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by aanet 5mo ago
Kudos to @DHouston and co. for starting and keeping the company going. Somehow, in my mind, Dropbox is always associated with the classic HN comment [1] about "...you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting
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by aanet 5mo ago
This was one trial where I didn’t want either side to win
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Jury hands victory to Sam Altman in battle with Elon Musk over OpenAI's mission(theguardian.com)
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Life Without US Tech(ft.com)
7 points by aanet 6mo ago|3 comments
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by aanet 6mo ago
https://archive.is/20260511130608/https://www.ft.com/content...
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by aanet 6mo ago
Looking lovely. This looks like converting mel spectrograms to 3D
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TIL he's the brother of director Sir Richard Attenborough.
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by aanet 6mo ago
> Mark Twain once wrote, “Reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.” I never expected to field-test the quote personally. Hat tip to you, Sir! And glad to hear you are alive and kickin', and haven't lost your sense of humor.
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by aanet 6mo ago
too funny!
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by aanet 6mo ago
What a masterpiece, this article. BTW, if it's not already there, I encourage voting "Slop" as the Word of the Year. Along with its corollary: the "Slop Factory"
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by aanet 6mo ago
"A finance professor" = Aswath Damodaran, the most respected name in valuation.
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by aanet 6mo ago
Great post. Thanks for sharing. I always wondered why airlines were always running bankrupt… Now I know.
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The Roomba Guy's Second Act: A Robot You'll Want to Snuggle(wsj.com)
3 points by aanet 6mo ago|2 comments
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by aanet 6mo ago
https://archive.is/QJkNC
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Shivon Zilis Operated as Elon Musk's OpenAI Insider(wired.com)
4 points by aanet 6mo ago|0 comments
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by aanet 6mo ago
Fascinating. TIL the history of writing automation goes way back. Sounds like a lovely book, adding to my list Commenting here so I can come back to it.
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"Welcome our new robotaxi overlords"(ft.com)
2 points by aanet 6mo ago|1 comments
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+1000
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Gripping! Adding this to my tsundoku
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by aanet 6mo ago
> “I'm in sympathy with 99 percent of everything that he [Lerchner] says,” Mark Bishop, a professor of cognitive computing at Goldsmiths, University of London, told me. “My only point of contention is that all these arguments have b
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by aanet 6mo ago
Good for her. I hope more people do this. Celebs, of course, have the means/support to do this. But I hope non-celebs also do this. If nothing else, then to force the AI-industry to figure out how to share the $$$$ to the original cont
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by aanet 6mo ago
Not "A Man Behind AlphaGo..." but rather "The Man Behind AlphaGo..." On David Silver's Ineffable Intelligence startup and their $1 Billion (!) seed round (!!) His RL lectures [1] are quite popular [2] [1] https:&#x
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by aanet 6mo ago
Glad you took it in the stride... I wasn't trying to be harsh. TBH, I think it is worthwhile to build an app for yourself first. For a user base of n=1. You might have heard of the Barefoot Developer by Maggie Appleton[1], and also by
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by aanet 6mo ago
Congrats on the launch. Esp since this is your first one. Woohoo. Now, onto the real stuff. (Sorry, not trying to dim your accomplishment) The website is bare. No mention of what the app does. "A coach that knows you. Training plans
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Vision Banana Image Generators Are Generalist Vision Learners(vision-banana.github.io)
11 points by aanet 6mo ago|1 comments
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by aanet 6mo ago
Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20329
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by aanet 6mo ago
Utterly fascinating. I could play with this for hours. Reminds me a bit of generative images using basic shapes (triangles, ellipses, etc) by Fogleman [1] - but ofcourse this is different. [1]: https://github.com/fogleman&#x
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by aanet 6mo ago
Utterly fascinating to see how the Ace robot from Sony AI was built to play with and beat elite level ping-pong players. Video here: https://youtu.be/EH8kZDc7OLk?si=YAnQi-lWE28QIkVA A few things caught my eye: - Perception
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AI robot outplays humans in table tennis milestone(ft.com)
8 points by aanet 6mo ago|2 comments
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by aanet 6mo ago
Sony AI's "Ace" robot outperforms humans in table-tennis (ping-pong) Archive: https://archive.is/20260422165419/https://www.ft.com/content... Paper at Nature: https://www.nature

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