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by billiam 3y ago
Don't know any particulars but the real problem here is the misaligned incentives that come from the rather incestuous relationship between founders, investors, and their friends in most companies steroidally pumped-up by VCs. What abo
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by billiam 3y ago
As the emails make clear, Musk reveals that his real goal is to use OpenAI to accelerate full self driving of Tesla Model 3 and other models. He keeps on putting up Google as a boogeyman who will swamp them, but he provides no real evidence
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by billiam 3y ago
The article is actually a great illustration of how far ahead of machine learning humans remain in their ability to collaborate and make intuitive connections (the AI contribution was minimal). Which LLM is going to say, hey this pattern lo
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by billiam 3y ago
Cheer up. It's not real. Generative AI is going to force us to confront what makes us human and the real world real, and learn to love it all over again. Sure, a lot of people will be lost in digital realms. Some might even like it. Bu
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by billiam 3y ago
I find creepy things in all the videos, despite their breathtaking quality at first glance. Whether it is the way the dog walks out into space or the clawlike hand of the woman in Tokyo, they are still uncanny valley to me. I'm not goi
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by billiam 3y ago
For all you founders and YC aspirants who build companies to get rich as quickly as possible: think of what this man achieved and the lives that have been changed by creating something built to last. By not extracting maximum labor from emp
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by billiam 3y ago
Nilay's video review is just fantastic-one of the best consumer technology reviews in written or multmedia form ever. Walt would be proud.
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by billiam 3y ago
Go ahead and read this book if you are fascinated by the psychology and character and life of Sam Bankman-Fried. I can't imagine a more boring subject--the man-baby is one of the most depressing public figures I have come across in my
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by billiam 3y ago
I’ve tried them a couple of times—sorry to say they’re trash. The middle tube can be under cooked while the frilly part is falling off and over cooked. Design schools and product management should teach this as a textbook example of design
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by billiam 3y ago
A great organization would like some help with some outstanding technical challenges that will help further their open source research mission. Some cool asks for image analysis and signals processing as well as managing large datasets and
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Bellingcat Open Technical Questions 2024(github.com)
24 points by billiam 3y ago|3 comments
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by billiam 3y ago
I envision a future where maglev trains whisk you to ice fishing.
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With revenue declining, Mozilla CEO gets a 20% raise(theregister.com)
384 points by billiam 3y ago|292 comments
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by billiam 3y ago
It's gonna be super useful to train on Uranus data to help with understanding exoplanets, since many will be like Uranus.
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by billiam 3y ago
The organization that gave the world Rust, Web Assembly, and countless other useful technologies is in a probable death spiral, and most of the blame goes to Mitchell Baker. If Mozilla was not primarily driven by greed and laziness, smart p
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Clearview Finds a Country that won't ban it(time.com)
2 points by billiam 3y ago|1 comments
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Gates-funded startup claims storage of carbon for 1000 years for $100/ton(washingtonpost.com)
3 points by billiam 3y ago|1 comments
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by billiam 3y ago
Russia has put a lot of effort into developing the ability to cut and disrupt as well as intercept undersea cables, so the increased dependence on Svalbard for satellite traffic is a control point all the interested countries should be look
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by billiam 3y ago
Entertaining stuff, even if it makes you seem a bit more crazy (but you know, a good kind of crazy). Rock on.
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by billiam 3y ago
I dunno, one of the slam dunks was the spectrum cliff showing vegetation. What if the energy production system on Planet X wasn't based on Mg-bearing chlorophyll? And plants have only been around for 1/7th to 1/4 of the plane
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by billiam 3y ago
Reduce 50% of all hospital deaths even moderately and I'd say you should get a Nobel prize.
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by billiam 3y ago
Huh? ERCOT might like the idea in the short run, but as the article points out the opacity of the mining operations actually makes forecasting demand and supply harder over time, since unlike 1 million houses in a heat wave the mines can ju
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by billiam 3y ago
If you grew up and still believe the only thing a daily comic strip is for is making you laugh, I truly feel sorry for you.
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by billiam 3y ago
It's a strange formulation. I think the point is that significant inputs of energy or chemical potential are needed to make chemical systems behave like biological systems in terms of the permanent, replicable changes that Darwin calle
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by billiam 3y ago
Was there. Baker has constructed (and deconstructed) Mozilla to provide her with money and power. Full stop. The Google search deal is an easy way to keep Brussels off Google's back. Any normal Board would have fired her many years ago
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by billiam 3y ago
Guess who owns the companies that bought the governments that subsidize coal production for the last century and a half? These hand wavy arguments about scale ignore the fact that the superrich and their ability to capture governance and po
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by billiam 3y ago
It's true it's not a monolith, but the loudest voices here have been against all union,s not just public sector ones. But do you hear that today? Silence. It's the sound of former well-paid engineers and other tech workers of
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by billiam 3y ago
He tries a little too hard to make gradual global changes more tangible (what does 930 Hiroshimas even mean?), but in general he does a good job of stating the obvious for us lunkheads. The developed world is nearly at civil war in large pa
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by billiam 3y ago
For those of you gathering Altman pronouncements to train your AltmanGPT model that spits out 100% disingenuous and self-serving quotage, here is what he said that is sooooo sensitive: OpenAI’s plans according to Sam Altman Last week I had
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by billiam 3y ago
That's what God thought too. Didn't stop Her.

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