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by gradus_ad 7mo ago
Waste and inefficiency is real. As unpalatable as it is, cleaning up the mess of decay often requires brutal methods. That begs the question, is waste and inefficiency socially undesirable? Maybe not. Maybe not on certain scales or in isola
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A Drosophila computational brain model reveals sensorimotor processing(nature.com)
3 points by gradus_ad 7mo ago|0 comments
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by gradus_ad 7mo ago
Agree. The plausible sounding but kind of vacuous reasoning is one tell. Also the patterning is very LLMish.
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DJI will pay $30K to the man who accidentally hacked 7k Romo robovacs(theverge.com)
4 points by gradus_ad 7mo ago|0 comments
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New iron nanomaterial wipes out cancer cells without harming healthy tissue(sciencedaily.com)
322 points by gradus_ad 8mo ago|107 comments
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Just two days of oatmeal cut bad cholesterol by 10%(sciencedaily.com)
106 points by gradus_ad 8mo ago|100 comments
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by gradus_ad 8mo ago
Poll: are you boycotting because OpenAI is working with a military, or specifically because it is working with the US military?
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A tour of Pompeii as it was just before its destruction [video](aeon.co)
3 points by gradus_ad 8mo ago|0 comments
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by gradus_ad 8mo ago
These very valid points apply to all companies trying to make money off of proprietary models, which means margins are going to collapse in a vicious price war that will make Uber vs Lyft seem tame. As margins collapse capex will collapse.
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The Hater's Guide to Anthropic(wheresyoured.at)
37 points by gradus_ad 8mo ago|8 comments
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IBM Plunges After Anthropic's Latest Update Takes on COBOL(zerohedge.com)
113 points by gradus_ad 8mo ago|106 comments
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User gains control of over 6,700 DJI robot vacuums with help from Claude Code(tomshardware.com)
2 points by gradus_ad 8mo ago|0 comments
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by gradus_ad 8mo ago
I will admit, one thing the crowd attention model does exceptionally well is surface the best comments on content. Whether it's HN, Instagram, YouTube, etc... the top comments are usually the "best", depending on how best is
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by gradus_ad 8mo ago
It's a particular phenomena that results in semantic change, but just dismissing it as drift misses the interesting dynamics at play.
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by gradus_ad 8mo ago
It is fascinating to observe the concept of protest, like so many other concepts recently, being hijacked and misappropriated to mask something else entirely. We have a particular conception of the term, what it implies, what it evokes, yet
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Nvidia is in talks to invest up to $30B in OpenAI, source says(cnbc.com)
2 points by gradus_ad 8mo ago|0 comments
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A Global Web of Chinese Propaganda Leads to a U.S. Tech Mogul (2023)(nytimes.com)
2 points by gradus_ad 8mo ago|0 comments
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by gradus_ad 8mo ago
The whole pivot to Optimus is insane. I can understand the market following Elon down all the other paths he randomly skips down but Optimus... Really?? The only way to explain it is it's not being taken seriously but Elon seems to be
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by gradus_ad 8mo ago
I mean just because it's easier to write software doesn't mean you can't have success building a business around software. You'll just need to build more features at a higher level of quality. When everyone has access to
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Interactive map of datacenter locations across the US(businessinsider.com)
1 points by gradus_ad 8mo ago|0 comments
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Artificial Analysis AI Trends(artificialanalysis.ai)
1 points by gradus_ad 8mo ago|0 comments
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by gradus_ad 8mo ago
> OpenAI spends time and money building a slack competitor, because they've apparently run out of good ideas > Slack uses AI to improve the existing product > Slack is still marginally better, so businesses continue paying for
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Just 5 weeks of brain training may protect against dementia for 20 years(sciencedaily.com)
25 points by gradus_ad 8mo ago|3 comments
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LLM Reasoning Failures(arxiv.org)
1 points by gradus_ad 8mo ago|0 comments
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by gradus_ad 8mo ago
Existential? Maybe to beachfront property owners
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Waymo gets intervention from workers in the Philippines(futurism.com)
2 points by gradus_ad 8mo ago|0 comments
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Sam Altman Responds to Anthropic Ad Campaign(twitter.com)
65 points by gradus_ad 8mo ago|37 comments
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by gradus_ad 8mo ago
One problem with centrally produced and distributed software is that a small subset of users demanding certain features results in feature bloat for everyone. Costs for all features are shared by all users. Probably one way SaaS companies w
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by gradus_ad 8mo ago
So... You're lying about having a health condition in a loud and obnoxious way? Not sure what the point is. Just because you can get around TSA checkpoints doesn't mean it's not "about" security. There's only s
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by gradus_ad 8mo ago
Help me understand something. We make 1 TW of cells per year but we're struggling with bringing 1 GW consuming data centers online?

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