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by xnx 3mo ago
Agree. Like many movements, "urbanism" stopped being about safe, convenient, affordable transportation and became primarily about catering to anti-car absolutists and self-promotion.
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by xnx 3mo ago
This is a clever talking point from Uber that doesn't get the same attention for any other nationwide company. Restrict Walmart, Home Depot, McDonald's, Verizon, Apple because they're taking money away from mom and pop: groce
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by xnx 3mo ago
Yes. I'm not privy to any real insider gossip, but I read all his tweets and watch all his public speeches. He made an offhand comment about the TPU naming. I probably overinterpreted that, but I took it as a sign. There should have be
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by xnx 3mo ago
Hopefully the positive buzz will spread to other cities where Uber and train-transit special interests are blocking it and everyday citizens will demand the cool service the experienced in another city.
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by xnx 3mo ago
Definitely. Waymo is aiming for 1 million rides/week by the end of the year, and their last publicly shared number was 500,000/week. They're consistently expanding on all fronts: more cities, more territory, more vehicles, mo
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by xnx 3mo ago
They're definitely "down", but by no means "out". They're probably back in another "code red" and will need to deliver something leading edge in some area next. My bet is that Google will be the first
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by xnx 3mo ago
Agree. Demis is very smart, but obviously less humble and more interested in self-promotion. There have been multiple Deepmind documentaries that mythologize the Demis origin story.
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by xnx 3mo ago
Behind, but not clearly "far behind". Next model release from any major player could shift the leaderboard again.
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by xnx 3mo ago
Absolute download numbers are a pure vanity metric. Relative download numbers compared to other models tell you a little bit.
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by xnx 3mo ago
Being right at the wrong time is indistinguishable from being wrong.
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by xnx 3mo ago
Yes. In public relations you never want to trickle out bad/concerning the news, you want to "rip off the band-aid and preferably follow it up with some positive/distracting news like 3.5 Pro model release or price drops.
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by xnx 3mo ago
Yes. The web is enormous, but just think of home much information within a company doesn't even make it into the internal knowledgebase, let alone anywhere public.
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by xnx 3mo ago
2.5 was recently released https://antigravity.google/changelog
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by xnx 3mo ago
Title says "2.0", but 2.5 just came out: https://antigravity.google/changelog
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by xnx 3mo ago
Flock doesn't kill people. Cops do.
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by xnx 3mo ago
> This is the big problem with mass surveillance as a whole. With enough time, they'll find some pretext to bring you in, even if the original crime they want you for is weak. This sounds like a problem with an unaccountable police
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by xnx 3mo ago
I wonder if we'll ever know the story of Gemini 3.5 Pro. Is it possible Google saw its potential for hacking, tried to nerf it, and ended up ruining the training run?
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by xnx 3mo ago
Data centers, TPUs, customers, data streams, more money than god, most mature crawler system
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Jeff Dean(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by xnx 3mo ago|1 comments
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by xnx 3mo ago
As always, a very good presentation.
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by xnx 3mo ago
I've seen tiny tiny hints from the outside that Jeff Dean was dealing with too much internal BS. Two examples that come to mind: Having to deal with Timnit Gebru fiasco, and even chips in the TPU series getting marketing names (Trilliu
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by xnx 3mo ago
How is the company not "all in" now? Google is going to spend $200B on AI buildout this year.
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by xnx 3mo ago
OpenAI and Anthropic have the freedom to do absolutely insane things like negligently hack other companies. It would be stock price suicide if anything even remotely happened with Google.
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by xnx 3mo ago
AI is critically important to Google, but there's a lot more to Google than just having a frontier AI model. Do Demis skills line up with what the whole company needs? It's going to be tough to beat Sundar's 1200% increase in
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by xnx 3mo ago
> Lastly, after an incredible 27-year run, Jeff Dean is at a moment where he wants to try something new, and we’re excited to support him in that. Jeff and Google Senior Fellow Sanjay Ghemawat are launching an independent public benefit
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by xnx 3mo ago
You're right. I remembered some headlines about road salt usage and took them at face value, but the long-term trends are not clear.
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by xnx 3mo ago
> I don't really use those roads anyway. If you live in the US, you use roads. Every physical product you buy is transported by road at some point.
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by xnx 3mo ago
Came here to say this. I like that a small car is easy to park and safer in isolation (better stopping and handling), but do not like how they hold up against drunk/distracted drivers in 6000 lbs. SUVs.
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by xnx 3mo ago
> I've been to places where the public transport was operated by microvans with as low as 12 seats. Right-sizing the vehicle is smart. Why not also allow 4 person buses that run on demand to and from any point?
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by xnx 3mo ago
I think you'd want them a lot less if you had to pay the full price in fare (often $30+/ride)

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