.T. Greer and Nancy Yu conclude that China will try to offset mounting growth headwinds by investing more aggressively in leading-edge technologies.

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Hat tip to Kathleen for sharing this! ' Windstorm: The Legend of Khiimori' an upcoming horse riding game where you are a 'delivery person' (rider on the jam post road system?) in the Mongol Empire.
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So we’re at 15T tokens now, and even with extreme effort there is at most 2x-4x headroom on public data. Historically the jump between each model generation has required 10x training data, so new ideas are going to be needed soon

This is a fascinating way to compare human brain and AI capacity

Ludwig Wittgenstein gatecrashed John Maynard Keynes' honeymoon, and he wouldn't leave for six days

A thing people really do not understand about US companies fretting about their per-car EV losses stories is that this is almost entirely a spurious issue about the unique way US accountants treat certain types of R&D spending. 🧵

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The way you get a figure for the cost of an F-150 Lightning that is several times the value if all the components, labour and overhead that goes into the car is to divide your one-off 10-year R&D lump sum by the small number of cars being sold in 2024’s depressed market.

In this article for Jamestown China Brief, I document China’s strategy to enter the international aviation market with Comac's new single-aisle commercial aircraft, the C919 🧵

One rather strange event of the past ten days: like ~600,000 Australians, much of my retirement savings is with a superannuation (think 401-k) firm called Unisuper

Unisuper uses Google Cloud to store their data. Well, ~10 days ago, Google Cloud *accidentally* *deleted* *their*…