To correct the phrase, "The Roman empire became a church. The British empire became a bank. The American empire became a data center." samim

Apropos gooning, the oft forgotten crime that led to Sisphyus' punishment of an interminable task was his original tricking and locking death away. It would be Ares, war, or Hermes, discourse, that would later release death again onto the world.

Companies selling the dream of autonomous household humanoid robots today would be better off embracing reality and selling “remote operated household help”. Have teams of employees running them 24/7, with the option to reduce their workload as autonomous behaviors become viable.

The reason we know Radiation causes bit-flips in DRAM is pretty hilarious. In the late 70s, Intel Ram was occasionally producing soft, uncorrectable errors. Turns out, the ceramic packaging on the chip itself had a little bit of Uranium. You know, as one does.

Tbh good deal

I believe CEOs have an unconscious effect on the behavior of their employees. The subtlest behaviors and values revealed by "the Boss" lead to their subordinate emulating and modelling the same behavior. Anyway....

we didn't want a smart tv, but there's no more dumb ones out of the box, it was so slow we joked it had north korean spyware joke's on us, it did a man in the middle attack compromised every device except, strangely, mine all because i'd bullied google into deleting youtube

Everyone's wondering if AI is going to reduce to a bust, some sort of Keynesian scheme that fences a quantitative easing, or lead to some revolutionary economic golden age of prosperity. I suggest we look to history for its obvious precursor: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth_Gen…

Startup culture feels very different these last few years. This analysis of the 'new' Y Combinator under Garry Tan's leadership highlights shifts: • YC founders are younger, averaging ~26 years old • More graduated from a top 20 university, now more than 50% • Massive

I guess its time to move on to shipping product.

Nature is Healing.

Seems like a great visual metaphor of something...

nothing works the vibe coded future is here

Today, we present a step-change in robotic AI Sunday. Introducing ACT-1: A frontier robot foundation model trained on zero robot data. - Ultra long-horizon tasks - Zero-shot generalization - Advanced dexterity 🧵->

Narrator: “Momentum was, as it turns out, not, in fact, a moat.”

Bidipta Sarkar github.com/d0rc/egg.c/blo… ~580 LOC in just C, training from scratch on Wikipedia just on CPU, all integers. Works like magic.

"The first step of any project is to grossly underestimate its complexity and difficulty." — Nicoll Hunt