sending good wishes to the firefighters and first responders.

I'm tremendously heartbroken watching the fires encroach onto Lick Observatory. Fires are pushing closer to the telescope domes. Lick is the first mountain top observatory in the world (1888). It's truly a wonder of the world and national treasure.(Personnel are thankfully safe)

If you want to see if an F-16 pilot can beat an AI-based pilot in dogfighting, DARPA is about to kick off the finale of its Alpha Dog contest, like any moment now. youtube.com/watch?v=NzdhIA…

Home to glorious redwoods, California's first state park is gone .. "We are devastated to report that Big Basin State Park, as we have known it, loved it, and cherished it for generations, is gone. .. We feel like we have lost an old friend. "

Unprecedented amount of smoke in the atmosphere as a record number of acres burn across California & the West. From space, you can't even see karl the fog & the marine layer as the smoke extends well out over the Pacific. #CAwx #CAFires #Smoke #BayArea CAL FIRE NOAA Satellites

Stripe + Shopify are building such interesting retail listing and checkout experiences - I really wish the beauty and wellness markets adopted similar!

Chip Huyen has put an incredible amount of work into consolidating current ML roles, companies, processes, interviewing and hiring. A super go-to primer for students looking a ML career huyenchip.com/ml-interviews-…

One thing that's so unique about current use of LLMs is that application logic is being abdicated to them. I can't think of any other time this has happened. Normally infrastructure moderates resource usage, not logic and correctness.

This is an incredibly important point by martin_casado - something that very few people understand/appreciate. In traditional software development, infra & application logic have distinct roles. Infra provides the underlying resources (such as servers, databases &

Link: every.to/thesis/how-to-…

In the context of AI, a lot of the old "wisdom" on moats, pmf, speed, are all coming off their hinges. Jeff Bezos talks about addressing the constants - go after things that don't change. What are some of the constant intrinsics founders can rely on? A big one is instinct -