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OP point out that OpenAI used the "too dangerous to release" marketing ploy with GPT-2... Positioning this as "both sides" have played this card. But at this time Dario was at Open…

If this is your cup of tea, it's worth reading about the Astor Place riots over Shakespeare performances in NYC

You are literally correct, but not engaging in the point. Meta shares in Scale are explicitly non-voting shares. Influence/control post minority investment matters as to whether th…

This post doesn't quite comprehend why Meta made a 49% investment instead of an acquisition. The path Meta chose avoided global regulatory review. FTC, DOJ, etc and their internati…

iPhone 1 launched without cut/copy/paste

Socratic by Google still exists today and is a widely beloved app based on reviews. They had to rewrite the code and infrastructure, but "killing off the app" implies that they jus…

The deck plus the OEM dock with mouse, keyboard and monitor makes for a nice, cheap Linux desktop that you can grab-and-go to play games. The dock is really seamless, always works …

echoes of United States v. Microsoft: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Cor... . would be ironic if Mozilla played the next Netscape

Creation layer of the stack: Unity or Unreal.

This is a clever twist on unbundling. Well done. Craigslist is misspelled (there is an "s" in it). Giving me a photo credit would be courteous as the author of that image. https://…

You're talking about Presense, which is the point at which your brain flips and is convinced what its seeing is real. Michael Abrash has a wonderful deck he wrote while at Valve ab…

Stephenson considers much of his position in "In The Beginning..." to be out of date at this point: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_the_Beginning..._Was_the_Com...

CSS (like all written works) is copyrightable, so if there is clear evidence that the CSS was copy/pasted, CB Insights would have a case on that basis. Damages would be negligible,…

Does this BS marketing PR stunt qualify Nature-published research papers for Gates Foundation-backed research now? Meaning: does this announcement qualify Nature as "open" enough f…

Neal Stephenson identified this same issue, and created Project Hieroglyph as his solution. They're about to release their first anthology of optimistic, progressive sci-fi short s…

A good complement to this set of challenges is Dan Boneh's Crypto class on Coursera. The coursera class is more theory-driven, whereas these challenges are more practical... they m…

I don't think the author jumps to conclusion prematurely. He hates all this factory, provider, blah, blah nonsense, and I can identify with the feeling. He is however guilty of lac…

I received a phishing email from the author. I guess he must have scraped my email address from a blog post I wrote about bitcoin and coinbase. While I am glad he has made attempts…

You need to read to the end of the post to understand PG's analogy. There is software that controls the charging rate of the battery that (if the claims are correct) could be funda…

Good summary of human being's advantage in the war. But don't forget bacteria's key advantage: iteration speed. Bacteria may be blind and and random in their micro-level behavior. …

Implementing the Trie (on paper, in C) was about 50% of my final exam on my intro to CS undergrad class at Stanford. We had never seen Tries befor that point, but we had done a var…