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Sorry. I was trying to keep things brief. Basically a drone that relies more on the camera and less on the accellerometer and the GPS. Although it still uses both a lot.

Mostly hardware. A cheap rowing counter. Competitive rowers use a training device that counts their strokes per minute. I figured out that the major parts are really cheap, even as…

That seems like a lot of conjecture based on very little evidence. The article doesn't mention why they're against data centers. The obvious alternative explanation is that people …

What's the solution to the heat problem?

Not impossible but I'm still curious how they're planning to deal with heat. I'd also wonder if the folks who don't want to live within 3 miles of a data center are OK with the dat…

I believe that China's deep answer to that problem is, "There are no just wars in the Spring and Autumn period. " There are some internal policy papers to that effect.

I'm curious how he would propose implementing this. The US could ban connections to foreign AI providers and force US providers to submit to audits. Presumably, Chinese providers w…

It's always about logistics. The Three Kingdoms War was one of the bloodiest conflicts in human history. It was largely enabled by the invention of the wheelbarrow.

I like Cursor but that valuation is a hard sell. Their valuation should be very closely tied to how how many tokens it takes to get from Void to Cursor. If those values diverge by …

You're essentially saying that privacy violations are baked into the cores of these systems.

It might not meet some pedantic definition of "Malware (tm)" but, for all intents and purposes, it fits perfectly.

Why not? It's a software feature designed to benefit Google at the expense of the user.

The obvious answer to behavior like this is warnings that escalate up to a sitewide ban. When a human is abuses a system, that human normally loses access to the system.

It seems that EVs and ICEs are sufficiently different that traditional car companies don't really enjoy nearly the encumbrancy advantage they once had. The top EV manufacturer star…

What if the framing were slightly restated? I view all three of these more as good advice than demands. As I see it, people ignore this advice at their own peril. It would certainl…

The nice thing about statistics and math is that you don't need to stop at a feeling. If doubt their math, do it yourself.

I still have my G-Shock from the late 80's. It has a crappy light, a quiet alarm, and limited functionality. But it's damn near bullet proof and I change the battery every few year…

I like this. It's an inversion of the old addage, "a poor craftsman blames his tools" and the corollary, "use the right tool for the job" (because a good craftsman chooses the appr…

Reading between the lines of the article it seems advanced but not too surprising. I assume that at night when it "withdrew to a covered location" there was opportunity for mainten…

Do you know if that's true of non-English models? As I said elsewhere, Deepseek injects Chinese characters into responses. Anecdotally, that seems to happen when the context gets l…

Deepseek will regularly spit out Chinese (汉字）during English sessions. They generally seem to be syntactically related but it makes me think that there's some overhead of using Engl…

There's certainly an interesting question here, even if Tokenstree doesn't provide a solution or even define the problem well. The broader questions are still interesting. If an AI…

I love the idea, in principal, but I think it's impossible in practice. A good strategist makes the outcomes of individual battles predictable. That makes it terrible for unit play…

Those videos are awesome! 3B1Bs visualizations finally made e^(pi*i) make sense. His videos on Euler's formula inspired me to make a silly toy so I could play with it myself. https…

Is IBM really the company we want to hold up as a moral standard? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_World_War_II