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Why even bother with such a small layoff? Is there a reason to not just dial up your attrition for a while?

Yes, Dario has publicly stated that models are already profitable if you exclude R&D for the next model. Even if that’s not true, given that hardware and software efficiency gains …

Does it matter if the author is a renowned expert in the field?

What does Blender do differently that makes it such a successful open source product? It’s powerful and pleasant to use. Even the release marketing page is beautiful and well-made.…

Okay, forget everything outside that field of view in your real vision. If you could crop your real field of view somehow to just the photo in question, then would it be as though …

Not the parent, but I relate to their experience. It depends on what you mean by “see”. It’s nothing like seeing with my eyes, and it’s nothing like dreaming. When I “see” it is ab…

Let’s suppose you have perfect recall. Pull up the image on your phone and look at it. Now close your eyes and imagine the image as accurately as you can. Is it as though you didn’…

I’ve interrogated people about this but can never get a straight answer. —— “So you can really see things in your head when your eyes are closed?” Yeah! “And it’s as though you’re …

It might be helpful for intuiting the structure of a program. Imagine if you had to read code all on a single line, with newlines represented with \n. I can get the feel of a piece…

Owning the user base seems like a huge strategic advantage.

I love my USB-C iPhone but Lightning was smaller and easier to plug in.

Tape a wire to the trackpad and hold the wire?

My primary email domain is a .me. Never have problems with web forms. It can be more difficult to communicate verbally, so when saying it to non-technical folks I preface it with “…

Every lucid dream I have becomes a nightmare. When I suddenly gain consciousness in a dream I begin to panic and the atmosphere turns sinister. The last time this happened it turne…

I can think of benign uses for lock picks and guns. What is the benign use of a secret exploit?

It definitely counts! I also didn’t realize the trip count was so high, that is very impressive. The diversity of geography may be critical, though. You can only drive the Embarcad…

My understanding is that Waymo is applying specialized centimeter-scale mapping and lidar to achieve superior results. In contrast, Tesla is using dumb cameras and just dumping boa…

I’m not sure about computing hardware, but Waymo absolutely has better sensors, yes. But it isn’t obvious to me that better sensors outperform better data.

No, the duality is: Waymo works any time, except where it doesn’t. Tesla works any where, except when it doesn’t.

The Waymo-Tesla duality is so fun. Tesla FSD already works everywhere, even on unpaved roads. It just doesn’t work as well as Waymo. Waymo works very well, just not in as many plac…

I can’t live without a bidet but the Tushy ones are no good - tight knobs and awkward spray angle.

I fall apart when responding outside the bounds of my training data, too. Does that imply I’m not thinking? This idea is often used to argue that LLMs will never be capable of nove…

Funny, but how wrong are they? I haven’t had the misfortune of using Salesforce, but isn’t it a glorified relational DB in the same way that Jira is? I know a few people at Notion,…

4o could already recover from hallucination in a limited capacity. I’ve seen it, mid-reply say things like “Actually, that’s wrong, let me try again.”