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I'm skeptical frontier LLMs can actually do well (e.g. alpha 5%+) without fine-tuning, especially on historical market data. Presumably you support fine-tuned models?

Sabine got her wish. DOGE cut NSF by 40%. Tons of scientists out of work including physicists. But she'll be ok, she only needs to pimp another ad for Brilliant.com

NASA's budget is 0.35% of the Federal Budget. The US Government spends the equivalent of 20 years of moon mission spending on ICE. They're spending 2x that on Iran war. They blew $…

I was in SF in the 90s this kind of talk is nonsense. Crime was far higher in SF back then, area near the stadium was a no-go area, there were open gang wars in SF on TV. Hell, go …

Because it is an externality. Capitalism works when there are property rights. Even educated libertarians admit that that which is not able to be given property rights must be subj…

Nothing to do with energy star. Modern Bosch Dishwashers use less water, wash better, and dry better, than your old 1990s washers. In the same way that people think low-flow toilet…

Those are applied-ML level advancements, OpenAI has pushed model level advancements. xAI has never really done much it seemed except download the latest papers and reproduce them.

What do you consider a proper security clearance? One emergency approved by the President on a whim, or one that is the result of careful vetting over a 6 month process which seems…

The issue isn't just Musk's clearances, it's the clearances of the employees he's giving access to. With stuff like Salt Typhoon out there, and reports of Musk's college age hacker…

Usually drug use, financial debt to foreigners, or any criminal violations can get you rejected for clearance, especially top secret, so the only way he has this clearance is becau…

You’re forgetting about 2 decades of US DoE funding of EUV research through EUV-LLC which ASML joined late. A lot of the early groundwork and foundational research was done by DoE …

Seems to me that what Andreessen was really mad about was the CFPB forcing his portfolio companies that committed consumer fraud to return money to their customers. He also lied ab…

No, he’s pretty much against them and makes a new excuse each time. He would claim that no vaccine ever has gone through enough testing. He also denied HIV causes AIDS, days it’s P…

I worked for Google for almost 14 years. Never did they, any other engineer, or even product manager I know of, ever suggest to snoop into cloud customer data, especially those usi…

Fake? Did they say anything non-factual? Seems to me they just chose to lead with the one new bit of information in the update since last time that is surprising and that people wo…

As soon as you mentioned Comax which has no safety record at all as an alternate you undermined your credibility.

The media has been nonstop attacked by the political right going all the way back to the 80. It started with talk radio. Before cable TV News was a loss leader mostly limited to ti…

He’s not running for office but he sure does seem to waste a ton of time arguing politics on Twitter and getting into public battles with people. I’d also argue he technically is i…

? AppleTV and Apple Music are not decades ahead of anything. AirPods are way better than the existing Bluetooth headsets that were on the market.

I wanted to see critics of Tesla, but I can't, because Musk has banned several accounts that track Tesla manufacturing defects, FSD crashes, etc. Jenn Senshiba even got banned for …

The rest of the industry doesn’t build dozens of ships in a massive assembly line. Blue Origin hasn’t even completed a single full test prototype ship yet. And if you go look at NA…

? Chrome shipped with a fast JS JIT, simplified UI, per-process isolation. Acting like you had to pay someone to perceive a superior user benefit to Firefox, which at the time woul…

What if the guy was using paper maps? If this was 30 years ago would paper nap publisher be liable? When you are driving, you’re responsible for being aware of the road. If you dri…

For more hilarity, a blog post I wrote in 2006 on currying in Java using CGLib tricks: http://cromwellian.blogspot.com/2006/07/fun-with-generics-an...

Hot take: If the Earth's core is Iron-Nickel, is it an Invar, and therefore, there's an effect too reduce earthquakes from expansion from heat movement being lower, or is the press…