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GCP/Vertex, Firebase, Spanner, Waymo, Gemini + Nano Banana, Google Photos, TPUs, Pixel, Assistant, Google Fi, Taara...

1. He cites existing academic literature that is peer reviewed such as the link I provided. 2. If his claims are incorrect and poorly sourced, feel free to call them out. But his r…

Interestingly enough, strong corporate governance and independent directors do not produce better returns. This is a central point in Eric Rees's book Incorruptible. https://leeds-…

A friend of mine got phished and I did a teardown of the infrastructure components that were used to execute the attack, that executes a Browser-In-The-Middle attack with an encryp…

On licenses, what's your recommendation for best practice for an LLM co-authored project? Apache 2.0 or MIT seemed the best fit. UPDATE: On the play button, I found your issue; I h…

Working with Fable 5, a MacBook, and a Pixel phone, I built an acoustic transport library that is several orders of magnitude faster than existing SoTA open source options like ggw…

Mac Studio M3 Ultra: $5299 (+$1300) Oof. That and October delivery. I wonder if the intent here is basically just to signal to the market where the M5 Ultra Studio is going to star…

For human in the loop to be effective, the human needs to actually be performing some substantive action, giving real guidance and critique and pushback. If the human only ever acc…

That does seem to be the path Apple is following here. Have a local model that can answer most things and then have a fallback of cloud options when they request is too complex. Th…

This is their global headquarters. Yes, that appears to be the whole thing. https://www.google.com/maps/place/488+State+Rd+%231,+Plymout...

Fair, and I meant it as illustrative of partner depth generally rather than as a specific example around RAM.

And by "places orders" we mean "helps TSMC acquire plots of land on which their next facilities will be constructed" kind of level of scope, timing, and commitment.

Note that this is how the FAA has been doing its written tests for years: you go to a proctor test facility and through a metal detector. The entire thing is videotaped.

The only path to cool is through cringe. You can do it! I think a lot of people after a random compliment might be wondering if the other person is trying to get something out of t…

I think a reasonable proxy for "care" is genuine curiosity about who a person is, how they came to be where they are, what makes them tick, coupled with a general desire for positi…

I've got a Photos album called Keys.

My read on the book was "humans are really good at telling if you genuinely care about them or not and will respond well to that, so you should genuinely care about the people arou…

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The pricing models that are published on AWS' website almost certainly have almost nothing to do with the pricing models that are discussed behind closed doors for a $100 billion c…

Having just checked my child in for their doctor appointment, 90% of web software would be dramatically improved by using very boring best practices and readable and accessible web…

Netgear Orbi WiFi 7 nodes broadcast a Qualcomm vendor IE (8C:FD:F0) in every beacon that contains the parent node's MAC address. I caught a live star-to-daisy-chain reroute and con…

GPT 5.4 is the surly physics PhD post-doc who slowly and angrily sits in a basement to write brilliant, undocumented, uncommented code that encapsulates a breakthrough algorithm. O…