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allow me.. the person is incentivized to view the events in that manner (ie works for or is associated with cruise/autopilot etc)...

the yuppie rich in sunny states have their EVs already. the poors need reliable transportation to get to their workplace to feed their families and pay rent

openai has a funding round in play and they need all the "attention" they can get. so expect more rumors of "AGI is around the corner"

nice analogy between the output of llms with stream of thought conversation - wherein statements are made off the cuff and possibly confabulated. as opposed to correlating statemen…

loved this article thanks ! do folks actually read knuth ? i thought his tomes were meant only for bookshelves -lol- -sarcasm-

i plan to cancel too after my free subscription period expires.

this rant is similar to the one on modern hotel showers published today. https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/travel/hotel-showers-nate-barg... (behind paywall) the designers of these thi…

guilty as charged.. but isnt the article addressing the likes of me ?

"car companies could design for repairability, but it's not a selling point and it is a way for them to claw back profits" agree 100%, there is little incentive for the car-maker+d…

just wait until the battery or motor dies on you, or you have to resell your car and no buyer wants to take on the risk of a used battery.

this is anecdotal but a friend who owns a tesla has had no repairs except 2 battery replacements - each of which would have been prohibitive out-of-warranty. A battery expert i spo…

why then is hertz citing high repair costs for EVs ? https://www.cnbc.com/2023/10/26/hertz-pulls-back-on-ev-plans... I dont think the assertion that "EVs have lower maintenance cos…

by definition, any public predictable signals (sustained edge) in stock price time series have been exploited already - thereby nullifying them.

no, but in other parts of the world, there is no sense that you will imminently a) change the world with some doodad gadget or b) be a millionaire by picking up a startup lottery t…

I guess we are at that part of the hype-cycle where the initial excitement is turning into doubt. At this point, the vested interests (ai-vcs, startups, ai-researchers etc) must un…

nailed it. i have been part of 3 hype-trains - dot-com, cloud, and now ai. missed w3/crypto. but, i havent such hype-trains in other parts of us/world.

ok, here you go. another slight tweak to a standard puzzle and it falls. btw, i am very impressed with how well chatGPT does on this puzzle thanks to the elaborate tuning that seem…

LLMs are failing on tasks as simple as this. you can call it a trick question but what the hey. "prove that there are no non negative numbers less than 3" Claude puts out this elab…

suprised that cs peirce is not brought into this debate. he provided a coherent (almost scientific) theory of consciousness - sadly, he remains a forgotten philosopher due to his f…

The output of many professions is bag-of-words emotional persuation. eg. politicians, consultants, sociologists, psychologists, writers, economists, tv talking heads, media in gene…

spooky AI taking over the world was FUD spread by those with strong vested interests. and to be fair, a many credulous tech-types and their VC handlers were goaded on by this misso…