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Ruliology is the nerdiest word ever invented, kudos to Stephen Wolfram.

Cutting QA on your core product is a very Boeing choice.

Polarization, reflecting the polarization in economics and politics?

I think that pure white (255) and pure black (0) should be using extremely sparingly. #FFFFFF? Why not #f6f6ef or #eceff4? Lower contrast can improve legibility, too much contrast …

That is a very Russian way of solving the problem.

If Microsoft Office is an AI app then Microsoft is the #1 AI company in the world!

Everything in economics always boils down to 1. supply and demand and 2. taxation. One can simply look at historical income taxes in the USA and their progressiveness and conclude …

Think about the world's poorest man, and how disconnected he is from the rest of humanity. Now think of the world's richest man. They are equally disconnected.

Not to accuse the Germans but politicians rarely protest lobbying when it involves bribes.

Musk's greatest achievements are in the field of financial engineering. I wish he could write a book about it, because it's the only part about his life that's remained invisible.

In the 1900s we called "control over technology" something else, I believe it was "seizing the means of production".

I think it's quite obvious why Lisa Su isn't motivated to financially crush her first cousin once removed. AMD is doing quite well in the CPU space and as such isn't even forced to…

Zen has replaced Arc for me nicely.

One of two legal outcomes must follow from OpenAI's piracy. 1. OpenAI must be fined according to law. 2. Piracy is decriminalized. Failing to do neither is an admission that the US…

Thankfully biology has redundancy, so a single cosmic bit flip does not send humans into a BSOD.

>"This is also why periodontitis and gum disease is a predictor for vascular diseases: Bacteria enter the bloodstream through inflamed oral mucosa and form plaques along the blood …

Preventative treatment for disease is ten, hundred, thousand times cheaper than treatment ex post facto.

They are complementary sensors. It's a much easier engineering feat to combine two (cheap) sensors that are good at different things and fusing this information than creating one p…

Absolutely. The goal of self-driving is to be better than human drivers. Even the best drivers struggle with the sun shining from low angles, or road reflections, or snow, and so o…

Camera vision and LIDAR perfectly complement each other. Camera vision is no good detecting unknown/outlier obstacles quickly and accurately. LIDAR is great at detecting unknown ob…

As a control engineer who knows something about sensor fusion - No LIDAR no ride. Musk can brute-force his unsafe robotaxis on the road but they won't be as safe as Waymo. Maybe pe…

Plant-based protein will not succeed as long as government subsidize meat production.

I've heard that catastrophes occur when three things go wrong (at the same time).

Resource inequality and thus wealth inequality is rather bad because one person is generally unable to allocate resources efficiently after a certain point of excess. Resource ineq…