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I'm working on an autonomous snow clearing robot: https://www.frost-e.com/ The basic idea is that instead of trying to solve the general case in robotics (ie, the humanoid companie…

They already do: https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen-robotsuite Nvidia also releases their Cosmos series models.

I honestly wonder what world folks like you live in. The US is currently at war, repeatedly threatening several other places and engaged in several costly trade wars. From my Canad…

There's been a massive change to public markets in the last decade and the retail path to making money seems to have closed. I made a some money on IPOs using a laughably simple he…

Well, the 90s were a time of liberalization/deregulation so definitely a moving target, but the monopolies/layer of mediation were held back by variety cultural, regulatory and leg…

Here's a view that I've not seen AI/DC proponents engage in (for example, Carmack's recent pro DC post) AI is an exciting and promising new tech, much like the web/internet in 90s …

Restricting access to guns is actually a pretty mainstream thing in most of the world. I wonder if he'll ever realize that his silly definition of "freedom" is precisely what enabl…

I ran across this two-part interview with Yann Le Cunn and I thought it gave a pretty good broad overview/background into JEPA: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYkIdXwW2AE

Lol, this is so Q2. Today you need the LARP Orchestror to spin up a dozen SubLARPs, then hook them up to an external ledger verifier so you can run them in a Enron loop.

I clicked expecting Bane Proctoring, where Bane monitors your exam and if he catches you cheating...

Here's an answer for you: we need a new temperance movement. Sounds pretty ridiculous at first, but that's because people know little of the temperance and progressive movements of…

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It's dreadfuly simple - Bluesky users can choose what content they want to see - including selecting feeds, algorithms, moderation services etc. This situation is intolerable to pe…

This is a good observation, because this tactic is a hallmark of Putin and authoritarianism in general. What he does just lie about something where he knows it's a lie and the audi…

Honestly, are people not getting what's going on? The US is turning into a personalist regime, there is no "government" per-se, there's a dude. There are no 'rules' there's only th…

The problem is not the technology but the size and dominance of the tech sector. Current AI is a promising new technology that can do a lot great stuff, just like the internet and …

Disclaimer: I'm a robotics noob, but I've been working on robotics for a few months now. I'd say virtually all robots you've seen in the real world today rely on classical approach…

In a chatbot, 17k tok/s is a neat but nearly useless showcase. In a coding agent it is a meaningful improvement. In robotics, it could be an absolute revolution. 8B models aren't u…

No, that's a Mercedez EQE. MB is the launch partner for nVidia's alpamayo-based autonomous efforts.

People in the immediate future will be far less happy simply because there are enormous resources being spent to make them so. The world's first trillionaire spent the day he becam…

I think you are misreading this situation. The Musk-Thiel cluster, of which David Sacks is a major member, is one of the main groups trying to destroy the rule of law and turn the …

Yeah, afaik the approach people take today is always some form of bi or tri level hierarchical control, with a slow LLM doing planning and sub task management and diffusion or VLA …

Yes, obviously. People really need to update their priors on how the US operates now. Laws are out, loyalty is in. There is an extraordinarily powerful unitary executive in whom th…