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If the leading model companies aren't profitable long-term, how do we get the money to continually spend on more research and more compute? I get that plenty of people don't like b…

Why?

I think the funniest part is the username. The_Blade, which I can only assume is a reference to this: https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/5cll43/while_you_wer...

Could you write several paragraphs on this? I'd appreciate reading it.

Let's say you want to make a hybrid car lighter-weight. Where is this useful? Power density and cycle life are truly impressive. Energy density is super low

Google's research team invented the Transformer Architecture at the center of LLM "AI". A huge invention. California has added roughly 17GW of grid-scale batteries in the last five…

Yes. The utilities want every household to pay them every month. Here in California, PG&E has a "base service fee" of $24/month. That you owe even if they sell you no (as in ZERO) …

Oh, I would far prefer to own Anthropic's stock than SpaceX's.

Why is "ai-big loss"? My understanding is that the S-1 showed a Q1 loss of xAI of $2.47 billion in Q1. But with the Anthropic Colossus-I rental agreement at $1.25B/month or $3.75B/…

If you're curious, why this scenario hasn't panned out. I'd highly recommend you read: The Triumph of the City https://www.amazon.com/Triumph-City-Greatest-Invention-Healt...

Best part is no part

To be clear, this is not a power-point program but a continuation of a long-standing design work with Bell. Two articles that cover this in depth are: 1. Revised Fold-Away Rotor Ai…

Awesome article. Please read the entire thing. Gary takes a well-deserved shot at the US false use of "third‑worldification" as a stand in for "our own low-trust society". This cra…

The UV light source that ASML uses for its lithography machine is technology that was acquired in the 2013 acquisition of San Diego-based Cymber. The tech stack for the advanced li…

All sound will end up as heat.

Or, we could study why public infrastructure costs radically more than the US, than other countries, then change our laws and both save billions of $ and have great new public tran…

Is there a non-subscription link to read on this? (Note: My comment below is without reading the article.) Honestly, to me, one of the most exciting aspects of Lip-Bu Tan as CEO of…

Well, I want more multifamily housing (apartments or condos) to lower prices in good cities near pubic transit. So let me propose: a wealth tax on land! ("Georgism"). But not a tax…

I have YouTube.com and X.com IP blocked on this computer for exactly that reason. Because I noticed I have zero self-control with the short-term video format. So now I don't touch …

It's a great question. Here are two Paul Graham (PG) quotes on Sam Altman (Sama) from 2008 and 2009. Note, PG is the founder of YC, Sam's former boss, and the one who removed Sam f…

Because, to quote your comment, "their customers are mostly unsophisticated." And, part of the appeal of the product, is they only pay out if *all of them are in the money. Hence t…

Well, if 2/3 of SpaceX's current launches are for Starlink (which deploys satellites in LEO), isn't a two-stage, fully reusable vehicle optimized for LEO deployment the thing Space…

Given that renewable power power is self correlated (all the solar panels are producing at once - or they’re not, all the wind turbines are turning at once - or they’re not) - rene…

What an insane article. It's almost like he hasn't read Eric Hoffer. Mass movements arise when populations, that had had large increases in living standards, find their living stan…

We control nuclear proliferation by making enriched uranium (U235) very, very hard to acquire. While I'd love to see more nuclear reactors in our society. The "nuclear everything" …