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This race was never going to get to AGI, at Google or anywhere else, and it appears that Google knows that.

A few points: 1) the simplest explanation whenever a bunch of people leave [x] at a company at the same time, is that [x] is becoming less important to that company moving forward.…

FYI, the governor is Republican so you might be surprised/suspicious that he would be halting approvals. However, Gov Abbott had a political near-death experience a few years back …

"The end result is a peculiar version of Hollywood: a place increasingly devoid of physical production, populated instead by executives, AI art, and unpaid interns drag-racing golf…

I mean, we all remember the cases where it was true, but do you really think most people think they are good at computer programming? Or speaking Russian? Or playing the harp? Or g…

Not the least, I think! Appliances, computers, and especially clothing do have other manufacturers (some in Mexico, some in India). Semiconductors are among the most concentrated m…

'...when this all falls apart, I genuinely think there's going to be an authority crisis where people look at the media and go, "Hey, why did you believe every insane thing said by…

So, some of the capital invested due to the AI boom may be for stuff like buildings, energy infrastructure, and other long-lasting stuff. I am reminded of all of the spending done …

Great stuff! Great! However, the issue is not, and has likely never been, that young people aren't willing to believe "they can do that". It's that most people, of necessity, are n…

In various places and times in the past, otherwise rational and successful people had all sorts of odd religious (or other ideological) beliefs, that caused them to do odd things. …

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Might be worth trying live yogurt in the meantime, per the article?

That is a general truth of most ML; many models _can_ find the information in the data, if the data is good enough. If it is not, then likely no model can.

Several instances of both. In at least one case they told us that they wanted to rent to a big-name tenant at a larger space in the same complex, before they started renting any of…

Oh my goodness, thank you. My wife had to move her store in 2020 in the midst of lockdown; you'd think rents would have been low, but no. Since then, many of the places that wouldn…

It seems to me he contradicts his own thesis here: "The boring truth is that expertise in most subjects is largely a matter of having an enormous library of knowledge and skill. Fo…

True that, but it could be both cause and effect. There are reports that gut bacteria can induce depression, which benefits the bacteria because it sends more calorie-rich, highly …

Working on a framework for factory management systems.

Do they mean, the moment when everyone realizes it's not as useful as they at first thought?

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