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This chart of free cash flow for the big tech companies should worry people: https://www.advisorpedia.com/media/media/2026/02/23/trailing... Somehow we've managed to turn software …

However, who will pay for the very expensive training if the ROI isn't there? Absent government subsidization, then likely the frontier models will be sold off to the hyperscalers …

Banning smoking from indoor spaces did in fact make it go away [from indoor spaces]. Actually, the analogy is compelling - an addictive habit that is pleasurable to the user, profi…

The key point I'm trying to make is that the shade structure or outer shell should be separated by at least 50cm, and in such a way that even the slightest breeze moves air though …

Great for low density single storey dwellings, not so helpful for medium/high density multi-floored residential.

But there is no airflow inbetween the outside and the building core - the panels are still part of the building itself.

Maybe we need shade structures - a shade above/around the building and detached so that air flows underneath and there are no thermal bridges to the building proper. Like you would…

Of course the tragedy is that the actual food had the 'AI' treatment years ago (in the US), the artwork is only now catching up.

I suspect it is a fair representation of the food you would receive - looks kinda like real food, but actually isn't.

the key comparison is variable reward . That 'triggers a surge of dopamine and creates highly addictive habits' [thanks Gemini!] LLM use for code generation does exactly that, some…

> and a few new tricks I discovered This right here. Any gambler would recognize that statement.

So... basically watching them set fire to money in realtime??

The EU is predicated on the pooled sovereignty of its constituent countries, as exercised thought the EU Council. Apart from a limited number of certain matters, any EU country can…

I went to look for a new phone about 6 months ago - everything was AI this, AI that, all the display stands made a big deal about AI (to the extent I considered a 2024 phone becaus…

*to billionaires but snark aside, society needs to have a big conversation (meaning political) about what is good and what is bad about what should really be understood as the 'con…

was this before or after Lisp's epiphany for lexical binding?

Following S.I. notation, we might have Tk for token, so kTk, MTk, GTk etc.

> Money doesn't appear out of thin air. In fact [fiat] money does appear out of thin air (well, created by banks when they originate loans) - and has to to support a growing econom…

So apparently grid forming or synthetic inertia can be provided electronically nowadays, but presumably it would not be too terrible to put a rotating mass in between the (e.g.) so…

1. Both costs (going down) and performance (going up) likely are, or will shortly, approach asymptotic limits. 2. CFOs are seeing the token spend on the bottom line, and are not ha…

Yes. As makers we tend to assume that the more that is made the better, and that simply by having lots of (shiny!) stuff we will get paid/honored/favored etc, whereas in fact often…

Banning online advertising would solve very nearly everything. Specifically, social media would die (and traditional media would get a new lease of life). An intermediate step woul…

Push up asset prices mainly - so locking poorer people out of (e.g.) home ownership. Money is not a tangible thing, you can't eat or drink it. Instead it is a signalling protocol f…

lack of new content from the internet will make them go out of date. Not just facts and figures, but (for example) new programming languages/techniques.