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There was a project at Google Chicago to do something like that, around 15 years ago. For some reason, it was never launched.

What's this notorious backdoor?

There was a variant of this that occurred later. By that time there might not have been a dependency on Jeff's workstation anymore, but the DB, or at least one of its replicas, was…

Isn't HK under PRC control? The GFW might not be there right now, but who knows what happens over the seven years during which new Pixels are supported.

On the other hand, see the complete mess that are the IPU6/7 camera chipsets and their Linux support.

No, especially after congestion pricing, it doesn't get very busy. I assume the car was mapping the area and collecting background truth in general. Downtown and the financial dist…

We've been getting less and less of those, though. And even then, it's just for a few days. Last year was a bit worse, but two years ago it was very, very mild, I think. Yay global…

I think the problem in NYC will be getting medallions, assuming that's what self driving cars will need. There are already so many (too many?) taxis and car sharing drivers, after …

I saw one of these on Chambers Street just yesterday afternoon, but it must have been in manual mode, of course.

Unlike CRT screens, LCD ones from that time had usually a fixed resolution and wouldn't resize the image on the fly.

Why gorilla arm? This doesn't necessarily require lifting it. There's an old video around with Zuck doing gestures while walking and he starts with his arm mostly at rest. Even in …

None of that is announced yet, but there are two open source datasets for gestures and typing: https://github.com/facebookresearch/emg2pose https://github.com/facebookresearch/emg2…

The paper was just published in Nature https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09255-w (the preprint was out almost 18 months ago)

OMG. I was a fan of Telescript (and Obliq) at the time. I still believe that Java and the hype surrounding it contributed to the demise of mobile agents, although I'm sure that rea…

Maybe it's used to catch clones of the models?

Right, that's more clear cut with proprietary software, but what about open source code?

Does it apply to solo companies that provide software consulting to others? I guess it doesn't for S-Corps, because of passthrough, but might for C-Corps?

The hardware folks came mostly from outside SGI and were picked especially because they had worked on cheaper systems before.

Thorgerson and Powell ran Hipgnosis, which made a large number of the craziest and most memorable covers of the 70s/80s, not just PF. There are only three days left to watch the gr…

MarkMonitor has been around forever. It's used by many of the largest companies. I remember quite a few Google outages that could be tracked down to MM issues.

Over the months, I watched it three times in person at NYC Film Forum, then another couple of times during the 24h January stream. It's not AI and it's not just random clips, eithe…

True... I didn't make clear that I had tried to take a wild guess after reading only the first sentence in the abstract.

I would have guessed that the surge had something to do with faster payments, namely contactless and the wireless terminals. In a way, it's even broader than that: if you order for…

I always wondered if it's still alive only because Larry or Sergey use it every day.

This is the way Italians write, especially academics, translated into English words. Even in mundane, everyday documents the style has plenty of fillers and embellishments, unlike …