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It's all if-then statements, like "If this video has a bird in it, then show it to people who like birds." No ML needed /s

Always cool to see new cloud GPU offerings, but isn't Lambda Labs' cloud offering roughly equivalent (in the case of V100s) or substantially cheaper (in the case of A100s)? https:/…

Let's say Intel takes the deal and trades some ownership percentage for some funds to build more fabs. Suddenly the US government has a multi-billion dollar reason to provide polit…

The government has an implicit return on investment for the entire economy, through the power to levy taxes. Why should the government own stock in specific companies? The only lik…

American education, health care and infrastructure industries probably shouldn't serve as a model for other industries

If there's some externality in the way that someone is using public air, like burning garbage in their backyard, then they should be expected to pay for it

Economies of scale don’t just have to be areas where unit marginal costs decrease as volume increases, they can also be areas where fixed costs dominate marginal costs, which is th…

I’m working on making robots to collect bottles and redeem the California refund value. Basically so you could bring your bottles to a big mechanical sorter, dump your bottles in, …