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Wow - Google does not even bother to show benchmarks of these models compared to the frontier and Chinese labs - only against previous versions. I'm not surprised. Having worked th…

Google never sold through their first production run of Chromebook Pixels. Will prediction markets take bets on when will end up at https://killedbygoogle.com ?

It's never OK to physically attack someone like this. Full stop. Separately; Sam's belief that "AI has to be democratized; power cannot be too concentrated." rings incredibly hollo…

“ It is named after one of its developers, Dick Pick.[2][3]” you can’t make this stuff up!

This sounds like an incredibly foolish expedition. They took a boat to sea without practicing basic seamanship procedures (person overboard drills), an inaccessible life raft, and …

Money helps, but it's neither necessary nor sufficient. I've been at a company that many considered to have excellent design and that received a lot of attention here (Heroku). The…

Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir (author of The Martian) goes into the relativistic effects as well, and it includes a crazy (made-up) fuel that could make it possible. Great easy re…

Thanks for posting the PG wealth tax article. It is a highly flawed analysis. First wealth appreciates over time. So if your wealth appreciates at 15% / year, and the govt. taxes i…

Yes, that is the correct term.

Is it the longest known exposure ever, or longest ever with a beer can?

Plus of the 10% of the shares soldo, most were to institutions with an understanding that they are going to hold it "long term" (i.e. which may be just a few months). Part of the I…

It is a misconception that when a company IPOs and the stock pops, that the delta is money left on the table. The vast majority of the shares are sold to institutional investors. T…

PM for GCP buildpacks here, AMA.

This isn't the correct way to model wealth tax's effect on founder equity. Paul's model doesn't account for the changing value of equity over time. When a startup was at the seed s…

I was expecting URL parameters "Famous_company" and"Hyped_technology" to substitute in the text.

I saw someone do this with the plug to a laser printer once. The toner literally exploded in his face when he plugged it in.

I'll post the example source code here tomorrow after the talk (still tweaking it).

I'm doing a talk at Next tomorrow about just that. For now you are probably better of using Ruby on App Engine, assuming you need to use redis as a cache. Another new feature that …

Spoiler alert. Sign up for the alpha by requesting to join this Google Group: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/appengine-standard-r...

Hi. I manage App Engine (the original "serverless" product at Google). This is a very understandable concern, given the importance of having a platform on which you can rely. Contr…

Hi. I'm the PM at Google Cloud on the Second Generation runtimes. This is based on gVisor ( https://github.com/google/gvisor ), but it does not use the ptrace sandboxing that is in…