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It is interesting that the big selling brands are Skoda (VW group) and VW itself, then a resurgent Tesla in third place. These are companies that are claiming hardship from Chinese…

Both can be - and seem to be - true.

Likely your kids cars will drive themselves?

My experience - in the Nordics, but this is transferable - is they are also much nicer to own and drive. I don’t know anyone who went electric and then went back. The generation wh…

As soon as the competition is bankrupted they no longer need to release for free? It’s like how big players enter markets by launching at a loss to destroy competitors?

Rather than DSLs I’ve found careful force tools results force the same kind of discipline in a more straightforward way to implement. So it’s normal to ask the llm to answer only y…

For a lot of people it’s not the job that is rewarding it the role having a job gives them in life and home life. Financially contributing to the household through earning it throu…

Another ancient board game to be decoded is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Game_of_Ur . This is from 2600BC so is older to Christ than Christ is to us. The videos on the game …

This looks staggeringly brilliant. I was searching for something like this recently but ended up rolling my own using a block-based OT to local server and diff sync to remote ones.…

Countries can be repugnant in different ways, but the trust in their word is completely orthogonal. Can a country trust a trade deal with the US? Whereas when has China ever not ho…

This is not about whether being a customer of the us or china is morally worse. It’s about trust. Does any country trust America at its word any more?

I am a careful follower of politics and don’t think I’m ignorant. And on every point you made I could rebut with an example of America doing likewise. On your last point abour “cau…

As the US jerks from being BDFL to bullying zero summer, it’s not surprising that the abstract fears of china seem manageable compared to the new pressing fears of the US. Why as a…

Expect the US to sanction non-US-controlled models and put sanctions on individuals, companies and countries that use them? They already do this with other things like oil.

Beautifully written but when the lack of a better compiler gets attributed to rational actions my brain glitched. That’s not fitting my mental model of how big corps operate at all…

Middle managers were about making work legible https://www.seangoedecke.com/seeing-like-a-software-company/ Now that wasn’t the most efficient and it has a whole bunch of perverse …

This completely chimes with my own thoughts on this. In my mind a lot of AI adoption has been about AI Efficiency” - ICs using AI to do what they’ve always done with less effort bu…

Zigzag encodings are a common compression scheme used in the Parquet format. It is fun to speculate that these kind of tricks could be applied there in something so commonly under …

The articles and discussion around this and the Amazon story all seem to me to be an earnest tech press and community searching for a genuine reason for the administration blocking…

In my own multi agent framework I use cheap models to check the responses of the expensive models, as well as using multiple expensive models adversarially in debate. The cheap mod…

Yes context management is key. I do my own framework and spend a lot of time trying to debug this and it’s not so much the context size in hard numbers but rather the probability t…

For me turbo pascal - with inline assembly - was the pinnacle. I got into c and later c++ because I had to, but always found the symbols slightly harder on the eyes and surprisingl…

The real question as xAI has just made Musk a trillionaire is how this, the most recent blow in a fight between the administration and Anthropic, impacts Anthropic’s IPO. I’ve used…