Meta's AI models are powering the first wave of Genesis Mission projects

Post by [deleted] » Tue, Jul 21, 2026, 11:07 PM UTC

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> ReactJS has been a very mixed-bag... This is a very confused statement to be made, specially after the last decade where React established itself as the de facto way of writing any and every SPA. Is it yet another example of "there are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses."

> the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses The funny thing is that prior to 2015 "the ones nobody uses" were the academically-designed ivory tower FP languages; perpetually relegated to being a minority curiosity because FP is immensely difficult to wrap one's head around at first, especially if all you've-ever-known was imperative C or VB and (compromised) OOP in Java and C#. I remember when Google's…

Post by dgellow » Tue, Jul 21, 2026, 11:50 PM UTC

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It's so bizarrely run that it's hard to decide what counts as a "comparable outfit"? It's a Space company crammed together with several deeply unprofitable and embarrassing investment companies the founder bought as a part of a transparent grift to cover his mistakes and his only argument is a vague promise of "data centers in space", after over a decade of promising similarly ambitious things that have never happene…

When I think about how well or poorly an organization is run, some of the signals I look at are: a) ability to attract and retain talent b) ability to grow the company c) creativity and speed of execution On these three fronts it seems like SpaceX is run pretty well, at least above average.

Post by dgellow » Tue, Jul 21, 2026, 11:52 PM UTC

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Why do you think OpenAI is the prettiest? Claude often makes better looking interfaces and designs. And I think OpenAI has solved more open math/ stats/ CS problems.

Their text output often includes more emojis and seems formatted better. Also their image models subjectively looks better than the rest.

Post by dgellow » Tue, Jul 21, 2026, 11:56 PM UTC

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This is a really weird comparison. The Chan Zuckerberg foundation is nowhere involved with any war. All they’re doing is making money available for research. In which universe is $280m not enough?

When the people running it have a net worth of over $150 billion.

Post by davrosthedalek » Wed, Jul 22, 2026, 12:59 AM UTC

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As a former proposal specialist (B2B, B2G, non DoD) I looked into the Genesis Mission procurement site and process. Unless someone can correct me, the total amount of grant monies is $280,000,000 or so. It became obvious that it’s not worth my time to engage in the “mission” as they call it, even if I could benefit some worthwhile causes. That’s a pittance and pretty insulting to the purported benefit of funding scie…