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26 days agodiscuss

Some of the talent at Cursor is second to none. E.g Less Wright, Sasha Rush, Stuart Sul.

Google paid 2.5B to bring Noam back into the fold in 2024 ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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last monthdiscuss

The guy who uncovered this, Sholto David, is basically just awesome?

Watch him cycle from Wales -> China in 90 days: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdgHZPfivVA

This isn't his first fraud rodeo either. For his discovery of serious fraud by the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in 2024, he received $2.6 million.

Be more like Sholto, exercise your free will!

FL33TW00D

2 months agodiscuss

Anyone have recommendations on books that can rival the first part of Accelerando in number of prescient ideas about how the near future, pre singularity might look?

My own list is:

  Starmaker by Olaf Stapledon
  Counting Heads by David Marusek
  Nexus by Ramez Naam
  Rainbows End by Vernor Vinge

But I'm always on the look out for more! The more predictive the better!

FL33TW00D

2 months agodiscuss

Hasn't fMRI as a whole been called into question? https://www.nature.com/articles/s41593-025-02132-9

FL33TW00D

3 months agodiscuss

In a country with a national health system, why should you be able to internalize the benefit of smoking whilst externalizing the cost?

FL33TW00D

4 months agodiscuss

Why ruin good work by letting Claude write it all? Full of em dashes, riddled with Claudisms.

FL33TW00D

4 months agodiscuss

Unreadable Claude slop

FL33TW00D

5 months agodiscuss

This was mostly down to enormous pressure from his father, causing him to have a breakdown in his early twenties.

Not to say the results weren't incredible, but certainly required sacrifice.

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/10378/10378-h/10378-h.htm#li...

FL33TW00D

5 months agodiscuss

Completely false: https://x.com/i/status/2019213765506670738

Listen to the statement.

The operators help when the Waymo is in a "difficult situation".

Car drives itself 99% of the time, long tail of issues not yet fixed have a human intervene.

Everyone is making out like it's an RC car, completely false.

FL33TW00D

5 months agodiscuss

How many of these are due to going outside the normal envelope of what birds do?

FL33TW00D

5 months agodiscuss

It takes a different code path for efficiency.

e.g

if (batch_size > 1024): kernel_x else: kernel_y

FL33TW00D

5 months agodiscuss

But why is FSD "failing" is the key question.

Hint: it's not the sensor inputs that are the bottleneck!

FL33TW00D

5 months agodiscuss

I like the comparison, but with aviation on a fundamental level we made it simpler (removing actuation), not added more (senses we dont need)

FL33TW00D

5 months agodiscuss

How can you say camera only navigation won’t work with such finality when humans manage just fine every day! You literally have an existence proof of it working.

FL33TW00D

6 months agodiscuss

I love this, the interday variability in my intelligence is extremely annoying.

FL33TW00D

7 months agodiscuss

Mr Kwok already analysed these deals and gave them a nice little acronym: HALO

https://kwokchain.com/2025/07/15/the-halo-effect/

FL33TW00D

7 months agodiscuss

He did not "create" the TPU. He contributed to the creation of the TPU.

There are 66 authors on the original TPU paper: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3079856.3080246

FL33TW00D

7 months agodiscuss

He went from being unable to eat many foods, to eating a full cheese pizza on camera. Pretty sure it worked.

FL33TW00D

7 months agodiscuss

The paternalistic state does not allow you autonomy over your own body.

e.g the amount of backlash thought emporium got when he genetically engineered himself to remove lactose intolerance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3FcbFqSoQY

Risky, but it's his body!

FL33TW00D

8 months agodiscuss

Very interesting data point

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