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Apple sues OpenAI over alleged trade secret theft

techcrunch.com
9 points·by shadowtree·9 घंटे पहले·0 comments

The Future of Meta Superintelligence

newsletter.semianalysis.com
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There are a few things that I look back on as my mistakes in the early days

twitter.com
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Boom announces Superpower, a 42MW natgas turbine

boomsupersonic.com
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shadowtree
·परसों·discuss
Well, even Krugman has now acknowledged the need for tariffs: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2026-06-27/why-krugman...

Reminder, Biden, not Trump, introduced the first round of tariffs to protect domestic production.
shadowtree
·10 दिन पहले·discuss
It is legitimately impossible to purchase certain movies, especially classic, in any format due to regional blocks.

Simple example: "The Things of Life", a classic French movie from 1970. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Things_of_Life

No way to get it in the US. No physical media, no streaming. It is on Apple TV ... in France.

You can torrent it.

Utterly brokem model.

Music is the same btw, Apple Music and Spotify geoblock music. Workaround is to add to your library when traveling in EU. Insane.
shadowtree
·12 दिन पहले·discuss
Word of caution, I used Claude to read my MRI images too.

Looked legit.

Until I really dug in, and found that all it did was read the embedded annotations.

DICOM is a container format after all.
shadowtree
·15 दिन पहले·discuss
His latest thing was https://crazystupidtech.com/ - a joint newsletter with Fred Vogelstein.
shadowtree
·16 दिन पहले·discuss
Because that is where Carmack posted his thoughts, not anywhere else. Original source.

Wether you like it or not, X/Twitter is still a primary posting ground for many key people in our industry.
shadowtree
·17 दिन पहले·discuss
Political and personal attack, no substance.

Reid is a mega-donor for the Dems, Elon for the Repubs.

Billionaires fighting, plebs on HN getting riled up.
shadowtree
·23 दिन पहले·discuss
Lernen Sie Geschichte! -- Fred Sinowatz
shadowtree
·23 दिन पहले·discuss
It's a shame, as AI will improve healthcare on an unprecedented scale.

I cannot get a specialist without referrals and endless appointments to spend more than 30min to discuss how to fix a serious issues. Claude? Hours and hours of back and forth. Public models now beat the specialized ones like OpenEvidence. Source: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-026-04431-5

Diagnostics is getting blown apart by AI, the best cancer screening will be available in even remote corners of this world.

We were constrained by the available brain mass of highly trained specialists - and this bottleneck is getting removed.

Hard not to be optimistic on AI if you're in healthcare.
shadowtree
·पिछला माह·discuss
This is ahistoric drivel.

China and Russia are simple examples of the fallout of "cutting king's heads".

So awesome in China that they went straight back to a lifetime emperor now.

The French Revolution and its fallout (communism, fascism) killed more humans than any other historic movement, triggering 2 world wars, including numerous genocides.
shadowtree
·पिछला माह·discuss
Esperanto being created by L.L. Zamenhof ... a Polish Ashkenazi Jew. Full circle!
shadowtree
·पिछला माह·discuss
Lingua Franca, like literally. French used to be the language of diplomacy.
shadowtree
·2 माह पहले·discuss
Balko was a big proponent of police body cams, as they would clearly reveal massive police abuse and brutality.

Since the bodycam rollout however, we're inundated with videos of justified police actions, over and over again. Proving that most criminals are indeed retarded, unable to follow simple commands and escalate minor stuff into full violance, necessitating the use of force against them.

Balko now of course sees bodycams as propaganda or "copaganda".

Utterly biased "reporting", starting with an agenda and then trying to prove the point by any means possible.

Go Gary.
shadowtree
·2 माह पहले·discuss
Picket Fences was similar to that, an early David E Kelley show (after LA Law).

Some of that weirdness was then further carried over by Kelley to Ally McBeal and Boston Legal.

Utter products of their time periods 90s and early aughts.
shadowtree
·2 माह पहले·discuss
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·2 माह पहले·discuss
Odd omission on CRM. They have HubSpot for Campaigns, but basic management of your customers, installed base, sales alignments, opportunities ... nothing there.

SFDC announces "Headless CRM" and Anthropic is like meh.
shadowtree
·2 माह पहले·discuss
That is not what I wrote - there was no judgement, just that other cultures weigh cheating morally different.

It is all moralities. There is no absolute one.
shadowtree
·2 माह पहले·discuss
Moral code is downstream from culture and not every culture sees cheating as a moral failing.

As Princeton's demo skewed hard into a more international student body, the underlying cultural assumptions have shifted.

The Christian extension of the Ninth Commandment from not bearing false witness to a blanket ban on lying is unique. Islam has explicit exceptions through Taqiyya, Hinduism gets nuanced with dharma and adharma, Buddhism sees it as one of the ten unwholesome actions, ...

WASPs built and defined Princeton, but that is long over.
shadowtree
·2 माह पहले·discuss
Partisan, to the core.

How about https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-elim... ? Game changer for RWE. Not Science?

Or this one: https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-acce... ? A call for more research on certain compounds. Not Science?

I know the MSNOW daily hate machine is fun, so engaging and gives life meaning. But laying off the emo crack for a while would open your mind beyond partisan viewpoints.
shadowtree
·2 माह पहले·discuss
Here: https://www.fda.gov/news-events/fda-newsroom/press-announcem...

Good faith, bad faith ... does not matter. Decisions and changes are public record. Read for yourself.
shadowtree
·2 माह पहले·discuss
There has been a string of massive changes under the new admin.

Latest in this area: https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-laun...

“President Trump promised to accelerate cures for American families — and we are delivering, especially for children with ultra-rare diseases who cannot afford to wait,” said Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. “We are cutting unnecessary red tape, aligning regulation with modern biology, and clearing a path for breakthrough treatments to reach the patients who need them most.”

“This guidance is a critical step the FDA is taking to tailor our regulatory approach to patients with ultra-rare conditions,” said FDA Commissioner Marty Makary, MD, MPH. “It is our priority to remove barriers and exercise regulatory flexibility to encourage scientific advances and deliver more cures and meaningful treatments for patients suffering from rare diseases.”

Now, you can be caught in the fun partisan civil war on emotions or simply look at outcomes. Good work being done at the FDA, just fact.