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making machines that make other machines @genfabco - rationalist, humanist, liberal, and friend of the future
When we put the world economy back together after this thing is over, I'd like the engine of it to be American/Canadian/British/Aussie robots, not sweatshops in undeveloped countries.
My first time viewing Yosemite valley from a mountaintop after days of hiking through the backcountry, sunlight peeking through the trees and illuminating endless acres of natural beauty, I said, out loud, “holy shit this looks just like Breath of the Wild”
At the beach I say man I love the smell of beach and my 11 y/o niece goes “me too it smells like a candle”
Welp
If we subtract Microsoft's existing $80b Azure buildout commitment and SoftBank's most recent capital injection into OpenAI how much new capital actually got allocated to this Stargate thing?
vs "we are working on Safe and Profitable SuperIntelligence. AGI is near. Engineers' days are over. Hiring for 500 engineers."
"we used Muon as an optimizer, tweaked it, and spent all our time building a data generation and validation pipeline. The rest is specific to our # of compute and specific infra + all best in classes that fall from it" waow
The starter home of a 19th century worker. Then we made them illegal to build and now that house is $1M+ and that worker instead has to live 45 min outside of the city, completely detached from the community he works in.
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Just made this with Veo3, prompt in replies. Hollywood is cooked
Colbert was never funny, surprised it took this long
Stephen Colbert had a succinct message to President Trump for gloating about the end of the "Late Show": "Go f*ck yourself." variety.com/2025/tv/news/s…
There are really 2 bitter lessons in AI. This is the second.
Post-WWII, the number of *global total deaths* did not surpass the record set in 1960 for almost 60 years, despite the world population more than doubling. It took COVID to finally break it. No points for guessing what happened in 1960.
Never ever trust a hospital system to behave ethically
how many people in this country have been murdered and harvested and who is going to prison for this
Hearing that Zuck just offered an AI engineer $200m and, after his work is done, the opportunity to be inserted into the metaverse as an attractive wealthy man who dates models, with no memory of his previous life.
Last month @AnkerOfficial recalled over one million power banks due to an unspecified battery manufacturing issue. We CT scanned 3 recalled power banks and 2 that weren’t recalled to see what’s going on inside. Here’s what we found…
'water is transparent only within a very narrow band of the electromagnetic spectrum, so living organisms evolved sensitivity to that band, and that's what we now call "visible light". ' (found via HN)
We need to stop calling it the MIC, it's the military artisanal complex.