Lenny Bogdonoff
@rememberlenny
Optimist.
Internalized urgency, intensity and speed - sustained over time - is a force to be reckoned with.
“Poles and wires move energy through space. Batteries move energy through time” - @ZachBDell
“Norinco, China‘s state-owned arms manufacturer, operates a lab-grown diamond business alongside its defense operations, complete with its own jewelry brand.”
Gold rush mining claims were governed by ad hoc grass-roots democracy, often with the local saloon keeper serving as the district recorder.
“Everything is systems, and all systems have bottlenecks. We can have AGI which gives us infinite intelligence, but that only moves the bottlenecks.“ - @fchollet
Defaults for cloudflare block AI bots and normalize robots.txt rules
AI insurance is capitalism’s solution to AI safety risk. Put money behind the claims and incentivize a system to prevent runaway problems.
Insurance is an underrated way to unlock secure AI progress. Insurers are incentivized to truthfully quantify and track risks: if they overstate risks, they get outcompeted; if they understate risks, their payouts bankrupt them. 1/9
SolveSF is an incredible app that every San Franciscan should have installed. Just photograph any 311 relevant issue, and the app automatically identifies the relevant submission category, drafts a request, and notifies you when resolved.
On using AI for child rearing, by @jihiitea jihii.substack.com/p/87-observing…
“We will make electricity so cheap that only the rich will burn candles.” - Edison
Casually had lunch talking about nuclear power, submarines, and robots. 60yo woman interrupts us to share she worked on patents for the trident missile system and offered to share the manuals she has at home. Only in S.F.
TIL almost half of US residential transformers are older than me. On average, U.S. residential transformers are past the end-of-life date. New large power transformer lead times stretch 80-120 weeks.
Henry J. Kaiser - started a street-paving business at 16 - built a cement plant to meet demand - landed megaprojects like the Hoover Dam - pivoted to shipbuilding in WWII - opened the first West Coast steel mill - broke into aluminum manufacturing monopolies - drove fast boats -…
Carmack on AI’s impact on tooling
I think you are misunderstanding what this tech demo actually is, but I will engage with what I think your gripe is — AI tooling trivializing the skillsets of programmers, artists, and designers. My first games involved hand assembling machine code and turning graph paper…
In the late 1980s, Pepsi had the world’s 6th biggest navy - composed of 17 submarines, a frigate, cruiser and destroyer - after taking payment from the Soviet Union for delivery.
beautiful visualizations of memory storage systems (made in d3)
The final form of the three IO devices:
w3schools search referral traffic down from 56m->24m over two years
