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What is wrong with these people?

What makes a bad kid bad, and a bad parent bad? I can imagine a bad kid is an unruly/misbehaving kid, but not sure what it means for a parent to be bad.

And winter is coming

My opinion is that Microsoft’s software business practically goes to zero in an era when anybody can vibecode changes to open-source projects to fit their exact needs. All that will be left of MSFT is Azure.

My follow up opinion is that Satya agrees with me, and that is why he has so much anxiety around AI.

From the article itself, sounds like it’s an open problem that they are experimenting with:

“ We’re working on a number of different approaches for this, including a combination of heat pipes and radiators to cool the chips. So far, our team has tested the technology in a thermal vacuum chamber that simulates both the thermal and vacuum environment in space. We’ll see how our new TPU cooling system works in space and refine our designs as we learn more.”

Oh they don’t have this data degradation problem at all. They have large data curation teams that scrutinize the “data mix”, ensures the model is always performing better.

The article mostly cites the huge growth in blue-collar jobs caused by the data center buildout. It’s very handy-wavy about white collar jobs, “yes lots of jobs have been lost, but also the tech sector always has a lot of year-to-year churn, maybe this is just churn”.

Not a super insightful article. The AI jobs apocalypse may or may not be real, but this article doesn’t provide any compelling evidence for its thesis.

Another confusing point: a cooked steak is labile, but salted beef jerky is not. Can we draw any health conclusions from this?

By this definition, a cooked egg is ultra processed, but a raw egg isn’t?

“Thieves of private property pass their lives in chains. Thieves of public property, in riches and luxury”. —Cato the Elder

The point is to classify them into two kinds. The kind that shifts the frontier is more powerful, since improves capabilities without incurring tradeoffs.

Reminds me of Thucydides describing some of the civil wars that erupted in various cities in the wake of the Pelopponesian war.

He says that when order breaks down, thoughtful moderates are treated as weak cowards, and that simple-minded but aggressive people make the first move and kill off thoughtful people who think they will be able to make compelling arguments.

Their release post was on HN recently. The comments seemed to think that it was similar to OpenRouter, not an actual model.