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Comment · 5 months ago
I tried this last week and had the same experience. It was terrible and they got $140 out of me before I realized what it was (not) capable of. Their support was nonexistent as well.
Comment · 8 months ago
I find this language fascinating. On one hand, the Department of "War" gives the department an underlying, unspoken goal that it should be involved in war with something. On the other hand, it's very easy to fund the Department of "Defense;" of course we need more money to defend our country. Don't we want to be safe! It's much less attractive to fund the Department of "War"
Comment · 8 months ago
I had to dig this up. Elon Musk signed an open pledge in 2016 to disallow Robots/AI to make kill decisions.

https://futureoflife.org/open-letter/lethal-autonomous-weapo...

He's now on X bashing Anthropic for taking this same stance. I know this would be expected of him, but many other Google AI researchers signed this as well as Google Deep Mind the organization. We really need to push to keep humans in the kill decision loop. Google, OpenAI, and X-AI are are all just agreeing with the Pentagon.

Comment · 8 months ago
Also, MicroVision, the company in OP's article bought the IP from Luminar. This feels like a circular venture capital scam. Luminar originally went public via SPAC and made a bunch of people very wealthy before ultimately failing.
Comment · 9 months ago
If the goal is to make US goods attractive to other countries and to decrease our trade deficit (not saying I agree with this goal), either the dollar has to become fundamentally weaker or the goods have to become more valuable. The latter feels more difficult than the former at this point. However, the side effects of a weaker dollar may not be worth weakening it.
Comment · 1 year ago
Every country has rare earth elements. Just google "X discovers rare earth" where X is your country of choice and you'll find articles about how they have huge deposits. The underlying problem is the processing. China has figured this out and has cornered the market. Until other countries figure out how to process these materials, China will be able to leverage this capability to their advantage.
Comment · 1 year ago
Lead poisoning.
Comment · 1 year ago
Who actually wants a thinner iPhone?
Comment · 1 year ago
Trying to buy a physical copy. It says "This product is not currently for sale." Would love to buy this.
Comment · 1 year ago
I just wanted to highlight that he was also an entrepreneurship professor at NC State and shaped many students' views of what they could do with their lives.

I was one of those students. I now own my own company as a result of his teachings. He was very influential and a wonderful human being. This news is tragic.

RIP Marshall. You were loved.

Comment · 1 year ago
We make an AI camera for residential home builders. I'd love to chat to see if there's any synergy here.

bedrockwireless.com

Ping me, stephen [at] bedrockwireless.com

Comment · 2 years ago
When they use sound effects in news reports, they're called "nat pops."

They're often used to make reporters sound like they're somewhere they're not. They can be very convincing.

Comment · 2 years ago
Just learn dvorak or colemak - they're not hard to learn, have tons of benefits, and are readily available on all operating systems
Comment · 2 years ago
And then refuted that with a different study at the end. Weird.
Comment · 2 years ago
Most of the citrus growers are just selling off their land for housing developments. Florida is still experiencing high growth. A lot of that growth is older populations trying to avoid state taxes on their retirement income. These people don't need to live near industrialized areas. They just want to live near other older populations.

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