UncleOxidant

Grey Walter also wrote The Living Brain in 1953. It's a fascinating window into the state of brain science and robotics around that time.

> 10 Days to Faster Reading

He's got so many books, did it work?

It's also in the NYTimes.

What about this part: "President Trump was briefed and took no action." ?

Pretty sure it's this part:

> generating $127B in cash, and capital spending on property and equipment was $132B, so the business consumed $5B.

> I suspect if there is any change it is due to the de minimus being removed.

Yep, I'm sure that's what's causing this. Prior to that you didn't need to worry if it was under like $700, IIRC.

PCBWay, but I suspect all of the Chinese manufacturers have to do this now.

I recently went through the exercise of asking one of the Chinese manufacturers how much it would cost to build me a board (a bit pirate adapter board for ESP3 that does all the voltage conversions to the GPIO pins so you don't burn something out). Board layout & BOM already exist on github. They do 5 boards minimum. Ok, so I figure I can sell the other 4 boards, probably not a big deal. Total's about $400. Then we get to the point where I'm about the pull the trigger and it goes to a page on tariffs and it looks like at least 45% + they want my SSN to give to CBP to collect the tariff. That's a hard "Nope" on sending my SSN to China. So I'm going to give this a look.

A computer, compiled into the weights of a language model. An exact CPU inside Qwen3.5-4B, with Gated DeltaNet state as RAM.

> I also think that we’re entering a stabilization phase.

Why do you think that? Everything you wrote prior to that seemed to indicate further destabilization.

inflation of a bubble.

Is anyone going to seriously use a model this small for coding? Doesn't seem like the intended use case or strength of these models.

> when you have an ideology, everything becomes an ideology

Who doesn't have an ideology? Everyone has a framework through which they view the world. The trick is recognizing the ideological framework of the media which you are consuming.

> im glad we have fun podcasts as a kind of replacement social fabric because they are based on sincere interest and desire

I'm pretty sure that's not always true.

I looked at the description and this part: "Braiding fact with fiction, Benjamín Labatut takes us on a journey to the frontiers of rational thought" - gave me pause. The Braiding fact with fiction part. Are there clear demarcations between fact and fiction?