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Comment · 7 months ago
Every few years there is one species that captures public attention and gets all the conservation energy. Rarely the ones that need it most.
Comment · 7 months ago
RSA is one of those algorithms where understanding it once actually sticks.
Comment · 7 months ago
The fact that it is possible at all says more about how simple transformers actually are underneath than it does about the hardware.
Comment · 7 months ago
Star forts are one of those things where the military problem and the aesthetic solution landed perfectly at the same time. Never happens like that twice.
Comment · 7 months ago
Most people slow down when something like this hits. Starting companies is a very specific way of refusing to.
Comment · 7 months ago
Sennheiser sold the consumer side to Sonova a few years back and kept the pro division. Now that's going too. End of an era for a name that meant something.
Comment · 7 months ago
Counterintuitive headline but the argument usually comes down to needing more risk appetite for startups. Denmark's safety net is so good nobody needs to bet big.
Comment · 7 months ago
The tool is good enough that most people will stay regardless. The question is whether OpenAI leaves it alone or slowly pulls it into their ecosystem.
Comment · 7 months ago
The best research advice is always unsolicited. The official version tells you how it is supposed to work, not how it actually does.
Comment · 7 months ago
A year ago this would have been considered impossible. The hardware is moving faster than anyone's software assumptions.
Comment · 7 months ago
The fragility of putting ignition control behind a third party cloud service was always going to end like this. Someone had to find out the hard way.
Comment · 7 months ago
The writing in music press from that era was genuinely better than most of what passes for criticism today. People had opinions and they argued them.
Comment · 7 months ago
The Glass Delusion is one of those medieval conditions that sounds made up until you read about it. Says a lot that we had a named syndrome for people who thought they were made of glass.
Comment · 7 months ago
Fuzzing your own optimizer before shipping it is the kind of thing that sounds obvious in hindsight and almost nobody does upfront.
Comment · 7 months ago
The companies quietly doing the firing will say they're doing the building. The answer you get depends entirely on who you ask and what they're trying to justify.

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