davidhunter
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Comment · 5 months ago
Using your analogy, imagine it's the year 2026. Two armies are fighting. One uses letter to communicate. One uses phones. Which army do you want to fight in?
This is an obviously poor policy.
Comment · 6 months ago
I cycle 60 mins per day along the tow path in London on my Brompton, put it under my desk in the office, and then get the train back in the evening. No issues handling that distance.
Comment · 7 months ago
If you don’t understand then you should invest some time learning microeconomics, marketing, and moats. Principles from (at least) those 3 areas are involved here.
To give 3 examples:
1. The marginal value of these products is in the mind of the individual buyer. No individual is buying both the AirPods Max 2 AND the MacBook Neo for personal use. You can’t compare marginal value across two different individuals.
2. The MacBook Neo has a different set of substitutable goods vs the AirPods Max 2. This affects margin. AirPods Max 2 buyers are likely heavily bought into the Apple ecosystem already.
3. With the Neo, Apple are in some sense subsidising entry into the Apple Ecosystem and ‘getting them young’. Wouldn’t surprise me if there’s zero or negative margin. With the AirPods Max 2 they are exploiting people who are already bought into the ecosystem. Margins will be high.
Comment · 7 months ago
There's the Tony Hoare Room [1] in the Robert Hooke Building. We held our Reinforcement Learning reading group there.
[1] https://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/people/jennifer.watson/tonyhoare.htm...
Comment · 9 months ago
Seems like the role of the human operator in the age of AI is to be the entity they can throw in jail if the machine fails (e.g. driver, pilot)
Comment · 9 months ago
"No, I am not a horse."
Horse rumours denied.
Comment · 11 months ago
Top of the market
Comment · 1 year ago
Optimal | London, UK | ONSITE
Simulation and Control Engineer: Up to £150k + 2% depending on experience.
Full-stack Software Engineer (Python, React): Up to £150k + 2% depending on experience.
Reach out directly to me (founder): [email protected]
Optimal is building agents to control the world’s most critical infrastructure - from factories, to datacenters, to farms.
We are backed by the Director of AI Research at Google DeepMind as well as early VC investors in SpaceX, Anduril, and Palantir.
We have built the world’s most advanced climate control system for high-tech greenhouses and have customers in North America and Europe.
Comment · 1 year ago
I’d suggest reading about competitive moats and where they come from. The ability to replicate another’s software does not destroy their moat.
Comment · 1 year ago
Optimal | London, UK | ONSITE
Backend Software Engineer (Python): Up to £150k + 2% depending on experience.
Optimal builds AI agents to control the world’s critical infrastructure - from factories, to datacenters, to farms.
We are backed by the Director of AI Research at Google DeepMind as well as early VC investors in SpaceX, Anduril, and Palantir.
We have built the world’s most advanced AI control system for high-tech greenhouses and have just signed out first customer contracts in North America and Europe having proven the performance of our AI across 3 seasons in our own demonstration greenhouse.
[email protected]
Comment · 1 year ago
Anyone else think “vibe coding” is a poor choice of name. Too ambiguous.
Friend of mine suggested “apping”.
I ‘apped’ this in 2 hours vs I ‘vibe coded’ this in 2 hours.
Comment · 1 year ago
Optimal | London, UK | ONSITE
AI Simulation and Control Engineer: Up to £150k + 2% depending on experience (https://wellfound.com/l/2AUs7A)
Backend Software Engineer (Python): Up to £150k + 2% depending on experience (reach out direct to [email protected])
Optimal builds AI agents to control the world’s critical infrastructure - from factories, to datacenters, to farms.
We are backed by the Director of AI Research at Google DeepMind as well as early VC investors in SpaceX, Anduril, and Palantir.
We have built the world’s most advanced AI control system for high-tech greenhouses and have just signed out first customer contracts in North America and Europe having proven the performance of our AI across 3 seasons in our own demonstration greenhouse.
[email protected]
Comment · 1 year ago
Bill Gates also lost money on greenhouses [0][1]
[0] https://www.reuters.com/technology/bill-gates-green-tech-fun...
[1] https://techcrunch.com/2022/11/03/iron-ox-lays-off-50-amount...
Comment · 1 year ago
Optimal | London, UK | ONSITE
AI Simulation and Control Engineer: Up to £150k + 2% depending on experience (https://wellfound.com/l/2AUs7A)
Full-Stack Software Engineer (Python): Up to £150k + 2% depending on experience (reach out direct to [email protected])
Optimal builds AI agents to control the world’s critical infrastructure - from factories, to datacenters, to farms.
We are backed by the Director of AI Research at Google DeepMind as well as early VC investors in SpaceX, Anduril, and Palantir.
We have built the world’s most advanced AI control system for high-tech greenhouses and have just signed out first customer contracts in North America and Europe having proven the performance of our AI across 3 seasons in our own demonstration greenhouse.
[email protected]