dewarrn1
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Comment · 11 days ago
One hopes fireproof homes and idle firefighters are not the genesis for Ray Bradbury’s dark prophecy.
Comment · 28 days ago
A shame. I encountered his work in a couple of places (with the caveat that I don't know which Cringely was which):
PBS website: He wrote a column that their site no longer hosts, but the Wayback Machine has it snapshotted frequently, including just after his final submission for the outlet in 2008: https://web.archive.org/web/20081223220604/http://www.pbs.or...
NerdTV: In an era of nascent web video, he produced long-form video interviews with tech types, and clipped what might now be called "Shorts/Tiktoks" from the conversations, pulling out the of "the juicy bit" and "the nerdy bit". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NerdTV (h/t to u/Keyframe)
And obliquely, Cringely's columns or videos were the first place I recall hearing about foveated approaches to video compression for streaming. I thought it sounded like a terrible idea, but I guess Valve delivered, 20 years on, using the technique to good effect with the Steam Frame. Chalk one up for Cringely; RIP.
Comment · 28 days ago
It would be quite an encore if he pulled this off one last time.
Comment · 29 days ago
A sad irony in the title of one of his last blog posts, "Not dead yet! What Bob Cringely has been up to…". https://www.cringely.com/2020/01/23/not-dead-yet-what-bob-cr...
Comment · 1 month ago
"The word of the president of the United States is good enough for me."
Comment · 1 month ago
This is a stunning attempt to rewrite history.
> It was Levandowski who...had persuaded Google’s leadership to spend millions of dollars inventing self-driving cars.
> Some of the biggest fights involved risks that Levandowski was taking in self-driving experiments. ... “If it is your job to advance technology, safety cannot be your No. 1 concern,” Levandowski told me. “If it is, you’ll never do anything. It’s always safer to leave the car in the driveway. You’ll never learn from a real mistake.” [0]
[0] https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/10/22/did-uber-steal...
Comment · 2 months ago
In light of recent news, it is hard not to think about the 4.5-day hack on Hugging Face's systems happening ~10 times faster and be slightly concerned.
Comment · 3 months ago
It's not quite the same, but your prose clock solution reminded me of this: https://www.authorandco.com/products/author-clock.
Comment · 5 months ago
If AI writes your code, why fuss about the language it writes in?
Comment · 6 months ago
I'm hopeful that new efficiencies in training (Deepseek et al.), the impressive performance of smaller models enhanced through distillation, and a glut of past-their-prime-but-functioning GPUs all converge make good-enough open/libre models cheap, ubiquitous, and less resource-intensive to train and run.
Comment · 7 months ago
The premise for this research question is related in part to work from Dr. Eleanor Maguire (who I just learned died last year at only 55) and her team on hippocampal anatomy and careers involving spatial navigation, including taxi drivers. A connection that may be of interest to HN readers: Demis Hassabis was one of Maguire's doctoral students, although he does not appear to have worked on the project most relevant to this study.
Comment · 7 months ago
Hail u/cperciva.
Comment · 7 months ago
If you're not interested in the new sets, the core product is readily available. Moreover, enjoy the fact that you can get that bucket of bricks for cheap partly because the expensive shiny high-margin SKUs provide a subsidy.
Comment · 8 months ago
$499 through Apple Edu: https://www.apple.com/us-edu/shop/buy-mac/macbook-neo.
Comment · 8 months ago
The real question: did he have Claude write this for him?
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