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Comment · 1 month ago
Skepticism is gone now.
Comment · 1 month ago
GPUs and inference ASICS also have large amounts of high bandwidth memory, plus lots of high speed storage cache, and dedicated very high bandwidth scale-out and scale-up networks. Because they are also often bound by I/O bandwidth.
If your problem is grepping crazy amounts of data, the infrastructure for LLMs isn't a bad place to look for an example.
Comment · 1 month ago
Bots have been unable to beat even pretty good amateur humans despite those advantages so it's still pretty interesting.
Comment · 1 month ago
The Astra one looks pretty good except it's standing on the wrong side of the table
Comment · 2 months ago
millimeter wave radar systems. Backscatter x-ray machines are no longer used. Both have similar properties of being able to see through clothes.
Comment · 4 months ago
When you consider the required tipping, the cost is quite close. And the Waymo is nicer.
Comment · 4 months ago
Don't forget to include time to handle lawsuits and funding delays! Also, someone may break into your house and rip up the instruction book.
Comment · 5 months ago
And yet, in a recent conflict of the US navy vs swarms of drones, no ships were lost.
Comment · 6 months ago
Yea it's hard to reconcile such a small number of affected racks with such a widespread impact though, so this must not be the whole story. They're talking about a half a year to restore the data center. It must be more than a roof repair and 19 racks.
Comment · 6 months ago
Gemini will be replacing the legacy Siri:
https://blog.google/company-news/inside-google/company-annou...
Comment · 6 months ago
I think that where this gets interesting is when you can just drop these robotic systems into an environment that wasn't necessarily set up specifically to handle them. The $50 for your gauge isn't really the cost: it's engineering time to go through the whole environment and set it up so that the robotic system can deal with each of the specific tasks, each of which will require some bespoke setup.
Comment · 8 months ago
As always, Matt Levine has the best take on this:
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/newsletters/2026-02-24/ai-...
"I am sorry. But if you go to Jump Trading and Jane Street and say “hello, I have an unregulated poorly designed mechanism that could lead to $50 billion of market value collapsing overnight, would you like to trade with me,” they are going to say yes, but their eyes are going to light up, you know? If at Time 0 you give them an extremely gameable system that can produce billions of dollars of profit, at Time 10 your system is going to be a smoking wreckage and they are going to have billions of dollars of profit. That’s their whole job, you know? I couldn’t tell you in advance what all the intermediate steps will be, and in fact in hindsight I cannot tell you what the intermediate steps actually were, how Jump and Jane Street made money off the collapse of Terra. But as a heuristic, I mean, come on. Terra was like “hello we have a balloon full of money, here is a pin, dooooooon’t pop the balloon.” Guess what!"
Comment · 8 months ago
So then do you punish the chefs for making their food too appealing?
Comment · 8 months ago
The concept of addiction seems be quite diluted at this point. Does it really make sense to say that, because you're trying to make a product that people like, that this means you're addicting them (intentionally or otherwise) to your product?
Food should not taste good? Books should not be entertaining? Don't try to make your video game fun, or some people may become addicted.
Comment · 8 months ago
AI is already taking over content generation