It was built in-house at Google, not aquired. Orkut (the person) had been working at Google for several years before he built orkut.com. He'd done a similar site at Stanford pre-Google (and pre-Friendster!)
Lately I've been using RSVP (rapid serial visual presentation) speed reading, where you see a single word at a time, reading at 400-600wpm. You have to pay attention or you miss the words, so the distraction questions…
DragonBox Algebra has a similar concept but gamified. It has a cool progression: you get a new "power" each chapter, like factoring or negating. And it starts out with monster cards then gradually transitions to "x" and…
What conclusion do you think I was drawing? I was just sharing an interesting quote relevant to the thread. Oil was solely a lighting product at this point. The Teamsters were clearly not thinking 70 years into the…
No idea about them trying to ban automobiles, but oil pipelines were invented to get around their friction. From _The Prize_, referencing the mid-1800s: "From the first discoveries, teamsters, lashing their horses, had…
The donation was also made through a donor advised fund (DAF), which means Musk didn't legally make the donation. I'm surprised he didn't lose on not having standing.
Making my own epub reader with the kitchen sink of features I'd like. It's a speed-reading app first and foremost, using RSVP (rapid serial visual presentation, one word at a time). Also answers questions about the book…
My personal project is illustrating arbitrary stories with consistent characters and settings. I've rewritten it at least 5 times, and Nano Banana has been a game-changer. My kids are willing to listen to much more…
We use c++ modules at Waymo, inside the google monorepo. The Google toolchain team did all the hard work, but we applied it more aggressively than any team I know of. The results have been fantastic, with our largest…
At Waymo we use c++ modules via clang and got the demanded 5x speedup. As the article mentions, you need a close relationship between the compiler and build system, which Google already has. The google build tooling…
And imagine a hypothetical project that's 75% excavation. It'd never be built today, but if excavation gets cheaper the project could be feasible. And then an explosion of underground bunkers and volcano lairs.
As a counter to your one example: I've worked on autonomous vehicles for 16 years and my largest philanthropic effort is improving public transit. The common theme is being really interested in transportation and…
What you're describing is L4. L4 is fully autonomous but with limitations on where/when it can operate. Level 5 is that but without restrictions. Level 2 and 3 are the mostly-automated version, and they differ in how…
I think you may mean Level 4. The difference between 4 and 5 is that 5 doesn't have any territory/environmental constraints, but you said you don't mind those.
Your link literally says the opposite. Sales dropped from 2023 to 2024.
But the Bakersfield/Merced HSR line is an actual project, estimated at over $30B (it makes no sense independently but is part of LA-to-SF). You seem to be comparing an actual, private tech project to what you wished…
We started January 2009.
FYI that article is an interview with Jo Boaler, the main architect of removing middle school Algebra in SF and California (attempted). Her views are pretty controversial among those promoting math excellence. That's…
What's your evidence that it would crash without the remote operation, or that it's more than 1.0 people?
I built my kids "the box", which had a similar concept. It was an upholstered box with a frosted acrylic top and a camera mounted inside facing up. You would put cards on top of the box and it would recognize the…
It is in California, but it hasn't been enforced yet: https://www.autobodynews.com/news/tesla-not-allowed-to-call-...
But isn't that the "relative" point? A house in Santa Clara doesn't cost $1.4M because it's 3x better than a house in another state, or costs 3x as much to build. It's because there are a lot of other high-salary people…
I believe the seismic problems come from water flowing across the bore hole and eventually destabilizing the ground (this can happen with fracking). The Quaise approach basically cauterizes the hole as it drills, so…
It was built in-house at Google, not aquired. Orkut (the person) had been working at Google for several years before he built orkut.com. He'd done a similar site at Stanford pre-Google (and pre-Friendster!)
Lately I've been using RSVP (rapid serial visual presentation) speed reading, where you see a single word at a time, reading at 400-600wpm. You have to pay attention or you miss the words, so the distraction questions…
DragonBox Algebra has a similar concept but gamified. It has a cool progression: you get a new "power" each chapter, like factoring or negating. And it starts out with monster cards then gradually transitions to "x" and…
What conclusion do you think I was drawing? I was just sharing an interesting quote relevant to the thread. Oil was solely a lighting product at this point. The Teamsters were clearly not thinking 70 years into the…
No idea about them trying to ban automobiles, but oil pipelines were invented to get around their friction. From _The Prize_, referencing the mid-1800s: "From the first discoveries, teamsters, lashing their horses, had…
The donation was also made through a donor advised fund (DAF), which means Musk didn't legally make the donation. I'm surprised he didn't lose on not having standing.
Making my own epub reader with the kitchen sink of features I'd like. It's a speed-reading app first and foremost, using RSVP (rapid serial visual presentation, one word at a time). Also answers questions about the book…
My personal project is illustrating arbitrary stories with consistent characters and settings. I've rewritten it at least 5 times, and Nano Banana has been a game-changer. My kids are willing to listen to much more…
We use c++ modules at Waymo, inside the google monorepo. The Google toolchain team did all the hard work, but we applied it more aggressively than any team I know of. The results have been fantastic, with our largest…
At Waymo we use c++ modules via clang and got the demanded 5x speedup. As the article mentions, you need a close relationship between the compiler and build system, which Google already has. The google build tooling…
And imagine a hypothetical project that's 75% excavation. It'd never be built today, but if excavation gets cheaper the project could be feasible. And then an explosion of underground bunkers and volcano lairs.
As a counter to your one example: I've worked on autonomous vehicles for 16 years and my largest philanthropic effort is improving public transit. The common theme is being really interested in transportation and…
What you're describing is L4. L4 is fully autonomous but with limitations on where/when it can operate. Level 5 is that but without restrictions. Level 2 and 3 are the mostly-automated version, and they differ in how…
I think you may mean Level 4. The difference between 4 and 5 is that 5 doesn't have any territory/environmental constraints, but you said you don't mind those.
Your link literally says the opposite. Sales dropped from 2023 to 2024.
But the Bakersfield/Merced HSR line is an actual project, estimated at over $30B (it makes no sense independently but is part of LA-to-SF). You seem to be comparing an actual, private tech project to what you wished…
We started January 2009.
FYI that article is an interview with Jo Boaler, the main architect of removing middle school Algebra in SF and California (attempted). Her views are pretty controversial among those promoting math excellence. That's…
What's your evidence that it would crash without the remote operation, or that it's more than 1.0 people?
I built my kids "the box", which had a similar concept. It was an upholstered box with a frosted acrylic top and a camera mounted inside facing up. You would put cards on top of the box and it would recognize the…
It is in California, but it hasn't been enforced yet: https://www.autobodynews.com/news/tesla-not-allowed-to-call-...
But isn't that the "relative" point? A house in Santa Clara doesn't cost $1.4M because it's 3x better than a house in another state, or costs 3x as much to build. It's because there are a lot of other high-salary people…
I believe the seismic problems come from water flowing across the bore hole and eventually destabilizing the ground (this can happen with fracking). The Quaise approach basically cauterizes the hole as it drills, so…