Interesting & detailed interview with founder of a Ukranian drone manufacturer. Talks about procurement around 10 mins: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlSMz_vtSwg
Our digital twins will write the comments. They will be us, but with none of our flaws. They will never experience the shame of posting a dumb joke, getting flamed, and then deleting it, for they will have tested all…
It seems to me that taking down fraudulent academic researchers and barring them from ever having anything to do with research in the future would also have a significant impact on the ethics and behavior of the next…
I have a bit of AI fatigue around this wave of tools, but also understand why they are garnering so much attention. Many of the innovation hype categories of the past decade have appeared stuck in the 'early days but…
The challenge is that AI generated content will only register as garbage to those who fall 1-2 standard deviations away from the mean interest level for whatever content the AI is producing. For everybody else, it will…
Similar thing would happen in my Toyota, the song 'Afraid' by Yellowcard would play every time I turned on the car. Realized it was playing the first song in my library. In Apple Music there is a song called 'A a a a a…
This is really awesome. I think the ability to record the camera position / perspective changes atop the video (while shooting and after shooting) for export to flat video or gif would be really cool. It would allow…
The customer's words echoed in his mind. 'robert at lightbulb emoji dot kz, but with a real lightbulb emoji.' The clerk had registered thousands, maybe tens of thousands of e-mails into the Nordstrom Rack Nordy Rewards…
For a holiday get together a teammate created a trivia game using this tool: https://ahaslides.com/ It was surprisingly fun. You could join just using a link (no account needed), and scorekeeping was well done. They…
A few years ago I experimented with a crypto trading bot. Got busy with other things, and pivoted to less-active strategies. Several months later I was in bed about to fall asleep when I received a tax document from…
Glad they are pivoting to this 'Upgrade your Mask,' approach. Noticed a few months ago a lot of energy seemed to be spent on encouraging the final 5-7% of people to wear masks. Also noticed many people 'wearing masks,'…
I've perused WSB for a while, but watching GameStop this morning, I'm worried this recent 'short squeeze initiative' opens the door for various retail trading restrictions. Whether phase-out of commission-free trading,…
It's interesting to me that the demand for Parler was almost exclusively the result of policies enacted by other social media platforms. Perhaps there was merit to the notion that letting groups operate in a contained…
Next Year: 49ers court Russell Okung with state of the art crypto mining facility.
This leaky bucket approach seems ineffective, ignores the root cause, and likely emboldens people adhering to these ideas. As bizarre as it sounds, I think the root cause for the rise in supply and demand for…
Thermo Fisher Scientific has freezers that hit these temps. About $10-20k per unit it appears. https://www.fishersci.com/us/en/browse/90106033/ultra-low-te...
I would say standing against injustice is not political. But there comes a point where in order for change to occur and prevent future injustices, the stand must become a walk (to keep the metaphor). Some will say it…
I don't know what their endgame is but it seems they timed the release well strategically. Two hours earlier, Trump tweeted that he was ending stimulus negotiations, which led to a big market selloff into the close. Any…
Interesting concept, I would have considered leaving the bridges their natural colors and installing small, tinted panes of glass at photo spots along the walkway. Would allow photos to show a more immersive 'banknote…
I've found that I typically don't need to know how it works if my use case is common and the library is well documented, but when either of those doesn't hold it can be very helpful to read through the implementation in…
Part one of this book really helped with my understanding of monetary policy, very clear examples of how the price of money is expressed through Exchange Rates, Interest Rates, and Aggregate Price Levels and the…
Boeing was still promising end of year FAA certification for 737 Max as recently as early December. Around that time, they had a spokesperson on CNBC who was asked directly how the outstanding steps (which indicated…
The craziest part of this article is the note at the end about airlines being forced to remove mention of Taiwan in order to do business in China. Went to Delta website to find a flight to Taipei, and sure enough every…
Housework in many parts of Africa is hard, grueling work, and the women perform it from sunrise to sunset every day. Washing clothes without a washing machine, scrubbing dusty floors, cooking on charcoal stoves. None of…
When I was a kid and my Uncle described Amazon as a 'new virtual bookstore,' this is almost exactly what I pictured. Very cool.
Interesting & detailed interview with founder of a Ukranian drone manufacturer. Talks about procurement around 10 mins: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlSMz_vtSwg
Our digital twins will write the comments. They will be us, but with none of our flaws. They will never experience the shame of posting a dumb joke, getting flamed, and then deleting it, for they will have tested all…
It seems to me that taking down fraudulent academic researchers and barring them from ever having anything to do with research in the future would also have a significant impact on the ethics and behavior of the next…
I have a bit of AI fatigue around this wave of tools, but also understand why they are garnering so much attention. Many of the innovation hype categories of the past decade have appeared stuck in the 'early days but…
The challenge is that AI generated content will only register as garbage to those who fall 1-2 standard deviations away from the mean interest level for whatever content the AI is producing. For everybody else, it will…
Similar thing would happen in my Toyota, the song 'Afraid' by Yellowcard would play every time I turned on the car. Realized it was playing the first song in my library. In Apple Music there is a song called 'A a a a a…
This is really awesome. I think the ability to record the camera position / perspective changes atop the video (while shooting and after shooting) for export to flat video or gif would be really cool. It would allow…
The customer's words echoed in his mind. 'robert at lightbulb emoji dot kz, but with a real lightbulb emoji.' The clerk had registered thousands, maybe tens of thousands of e-mails into the Nordstrom Rack Nordy Rewards…
For a holiday get together a teammate created a trivia game using this tool: https://ahaslides.com/ It was surprisingly fun. You could join just using a link (no account needed), and scorekeeping was well done. They…
A few years ago I experimented with a crypto trading bot. Got busy with other things, and pivoted to less-active strategies. Several months later I was in bed about to fall asleep when I received a tax document from…
Glad they are pivoting to this 'Upgrade your Mask,' approach. Noticed a few months ago a lot of energy seemed to be spent on encouraging the final 5-7% of people to wear masks. Also noticed many people 'wearing masks,'…
I've perused WSB for a while, but watching GameStop this morning, I'm worried this recent 'short squeeze initiative' opens the door for various retail trading restrictions. Whether phase-out of commission-free trading,…
It's interesting to me that the demand for Parler was almost exclusively the result of policies enacted by other social media platforms. Perhaps there was merit to the notion that letting groups operate in a contained…
Next Year: 49ers court Russell Okung with state of the art crypto mining facility.
This leaky bucket approach seems ineffective, ignores the root cause, and likely emboldens people adhering to these ideas. As bizarre as it sounds, I think the root cause for the rise in supply and demand for…
Thermo Fisher Scientific has freezers that hit these temps. About $10-20k per unit it appears. https://www.fishersci.com/us/en/browse/90106033/ultra-low-te...
I would say standing against injustice is not political. But there comes a point where in order for change to occur and prevent future injustices, the stand must become a walk (to keep the metaphor). Some will say it…
I don't know what their endgame is but it seems they timed the release well strategically. Two hours earlier, Trump tweeted that he was ending stimulus negotiations, which led to a big market selloff into the close. Any…
Interesting concept, I would have considered leaving the bridges their natural colors and installing small, tinted panes of glass at photo spots along the walkway. Would allow photos to show a more immersive 'banknote…
I've found that I typically don't need to know how it works if my use case is common and the library is well documented, but when either of those doesn't hold it can be very helpful to read through the implementation in…
Part one of this book really helped with my understanding of monetary policy, very clear examples of how the price of money is expressed through Exchange Rates, Interest Rates, and Aggregate Price Levels and the…
Boeing was still promising end of year FAA certification for 737 Max as recently as early December. Around that time, they had a spokesperson on CNBC who was asked directly how the outstanding steps (which indicated…
The craziest part of this article is the note at the end about airlines being forced to remove mention of Taiwan in order to do business in China. Went to Delta website to find a flight to Taipei, and sure enough every…
Housework in many parts of Africa is hard, grueling work, and the women perform it from sunrise to sunset every day. Washing clothes without a washing machine, scrubbing dusty floors, cooking on charcoal stoves. None of…
When I was a kid and my Uncle described Amazon as a 'new virtual bookstore,' this is almost exactly what I pictured. Very cool.