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basiccalendar74··on Tesla Q1 2024 Update [pdf]
mental load of driving is already reduced quite a bit (50%?) by Basic Autopilot.
basiccalendar74··on Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang announces new AI chips: ‘We need bigger GPUs’
they announced a cloud service NIM that hosts LLMs using Nvidia software stack.

https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/nvidia-nim-offers-optimize...

so there is a push towards a platform company, but probably not well explained in this article.

basiccalendar74··on The Oregon Outback International Dark Sky Sanctuary
a similar blocking effect happens in Joshua Tree. Very clear skies even though LA is not far away.
basiccalendar74··on House passes bill to force TikTok sale from Chinese owner or ban the app
Yes, it’s cable news. But US has restrictions on foreign owned news.
basiccalendar74··on House passes bill to force TikTok sale from Chinese owner or ban the app
Even if data doesn’t leave US, we want to avoid algorithmic manipulation via TikTok feed.
basiccalendar74··on Ford EVs gain access to Tesla Superchargers starting today
Twitter board disagrees
basiccalendar74··on Nvidia adds $277B in market value, Wall Street's largest one-day gain in history
that earnings remain same as this quarter for a few quarters (higher revenues, lower margins ofc). forward P/E is 30-40 range, typical for tech companies.

Apple has been making a bank on iPhones, with no major leap frog in 10 years. Nvidia could do that too, hard but not unimaginable.

basiccalendar74··on Magnificent 7 profits exceed almost every country in the world. Should we worry?
market was definitely undervaluing at end of 2022. compare to end of 2021 or even pre-pandemic (end of 2019) and returns are quite sensible.
basiccalendar74··on Mark Zuckerberg’s new goal is creating artificial general intelligence
mostly because Meta did not develop a custom AI chip, like Google.
basiccalendar74··on Amazon Prime Video starts showing ads in January unless you pay $2.99/month xtra
yes, it is.
basiccalendar74··on Ferret: A Multimodal Large Language Model
this seems like a good but small research project by a research team in Apple. far away from what product teams are working on for next generation of apple products.
basiccalendar74··on Volkswagen, Porsche, and Audi say they will use Tesla's EV charging plug
by opening up supercharging network, Tesla becomes eligible for billions of federal money. that tips the scales towards open superchargers.
basiccalendar74··on OpenAI negotiations to reinstate Altman hit snag over board role
this makes a lot of sense. I wonder if board's goal in firing Sam was to make everyone (govt., general public,) understand for-profit motives of Sam and most employees at this point.

Either Sam forms a new company with mass exodus of employees, or outside pressure changes structure of OpenAI towards a clear for-profit vision. In both cases, there will be no confusion going forward whether OpenAI/Sam have become a profit-chasing startup.

Chasing profits is not bad in itself, but doing it under the guise of a non-profit organization is.

basiccalendar74··on What I learned getting acquired by Google
if the same invention happened at a university, no one would say MIT/Stanford invented transformer. We credit the people involved. Somehow, if it happens at a company, company gets most of the credit. Even when the papers and authors are publicly available. this is different from say iPhone which probably would not be developed at a university.
basiccalendar74··on YouTube: Adblockers violate YouTube's terms of service
if your watch time is mostly for top 3 creators, they anyway get a big chunk of 51% of subscription price.
basiccalendar74··on The way that Jensen Huang runs Nvidia: 40 direct reports, no 1:1s
everyone in the org can read them. One can also subscribe to other org's mailing lists.
basiccalendar74··on The way that Jensen Huang runs Nvidia: 40 direct reports, no 1:1s
In practice, each org has a top5 mailing list to which employees send weekly updates. Jensen samples from these mailing lists.
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