I went into Project Hail Mary knowing nothing beyond it was from the author of The Martian. It may have been the most enjoyable reading experience I've ever had.
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This explains the Manus hype. Both why it didn't work (too complex) and why there was so much hype (thinking things had significantly advanced beyond this).
Maybe advancements will make Manus-esque systems functional but for now it seems like adding brittle processes on top of one another.
The American democracy he sought to co-create was one that could reign in humanity's worst impulses while enabling our better ones.
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This already happens. The most common AC repair needed is a new capacitor. It's a $20 part.
Call your dad's business, you probably get a quote for $100-ish and it's fixed in ten minutes.
Call a PE owned shop and they are likely to tell you that your entire system needs replaced. Quote $5-$8k.
Reports like this are already common place, and the roll-ups of former small-businesses in industry like HVAC that the PE people celebrate will only make this worse for customers.
Headline: GM’s New Car Software Is Good Even Without Apple’s CarPlay
Details: A GM representative initially guided me through the process of syncing my iPhone over Bluetooth to handle calls and texts, and it requires about 16 clicks to grant the necessary privacy permissions. My wife, accustomed to one-click CarPlay access in our Subaru, later went through this on-boarding herself and found it annoying and complicated without the guidance I had.
Logging into apps is done via QR codes, similar to how you’d sign in to streaming services on a modern TV. Once all that’s set up, though, the experience is pretty smooth.
I'm also reminded of Ha Phan, a thoughtful designer who I'm familiar with via Twitter. She went to Ford for a brief stint a few years ago and left when seeing their tech rhetoric didn't match up with their BigCo bureaucracy [3]. Ford is obviously not GM, but I wouldn't expect any different from a legacy automaker.
[0] https://paulgraham.com/submarine.html [1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2024-05-06/gm-s-n... [2] https://insideevs.com/reviews/726471/gm-carplay-cadillac-lyr... [3] https://x.com/hpdailyrant/status/1699191645709930841
Larger tax bills and a tightening on what roles/activities are deductible as R&E are likely what OP is pointing at with his comment.
To the best of my non-inside baseball research, Section 174 changes were simply one part of a package of revenue generating measures to offset the large tax cuts from the broader tax act they were a part of.
The changes came from The Tax Cuts & Jobs Act of 2017 that was introduced to the House of Representatives by Congressman Kevin Brady (R) Texas. The bill passed both houses of Congress along party lines. Then President Trump signed the bill into law. Section 174 changes did not take effect until 2021.
The 2002 Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) Act:
> The law states that if top corporate executives knowingly sign off on a false financial report, they’re subject to a prison term of up to 10 years and a fine of up to $1 million, with penalties escalating to 20 years and $5 million if their misconduct is willful. [0]
Now, would it work? The linked article details reasons that make it challenging in the SOX context.
$7.5 billion raised at an $18.4 billion valuation for Anthropic.
$11.3 billion raised at an $80.0 billion valuation for OpenAI.
Can you say more about this?
I Google'd and I'm not finding much. I asked ChatGPT and its response was not the assumption I held about what "branching" meant [0].
[0] https://chatgpt.com/c/6b2e0f7c-c4e6-44df-9116-ac7f618200f2
One thing about feedback this is counterintuitive is that, students are generally very bad at understanding what actually helps them learn. When I say learn I mean gain a conceptual understanding and procedural fluency in whatever they are learning that sticks with an ability to appropriately transfer that knowledge beyond the context they've seen it in.
So unfortunately when a student says "that was great!" research has found that to be negatively correlated with learning.
If you want to delve into a study that talks about this and what effective teaching looks like in the long-term I really recommend this study done at the US Air Force Academy [0].
It is the closest thing I have seen to a gold standard study in education where a lot of research is dubious at best:
Look at what Carrell and West handed us with this study:
- 7 year study at the US Air Force Academy - 10,534 students - 421 faculty members - 30 core courses, all standardized (math, science, social science, humanities, and engineering) - Random assignment of students to professors in initial course and follow-on courses
[0] https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/653808
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One key issue the protagonist has to overcome is how to address the issue of an endless backlog.
Five minutes here for the blog, your comments, this reply, then I'm out and likely more productive than I was 6 minutes ago.
DNS over HTTPS is enabled by default and was at the root of my problem. I needed to add these sites to the exception list: archive.is, archive.today, archive.ph
That got me out of captcha purgatory.
>“But what has changed is the way riders get their glycogen fix. New formulations from nutrition brands like Maurten, Precision Fuel and Hydration, and Science in Sport means the age-old carb “ceiling” of 60-90 grams per hour has been blown into another orbit.” “Consumption thresholds have been shifted thanks to “hydrogel” delivery models and new glucose-fructose ratios that ensure what goes down, stays down.”
I would have liked to see some actual details about the carbohydrate changes that have made the increased tolerance so much larger.
I looked at the three brands mentioned and the actual carbohydrate sources listed were tried and true things like maltodextrin [1], maltodextrin/fructose [2], and glucose/fructose [3].
I thought I might see something like highly branched cyclic dextrin. Since it doesn't seem to be any new form of carbohydrate, I'm curious what ancillary ingredients and/or ratios are proving to be the difference maker(s).
[1] https://www.scienceinsport.com/eu/go-isotonic-energy-gels-si... [2] https://www.precisionhydration.com/us/en/products/pf-30-gel/ [3] https://www.maurten.com/products/gel-160-us
Then overlay that with the limiting factors for AI/LLMs.
I had a third-party logistics startup in 2007 that I would have loved to turn into Uber for shipping, but it would be at least a few years before the cell networks and ownership of smartphones reached a point where it was possible.
I don't know if there are limiting factors that will delay LLMs potential to disrupt the status quo.
That opinion is well founded. In the book American Icon by Bryce Hoffman (Detroit News journalist) he chronicles that entire time period.
Mulally pulled off one of the greatest challenges, a bonafide turn around. They had a company culture that was all about individuals protecting their own interests. Mulally changed it to one where they focused on making vehicles people want and thinking about the long-term.
For example, Mulally held a weekly executive meeting and each head would give a color coded report of their domain's status (green for good, yellow for issues, red for caution). For weeks in this meeting every single executive reported their status as "green" for good. This in a fiscal quarter when Ford had a $6 billion loss! Mulally managed to change that culture, which for anyone who has work experience should speak very loudly.
Strategy is conflated with vision or mission. People use the word as a noun, an adverb, and an adjective and all the while talking past each other.
Its use across domains, history, and context all with different meanings make it rife for misunderstanding.
It went to a federal court who ruled the districts not fair but will let them stand for the 2022 elections.
The GOP ignored the rule of law, ignored the courts, and ran out the clock. They will cement their hold on the state in 2022.
That’s the primary lesson learned.
Microsoft, in its hubris, did not.
When it comes to resources, humanity doesn't have much a track record of doing so.