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I'm still more comfortable keeping my code in America.

The real metric should be how good looking they are. That transcends household income, race, and gender. /sarc

Yes! In programming speak, you're talking about levels of abstraction.

Are people still talking about OKRs? Dang that's so '00s

Plenty of nitpicking here, for me this piece was a fun and clever thought-ride.

If a tree is distressed in the forest and there are no insects there to hear it, does it make a sound?

I knew a musician who once clicked on a "ring for customer service" bell at the service counter of a laundromat, and then told the arriving attendant "Your bell is a quarter-tone flat."

For me the real nugget is the first comment:

"Programmers have a pavlovian engineering response. Pose them a problem and they'll start trying to solve it."

What exactly does this mean?

Doesnt work for the map around my home. While the buildings in my neighborhood generate shadows on the map, none of the trees do.

<antennas so big that we cannot even simulate their behavior.>

I really would love another sentence or two on this. I can't immediately think why that would be, e.g. don't Maxwell's equations apply at very large scales? Any ideas?

Musk says "Blindsight is the next @Neuralink product after Telepathy."

Let's see, I think after that, the next product should be Magic Missle. Or maybe Sanctuary?

<Its incredible to me that educated adults are taking long-distance manned space travel seriously>

Comical and Strangelovian perhaps, but also the only hope for humankind. How many years until the expanding sun's corona envelops the earth? Assuming we make it that long without first destroying ourselves or meeting an unfriendly asteroid, you can bet that all of humanity will be behind the effort. So while it's not on this week's scrum board, it's definitely a high-priority TODO.

Does Onedoc retain any visibility into, or in any way use or reserve the right to use any content created using its API in any way? Obviously, calling an API means sending document contents to Onedoc.

I imagine this would be of great benefit to plagiarists.

Using Gemini, a former Rolling Stone editor discovers his involvement in past scandals.

This seems like a pretty important finding, entymology's version of cracking Fermat's Last Theorem. I wonder if there's a Nobel category for entymology.

I understand this is a Python-centric source, but without having done my homework I'd have thought Python wouldn't be a particularly great language for dealing with these low level concerns. Wouldn't it be much easier in C? In java it's as simple as Runtime.getRuntime().availableProcessors()

This description of SBF does evoke a Netflix "I was in a cult" documentary. A larger-than-life leader, with huge vision. I wonder how much of his success was due to his charisma and the ability to steamroll (and sidetrack) people with over-the-top world-changing vision.

So perhaps a competent biostatistician could get away with it?

> ...it would help if journals routinely asked authors to share their IPD

Why couldn't a bad actor just fake the raw data? Isn't that what Climategate was all about?

The rise of robust middle classes in Asia have also put a squeeze on the world's chocolate supply in the last decade or two. These days in the US, it's hard to even discern the cocoa in most "chocolate" bars.

America has a water crisis?

> And an example of it getting something complex terrifically wrong

This is the part I'm stuck on. The process still needs a real analyst to verify whether GPT got it right or not. There goes the ROI, right?

Aardwolf mud: https://www.aardwolf.com/

I've witnessed the reverse happen very successfully: Fortune-500 company signs a multi-million-$$, multi-year contract with a vendor while at the same time investing in them.

Actually, the way I learned it in probably the '80s was that during the colonial era in the Northeast US, the indigenous peoples (Indians) would resume attacks against frontier colonists during late-autumn thaws (cold weather typically preempted organized war parties).

Looks like the inmates are running the asylum at Stanford. <ducks and runs for cover>

Which begs the question, why not just use Dollars?

This entire comment seems to reprise the FTX/Larry David Super Bowl commercial. I'm sure there's a term-of-art for the tactic in debating circles (like "straw-man argument," or "appeal to authority"). I think of it as the "disingenuous comparison."

I can't begin to list all the ways in which comparing the auto industry of the 20th century to crypto of today breaks down. For starters, automobiles promised a massive demonstrable value-add to society from the get-go. Crypto, as others here have pointed out, is a solution looking for a problem.

So far, every application of crypto has actually destroyed value for the process it seeks to replace[1], by adding layers of busy-work on top of an already-working process. If it were of value as a self-contained, isolated ecosystem, then things might be different; but where it interfaces with the existing economic infrastructure within which it needs to operate (and which it seeks to replace), any economic efficiencies bleed out rapidly.

[1] Edit: And I'm not even considering the scams