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Data doesn't belong to anyone, data is free :) zero-copy cost, delivery at speed of light.

The terminology is overloaded.. Tensors in QM are objects obeying transformation laws, in ML Tensors are just data arranged in multidimensional arrays. There are no constraints on how the data transforms.

Interesting.. I agree on the description but my experience was opposite. I enjoyed F1 much more, though I really enjoy all the technical stats and talks with the teams/engineers that develop the cars and find it to be an equal part of the whole thing as the actual racing itself.

Good point too. Though it makes me wonder if "We declared Code Red" is really enough to justify eye-watering valuations.

The way I've experienced "Code Red" is mostly as a euphemism for "on-going company-wide lack of focus" and a band-aid for mid-level management having absolutely no clue how to meaningfully make progress, upper management panicking, and ultimately putting engineers and ICs on the spot to bear the brunt of that organizational mess.

Interestingly enough, apart from Google, I've never seen an organization take the actual proper steps (fire mid-management and PMs) to prevent the same thing from happening again. Will be interesting to see how OAI handles this.

The thing is shipping sloppy code is orders of magnitudes easier, because that's the default result. Any sufficiently determined hack-job can do it. On the other hand, steering a team of 5-10 engineers to deliver quality on (or before!) a deadline requires excessive amounts of coordination and skill. Now, is this trade-off "worth" the effort? I guess that's a matter of opinion, though I would argue in the long term quality wins out by a large margin.

been using this for years.. it doesn't have the GCM crap and hence works on de-googlified custom ROMs as well. Surprised how many people don't seem to know about it.

Particularly the numerous variations of 2 have found widespread success when explaining to the poor the reasons for why they are poor:

2.a) the foreigners / jews / muslims invading and pillaging our glorious, Christian home country are stealing their jobs

2.b) the socialists / communists / antifa bureaucrats are stealing their wages

This can be tailored and highly specific towards the target audience (e.g., Facebook Ads, Twitter Bots, in a small town with abandoned industry), alternatively keeping it broad and widely accessible (for Podcasts, banners, or national TV). What really matters for explaining this with impact though is the tone. It is imperative to be loud and angry, ideally you are yelling at your audience. Repeat yourself often and use the most limited vocabulary possible. You need to empathize with the anger of the poor for the clear and obvious injustice that has happened to them. Leaning into that emotion will make anyone happily abandon any remains of rationality and critical thinking, which they have experienced as being completely futile in advancing their own quality of life, or improving their family's living situation. Which is of course the reason why Conservatives would like to have as many poor people as possible amongst their constituencies, and are fighting hard to actively push more people into poverty. They know those people will be their most faithful voters.

I wouldn't exactly call them "excellent", but yeah I think the big caveat is

> the US has excellent protections for PII and data privacy

*for _US nationals_ :)

If you're trying to convince someone (other countries the US) the burden of proof is on you.

That perspective also helps to understand the position that any call for radical climate action must be a weaponization of competing economies to weaken the leader of the pack. So it is very bad framing. Do the work cheaper, better, and at scale. By doing it more efficiently you win. Oh, and of course you'll be more innovative too.

That approach is also super useful if you're manually flashing an image onto some embedded thing (like an ECU, or other types of boot rom). Of course on many modern systems you'll have to get around the checksum guards, but there's typically all sorts of glitch hacks to do that.

FWIW, thank you and the team for all the hard work. Me and my family use it to install, discover, and try out many of the genuinely useful and really cool, high-quality Apps on our de-Googled devices and truly appreciate it. I could never imagine using that ad-ridden, user-tracking, scam-infested, filth-flinging abomination they call Play "Store". The only thing that's worse is GCM - you don't even see it's there as a regular user.

Now factor 21.

Usually, the crypto should have Forward Secrecy already even without being PQ-safe (e.g., via https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Ratchet_Algorithm) so in practice the attacker would need to break many successive session keys - which rotates every time a new message is sent.

Sorry, but no. Device attestation is another mechanism to track and ultimately exercise control over the user. It fundamentally goes against the freedom of choice. You want me to authenticate with multiple factors? Cool.. let me tell you which method I'm already using on all my other accounts and then tell me how to register that with your service. You want to "measure" my device? Okay, I'll take my business elsewhere..

You mean Julian Schrittwieser (collaborator on AlphaGo and first author on MuZero)?

https://www.julian.ac/blog/2025/09/27/failing-to-understand-...

One very interesting aspect is how the Churches are portrayed as "seeking truth" and speaking out in this piece. In the US today it is reversed - in large part due to Baptists. But even in Nazi Germany the relationship between the Church and Hitler was much more complicated than portrayed. For instance, many Catholics supported the NSDAP.

Right? Curious how someone could be so imaginative in all the wrong ways.. it's almost like globalized markets breed a certain type of successful man.

Perhaps because they didn't have literal police states guard and defend their wealth. If the town mob showed up at their house they knew the game was over. Trillionaires or social cohesion.. choose 1.

Jobless and drowning in cash is rough.. it takes a toll on the strongest of minds.. meandering through the day, aimless, chasing the next high. Realizing that being handed a mic wherever you go is now your life. Cursed to be incapable of achievement because what else remains to be achieved. Minimizing your taxes?

Textbook CDU conduct. The best democracy money can buy!!1

"Most trades" doesn't necessarily mean "most profitable trades" ;)

Mainly growing energy demand of AI deployments leading to capacity increases becoming the bottleneck. The key challenge is going to be scaling up energy production in the US.

In Germany, there is the Electronic Cash (or newer versions called Girocard) which is similarly smartcard-based for the offline use case, but pairs with a regular debit card for online use [1]. Apparently, not that many people use the offline functionality.. it also has a somewhat low daily limit (though I think those are in place for some online transactions such as getting cash as well).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_cash

Crazy, right? Doing a good thing that's a net positive for humankind is being punished by the market.. it's almost like markets don't foster beneficial long-term outcomes and we need other entities to enforce those.

Not to go against the OP, but that headline has to be one of the dumbest framings I've seen in a while.. why would you want to replace human teachers with machines? There are an estimated 250 million kids going without any kind of schooling in the world [1], if AI could provide even the most basic kind of education to them it would be a net benefit.

[1] https://news.un.org/en/story/2024/10/1156366

I thought it was the wife of the official, but maybe I'm misremembering things..

I don't think you realize the history of wafer-scale integration and what it means for the chip industry [1]. The approach was famously taken by Gene Amdahl's Trilogy Systems in the 80ies, but failed dramatically leading to (among others) deployment of "accelerator cards" in the form of.. the NVIDIA GeForce 256, the first GPU in 1999. It's not like NVIDIA hasn't been trying to integrate multiple dies in the same package, but doing that successfully has been a huge technological hurdle so far.

[1] https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9623424

> (1) Power and money generally lead to more power and money

At least when applied to Government in the form of "Representative Democracies" I think this overly simplistic view is not useful to analyze what's happening in the real world.

The assumption behind electing representatives is precisely that they will advocate and advance agendas on behalf of the majority - no matter their social status. However, for this to work it requires a populace that is sufficiently informed, educated, and intelligent to understand what sensible solutions look like.

Unfortunately, Rousseau, Voltaire, Kant and many others were wrong and even after 300 years of putting young homo sapiens through 10 years of public education and teaching them rational thinking this assumption turns out to be false.