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Whether QE is a mechanism in the brain still seems up for debate from the quick literature review I tried, but would love to learn more.

Given the pace of quantum computing it doesn’t seem out of the realm of possibility to “wire up” to LLMs in a couple years.

Is this not a tool that could be readily implemented and refined?

I like this mental model. Orchestration / Agents and using smaller models to determine the ideal tool input and check the output starts to look like delegation.

Watch it turns out you can tune the FP rate like how casinos can set the win rate on slot machines.

Reminds me of one of the opening stories in “ Valuable Humans in Transit and Other Stories” by qntm — a short story about getting simulated humans from brain scans to comply.

recent paper on “ How Well Does GPT-4o Understand Vision? Evaluating Multimodal Foundation Models on Standard Computer Vision Tasks” [1]

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01955

A bad culture can emerge with tooling first or meeting first cultures.

Let’s see — Apples track record of interoperability isn’t great unless dragged by regulatory bodies. Managing private emails at scale to migrate away from Apple for instance is wildly painful.

Thank God the jacket button is protected then.

They’re doing a great job losing it so far.

The VW and Rivian tie up for electronics will help answer if a traditional automaker can catch up if the electronics integration bit is taken off the table.

Breaking up Google would likely result in many great new businesses being built if that talent pool was shoved out of their comfort zones.

I know this is satire but Maps is increasingly worse. More ads. Less useful POIs. They actually stood still long enough for Apple Maps to catch up.

This list makes the case this is long overdue.

Francis would joke he hoped his successor would be John XXIV. We still get a nice long Roman numeral but could've been even better.

Coincides with their push towards more commerce and being an everything superapp/platform.

They were/are and entirely predictable response.

The broader issue with GDPR is the benefit it gives incumbents over startups.

I started having issues when they supported Citizens United

It’s quite good for jewelry and fashion items — their certification program is legitimate from all the digging I’ve done.

And one of the execs then went on to lead a Boys and Girls club per Wikipedia. Wild.

A less cynical take is that communicating consistently the priorities and tradeoffs the company wants to make as they get larger is a hopeful use of OKRs.

In small teams/companies “the right thing” can be obvious and the team can operate in a shared headspace with low cycle time to discuss and decide tradeoffs when they arise. This gets really problematic at scale.

Now back to the cynicism — it’s also tricky when you want to hide the ball and make teams feel ok about doing bad things: make time spent go up is the goal, who cares if there’s addiction along the way.

That’s a neat idea — I wonder about pairing it with a low cost plotter like: https://www.generativehut.com/post/ly-drawbot-a-70-pen-plott...

Tried metformin as part of a Hims package and cravings went away quickly.

I’ve wondered about ongoing use since they push other drugs as part of their cocktail of weight loss drugs, but not gone down the rabbit hole on dosing and maintenance plans.

I wonder if the Franework model will ever apply to cars with modern safety. Probably not but one can dream.

I want an electric car. I also wish it was feasible to work on it.

Agreed. The false analogy just reduces the likelihood that a real dialogue starts because it’s faux boogie men.

Guess Flock is free to use now that Google abandoned their other project named “FLoC”

Sharing and discovery is a fundamentally human act. It’s not noise. Celebrate people that want to learn, share and develop ideas.

Obligatory XKCD “Ten Thousand” https://xkcd.com/1053/

This happened long ago and is a common pattern has companies transition away from founder led (without all the drama inherent in the “founder mode” meme).

If history rhymes and Sundar is Google Ballmer and I wonder what the next era may hold.

Google brought a lot of great tech, products and people forward and I do hope they find a way back to a more vibrant culture.

Replicability was my first thought as well. These papers make great headlines but how much shaky pyramids of conclusions are built on non-reproducible conclusions?

I'm finding the posts confusing -- is the prediction the images?

What exactly is predicted and what is the actual path in those videos?