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HBD NBA CHAMP BRIAN SCALABRINE!
George “The Messiah” Papoutsis said he could beat Scalabrine so the 46-year-old White Mamba went to "The Cage" and beat him 11-0
Scal in 2013: "I'm closer to LeBron than you are to me."
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@RubberGetsLiqd if car companies actually did this, let alone Jeep, the cherokee would still be a POS new
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i wish car manufacturers would bring older models back. change absolutely nothing, just make them brand new
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@_kaitodev @karpathy This is fascinating but how is it determining accuracy
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5 minutes ago, @karpathy just dropped karpathy/jobs!
he scraped every job in the US economy (342 occupations from BLS), scored each one's AI exposure 0-10 using an LLM, and visualized it as a treemap.
if your whole job happens on a screen you're cooked.
average score across all jobs is 5.3/10.
software devs: 8-9.
roofers: 0-1.
medical transcriptionists: 10/10 💀
karpathy.ai/jobs
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Who is stopping this Jets offense?
QB - Geno Smith
RB - Breece Hall
WR - Garrett Wilson
WR - Adonai Mitchell
TE - Mason Taylor
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Mark Zuckerberg posted a photo with Alexandr Wang to on Threads to shut down the rumors, but because it's Threads, no one has any idea who it is or why he's posting it
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The first trailer for ‘LANTERNS’ has been released.
Releasing in August on HBO.
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BLUE BOTTLE COFFEE ACQUIRED BY LUCKIN FOR $400M
A couple months ago, it was reported that Nestlé was exploring a sale of Blue Bottle Coffee - the property it invested ~$450m in to acquire a 68% stake in 2017.
Fast forward 9 years later, & Luckin Coffee is acquiring Blue Bottle for just a touch less than the principal nestle invested.
Prior to Nestle's acquisition, Blue Bottle had raised over $100m from the likes of Index Ventures, Google Ventures, and more.
Philz Coffee & La Colombe Coffee Workshop also recently traded hands.
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@eriktorenberg because the category in itself only has substantial demand for a very small subsection of good
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Why aren’t there more Twitch style streamers in tech?
It feels like there’s white space in streaming for tech creators, especially relative to podcasts and newsletters which are more saturated.
TBPN and a few others have shown there’s substantial demand for it when it’s good.
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A statement from Anthropic CEO, Dario Amodei, on our discussions with the Department of War.
anthropic.com/news/statement…
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we're making @blocks smaller today. here's my note to the company.
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today we're making one of the hardest decisions in the history of our company: we're reducing our organization by nearly half, from over 10,000 people to just under 6,000. that means over 4,000 of you are being asked to leave or entering into consultation. i'll be straight about what's happening, why, and what it means for everyone.
first off, if you're one of the people affected, you'll receive your salary for 20 weeks + 1 week per year of tenure, equity vested through the end of may, 6 months of health care, your corporate devices, and $5,000 to put toward whatever you need to help you in this transition (if you’re outside the U.S. you’ll receive similar support but exact details are going to vary based on local requirements). i want you to know that before anything else. everyone will be notified today, whether you're being asked to leave, entering consultation, or asked to stay.
we're not making this decision because we're in trouble. our business is strong. gross profit continues to grow, we continue to serve more and more customers, and profitability is improving. but something has changed. we're already seeing that the intelligence tools we’re creating and using, paired with smaller and flatter teams, are enabling a new way of working which fundamentally changes what it means to build and run a company. and that's accelerating rapidly.
i had two options: cut gradually over months or years as this shift plays out, or be honest about where we are and act on it now. i chose the latter. repeated rounds of cuts are destructive to morale, to focus, and to the trust that customers and shareholders place in our ability to lead. i'd rather take a hard, clear action now and build from a position we believe in than manage a slow reduction of people toward the same outcome. a smaller company also gives us the space to grow our business the right way, on our own terms, instead of constantly reacting to market pressures.
a decision at this scale carries risk. but so does standing still. we've done a full review to determine the roles and people we require to reliably grow the business from here, and we've pressure-tested those decisions from multiple angles. i accept that we may have gotten some of them wrong, and we've built in flexibility to account for that, and do the right thing for our customers.
we're not going to just disappear people from slack and email and pretend they were never here. communication channels will stay open through thursday evening (pacific) so everyone can say goodbye properly, and share whatever you wish. i'll also be hosting a live video session to thank everyone at 3:35pm pacific. i know doing it this way might feel awkward. i'd rather it feel awkward and human than efficient and cold.
to those of you leaving…i’m grateful for you, and i’m sorry to put you through this. you built what this company is today. that's a fact that i'll honor forever. this decision is not a reflection of what you contributed. you will be a great contributor to any organization going forward.
to those staying…i made this decision, and i'll own it. what i'm asking of you is to build with me. we're going to build this company with intelligence at the core of everything we do. how we work, how we create, how we serve our customers. our customers will feel this shift too, and we're going to help them navigate it: towards a future where they can build their own features directly, composed of our capabilities and served through our interfaces. that's what i'm focused on now. expect a note from me tomorrow.
jack
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