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@beammeupscotti7 @naranciagaming It was originally meant to be "Nvision"/"Envision" but that was taken in 1993, so Jensen Huang looked in a Latin dictionary for something similar, "invidia". The Scandinavian metal band Ensiferum also opened a Latin dictionary and named themselves the same way, in 1995.

@naranciagaming WHY did they think this was a good name? This is interesting to know but damn is it a lil dismal

if you wrote a story about art and society being destroyed by a megacorporation named after the latin word for "envy" your editor would run out of ink

@finflexity @firstadopter It's surprising APKWS use isn't common niche knowledge, but even if not, "cost curve" is a fallacy. You pay to avoid the damage the drone causes, which is the value of its target, not its interceptor. Especially when it's not an indefinite conflict.

@firstadopter Prime example from today: defense lead at Bloomberg doesn't know that CENTCOM has been using APKWS missiles to down drones since 2 years (which not only invalidates her cost point but shifts the advantage away from the Iranian side). x.com/becca_wasser/s…

Not only is most of the media non-technical about AI chips and tech, they are generally clueless about military hardware. Just like how the first Gulf War validated the effectiveness of the Abrams tank and the Apache helicopter, silencing the critics, the Iran conflict is proving the F-35 is a kick-ass plane with dominant air superiority. A vindication for America's defense industry.

@anistotle_ @firstadopter It is plausibly a human mistake, since if you do a quick search for the Discover ticker, it will tell you and even the "current price" without dating it to 2025. If you ask a chatbot, it will give you the context that it was acquired. Still a blunder of course.

@firstadopter The fact that Citrini missed on Discover no longer trading frankly makes me think more and more that some of the text was AI generated and rewritten How do you miss that if you're making such a claim?

STOP THE PRESSES. TAE KIM COMMENDS FINANCIAL MEDIA FOR THEIR SPOT ON, SOBER COVERAGE. "I want to commend the media today, which surprisingly covered the story with appropriate skepticism and a grain of salt, not overhyping Citrini’s AI doomsday scenario. Shout out to The Financial Times"

@shady_vc @GergelyOrosz I think agents can reduce friction, but the value of Doordash is more similar to eBay. It is a reputation system for all parties involved, and a dispute resolution system. Why is it not more valuable to invest in one identity vs. hundreds fractured across marketplace apps?

DoorDash is a great example, actually. 1) Every side of their marketplace feels scammed by it, the restaurants, the users and the drivers 2) They exist in spite of this because they have a captive market 3) This captive market arises from **human** behavior. Users are just habituated and because the users are in the app, the rests and drivers have to be there too 4) Here’e the crux of the argument: Agents aren’t lazy, they can check three different apps and the restaurant’s website 5) Suddenly the “humans are lazy” moat evaporates. Restaurants can just undercut DD’s margin on their website to get the agent’s order through another channel

Eh. I just don’t buy this because I actually understand specific examples all too well: 1. It paints a picture of DoorDash disrupted by vibe coded alternatives. Dude. DoorDash / Uber moat is NOT software!! It’s real-world physical logistics. AI cannot disrupt DD… 2. (cont’d)

@firstadopter OpenAI taking money from Saudi Arabia is fine though, since Anthropic does that too. No influence or chilling effects from that.

Spot on. Anthropic tries to portray itself as the ethical company, but what’s with the dirty dishonest tactics? I remember when Anthropic tried to conflate AI GPU smuggling with a lobster story when in reality it was old display adapters. Just dirty, misleading tactics. Play hard and fair if your brand is trying to be the good guys.

@The_AI_Investor I like how for the past decade, someone who just uncritically accepted Jensen Huang at face value saying everything will be great would have had a better grasp on reality than anyone spending hours trying to read between the lines when he says everything will be great.

Media: $NVDA is down after CEO Jensen Huang played down the chipmaker’s pledge to invest $100 billion in OpenAI. Also media: $NVDA is down after Jensen Huang and Sam Altman announced a $100 billion Nvidia investment in OpenAI, with investors raising concerns about an AI bubble and circular deals.

@Girv0ne @mrt0057 @KathleenWinche3 His literal words are "Do you have to pay a debt collector? No. Should you pay a debt collector? Absolutely not." That is legal advice, and it is also incorrect.

@mrt0057 @KathleenWinche3 He isn't giving advice. He's explaining your lawful rights. Also, work for yourself, don't use credit, and hold nothing in your name.

Seems like sound advice! I have never had this problem but I’m sure people do!

@mrt0057 @KathleenWinche3 The third party collector can also own the debt, the debt is the right to collect, and it is transferable. The new owner of the debt can sue and get a judgment, and then even sell the judgment to someone else who can enforce it via seizures and liens.

@KathleenWinche3 You are giving bad advice. the FDCPA applies to a 3rd party debt collectors. A 3rd party means that they do not own the debt but were hired to collect it. It was not sold to them. And you can be sued and your wages garnished. This will affect your credit report.

@IsThisA3DModel @Google Mountains aren't created by humans and people enjoy walking on those a lot, a lot of hikers sustain interest in natureslop

@Google We want worlds created by humans. We don't want your slop world walking simulators.

Introducing Project Genie: An experimental research prototype powered by Genie 3, our world model, that lets you prompt an interactive world into existence — and then step inside 🌎

@MongolianBeast1 @Dslyecxi The Constitution is our already established laws, and they are failing to enforce them. They are also mediocre at enforcing immigration laws, getting bogged down and stoking resistance to their own agenda with unnecessary bumbling.

@Dslyecxi You dysgenic freaks think enforcing our already established laws are tyrannical. You don't have any standards, you just have optics.

Are there any actual Guntuber types out there that are opposing this fascist regime and the extrajudicial killings? Or did they all just end up being a bunch of hot air conmen at the end of the day?

@TheHoody27 @golub These videos are more like bait for anyone with no farming experience, which is 99% of the population. Satire requires having a point, this is just stirring the nest for the pleasure of witnessing the cruelty from the 99%.

@golub Ever heard of Satire ?? It’s not to late to take it down 😂

MAGA farmers are learning Economics 101 the hard way

@eevblog @geerlingguy The EEVblog voice is an asset. It's called SEO.

@geerlingguy I've got such a shit and hated voice, no one would want to clone it 😁

ElevenLabs just got nuked by open source

@J__Lory @KimKatieUSA If their activities actually amounted to terrorism, the federal agents would arrest them, not just tell them they are on an internal watchlist. They are wasting their time talking to activists instead of doing deportations, which is the goal of the activism.

@KimKatieUSA ...

BREAKING Portland, Maine: This exchange is PURE GOLD. Rabid Responder: "It's not illegal to record" ICE: "Exactly! That's what we're doing." RR: "Why are you taking my information?" ICE: "We have a nice little database and now you are considered a domestic terrorist!" 🤣🤣🤣

@BethBridges @RyanSaavedra This post is not even a partial transcript, it leaves out Newsom's words: "[states] that tax their low wage earners more than California taxes its high wage earners". Core point, comparing actual tax burdens. That was omitted, and subtitles are disabled.

@RyanSaavedra I want a full transcript because it could be a world record for the most words uttered with the fewest actual statements that meant anything.

Ben Shapiro: "How about radically lowering the income tax rates in the state?" Gavin Newsom: "California has tax, I mean there's 16 states right now, let's talk about those 16 states" Shapiro: "Why don't we talk about California? That's why we're on your show" Newsom: "Let's talk about lowering those tax rates in those 16 states"

@chinmarinero @Jere_Memez @UltraDane Those factors are most of it, but it's also that during normal flight or landing into wind, the rotor's path will be tilted a few degrees forward, which can turn 11.5ft into maybe 8-10ft. Then uneven terrain and droop easily get it down to 6ft.

The 407 rotor tip height above ground at ground idle with rotors turning is approximately 11.5 to 12 feet (3.5 to 3.7 meters), depending on exact skid gear (low vs. high), aircraft loading, tire/skid compression, and minor coning effects. This is close to the published overall height of the helicopter. Answer was further down the thread. Pilot may have engaged the rotor brake to come to a complete stop, not idling in place while waiting to load. That would make the blades droop as they slow.

The small helicopters can be EXTREMELY dangerous. My brother-in-law is a helicopter pilot, he always says... ''they are called 'choppers' for a reason''. Although the pilot(s) warned Jorge Castellanos, he still approached the helicopter without stooping over.

@RealbianchiJan @swombat @Dr_Gingerballs @SuperStringChz AI is calculators

Folks, heres a list of things not happening by 2030 that you can take to the bank: -AGI or any AI at all -Autonomous vehicles deployed generally -Autonomous robots of any kind -datacenters in space All of these technologies currently rely on regression to work. The first 3 use regression to compute predictions. The last one relies on the regression compute to be practical. All automation up until this point more or less relies on regression. It is incremental, not revolutionary, and IT DOESN’T SCALE. We are seeing this now, as models have now consumed all of the data on the planet and still can’t quite do anything correctly. In small domains with lots of data, it can be practical. Nearly all automation we have today leans on small domains to remain tractable. Once the domain expands, the problem blows up. Variance is the death of regression, data be damned. And the future is more variance than trend. Humans excel because they are not statistical. They are superstitious. Adaption is quick, but leaves many data points unexplained. Most people who are extremely productive go their whole lives strongly believing a whole host of things that are not true. It is precisely our lack of statistical rigor that makes us effective. So when you try to recreate human superstition with statistics, compute will blow up and edge cases will snuff it out in the night. It is a certainty that regressive methods are a dead end. A certainty. It is not practical to require 10,000 humans worth of energy to recreate 1 human output. Now could someone discover how the mind works and the methods it uses? Absolutely. But no one is looking for it because they are getting paid millions a year to bark up another tree. And once discovered, then a roadmap must be built to get us to systems that can perform it. We must design new chips, develop new material systems, new compute structures, how to interface them with conventional computing, and on and on and on. It’s a decade+ job once the roadmap has been developed. We don’t even know where to start! The sooner we abandon the bankrupt religious belief that AI will save us, the better we will be. Because every day we ignore reality is another day for our problems to metastasize. AI will not solve our problems. Robots will not solve our problems. We must solve our problems ourselves. And we could start building a roadmap for that today.

@MailnVoter @spttestslope @financedystop There are many cancers with a 20+ year survival rate of 80-90% that still cost a lot to treat. That is de facto a cure for an individual who dies of other causes in that time. Choosing to die early from treatable illness will still make sense to a lot of people of course.

When she tells people she doesn’t have health insurance, they freak out but their copays are about what she pays out of pocket anyway

@HyperTechInvest @tuncerdeniz Nvidia didn't compete on networking, and Nvidia doesn't compete for Groq's exact use case. Both expand Nvidia's market without competing against itself. In either case, Nvidia gets the AI infrastructure talent. Overall far more complementary than overlap.

I’m guessing you mean Mellanox, but that was a completely different acquisition. Groq overlaps with their business, it doesn’t just complement it. By acquiring Groq for $20B, they would effectively be admitting that Groq does several things better than they do. It would also imply that the internal R&D cost of matching Groq would be far higher than $20B. In any case, it doesn’t even seem to be true.

$NVDA buying Groq is more a sign of weakness than a sign of strength

@batteryscott @StevenSimoni The turret shoots out the fires automatically as well

@StevenSimoni The range fire truck is on standby I presume?

The typical reaction to drones being shot by bullfrog is that they explode

@lukeweston Seems way off. Wheat is a mean of 1000kcal for 1.4m2 per year, so 182,000kcal per year for a 16x16 plot at average productivity. So that's around 50kg of wheat, not 1.7kg. Also record wheat yield is 250 bushels/acre, 50 is easily attainable. Is there more to it?

An acre, if it’s square, is about 64 x 64 m. The “grain” area is, let’s say roughly, 16 x 16m. USA wheat yields are ~50 bushels per acre- that’s with modern varieties, fertiliser, agrochemicals, modern harvesting and all such tools. Anyway… The wheat yield is 1.7 kg per year.