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Caught up with @karpathy for a new @NoPriorsPod: on the phase shift in engineering, AI psychosis, claws, AutoResearch, the opportunity for a SETI-at-Home like movement in AI, the model landscape, and second order effects 02:55 - What Capability Limits Remain? 06:15 - What Mastery of Coding Agents Looks Like 11:16 - Second Order Effects of Coding Agents 15:51 - Why AutoResearch 22:45 - Relevant Skills in the AI Era 28:25 - Model Speciation 32:30 - Collaboration Surfaces for Humans and AI 37:28 - Analysis of Jobs Market Data 48:25 - Open vs. Closed Source Models 53:51 - Autonomous Robotics and Atoms 1:00:59 - MicroGPT and Agentic Education 1:05:40 - End Thoughts
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Ready for a long winded Babz rant? Buckle up. Fanatics has absolutely ruined everything when it comes to sports apparel. They’re such a juggernaut now, that it doesn’t matter what we say or do. They’re too big to fail. The quality of everything has gone down hill while the price continues to climb. Maybe it’s a pandemic thing? I just feel everything pre-2020 has quality to it. But then they realized people will still pay top dollar for lesser quality. That’s what we get now. It’s insanity. Listen. Im just a man-child who wears cargo shorts 365 days a year. So my take on fashion doesn’t mean much. Everyone has different tastes. I’m not going to knock anyone on what they personally like. My gripe is that they over saturate the apparel market with really bad quality merch which is over priced. Example. $160 for a fashion jersey (that the team doesn’t even wear) and they look like something you’d buy at the Walmart rack. Maybe you like the style, that’s cool, but it shouldn’t cost the same as the same jersey they wear on the field. You’re getting ripped off. I’ve noticed recently they try to keep up with public image by throwing crumbs at influencers. They’ll ship you free gear in a cool box or have you promote the Fanatics Fest, knowing you’ll talk highly about the company. People love free shit, so why not. It’s a good marketing strategy. Will I continue buying from Fanatics? Yes. If I see something I like, I will get it. Which is part of the problem. I have no choice. I just really wish they didn’t have a stranglehold like they currently do on everything sports. Even look at @drakemayeloverr and what he did with the I ❤️ Drake Maye shirts. Just a unique, fan driven movement that eventually corporations need to get their hands involved to make their buck. I just really wish we didn’t get so ripped off as a society. I’m sick of it.
Ever wonder why sedans disappeared and every car is huge now? "Thanks, Obama!" His administration changed fuel economy standards in a way that had the perverse impact of making cars even bigger. Here are all the vehicles for sale by the 3 largest US automakers. 62 vehicles, 4 sedans (6%). 20 years ago this chart would have been ~50% sedans! What happened? Obama administration changed auto fuel efficiency rules to tie fuel economy targets to vehicle size. Under the new system: -The bigger the car's footprint, the easier the MPG target was. -Light trucks (including SUVs and crossovers) had far lower requirements than passenger cars. -Crossovers were quietly reclassified as "trucks," giving them a huge regulatory advantage. Instead of building lighter, more efficient cars, automakers simply made everything bigger, and made more trucks and SUVs. Notice that cars that used to be sedans are now crossovers? They do this so it counts as a light truck - they raise ground clearance, square off the rear for cargo capacity, and meet off-road approach minimums so they get qualified as a light truck. Think Subaru Legacy > Subaru Outback. As you can see in the chart, it's a LOT easier to meet MPG requirements if your vehicle is classified that way. So cars got LARGER to meet fuel efficiency goals. The new Honda Civic is 20 inches longer and 4 inches wider than it used to be, about the same size as an old Accord. By making the Civic larger, Honda slightly shifted it into a more favorable regulatory category. ...and smaller cars disappeared. The Honda Fit was a great little car, but would have had to hit 67 MPG in 2026, which would be nearly impossible... so instead, Honda stopped selling them. So, the only way to make small vehicles now is to make them EV's (Chevy Bolt). The Slate truck that is all the rage now is only possible because it's an EV... otherwise its footprint would have demanded an overly onerous MPG target. So in short - Obama era CAFE standards had the opposite of the desired impact: sedans died, vehicles ballooned in size, and America's streets turned into an SUV parking lot. All thanks to a policy that accidentally incentivized bloat instead of efficiency. Don't get me started on "cash for clunkers!"
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