Will Piot
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In DUNE: PART TWO, the shot of Harkonnen troops “flying” up the cliff was done with stunt performers on real Jordan cliffs, rigged on wires and then enhanced with VFX.
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@tszzl @firstadopter i did not like season 1 of foundation, partly for diverging so far from the books, to the point of having a completely different message, but also because huge parts were not so good. do you think I should give it another shot?
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@Investanswers In the long run, I think you’re correct. Today, however, Waymo is ahead
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Both Gemini and Grok are underrated. I used to champion Gemini for a while, but lately I've been very happy with Grok, especially since the Grok 4.20 release with multi-agent.
And now we have Grok 4.3!
DROID@droidbuilds
Which one is the most underrated here?
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Stanford paid 35,000 people to quit Facebook and Instagram for 6 weeks
Depression dropped. Anxiety dropped. Happiness went up. Women under 25 on Instagram saw the biggest gains
That was 6 weeks. I'm going a full year.
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How deeply inspiring it is to look at the people around you and think: “Wow, every person here has experienced pain and suffering… and yet here we all are trying to do the right thing because we want to leave the world a little better than we found it for our children."
There’s something sacred about catching that thought at exactly the right moment. When you do, you are filled with awe and wonder.
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@CultureCrave Was going see it again in IMAX tonight but something came up
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Chris Miller says 'Project Hail Mary' won't be streaming 'anytime soon' 🎞️
• The film is back in IMAX and just had its theatrical run extended
• Movie has already grossed over $500M
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@ZachWarunek @zeroxjackson Tone of voice is largely how humans communicate emotion
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@zeroxjackson I wish the models could understand audio modality natively so it understands my tone when I’m yelling at it
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Eating the same meals on repeat was associated with 40% greater weight loss.
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A strong signal for Tesla:
When Robotaxi first launched in Austin, there was a human safety monitor onboard (usually in the passenger seat).
On day one in Dallas? No safety monitor at all. Fully unsupervised right from the start.
This isn’t just a new city rollout. It’s expansion with higher confidence
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@SawyerMerritt Do we know if they had to drive around with their validation vehicles beforehand? IMHO, being able to deploy without any prior validation will be the signal that unsupervised FSD is coming for all soon…assuming the hardware is truly the same.
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The fact the Tesla is launching Unsupervised Robotaxi right off the bat in Houston and Dallas makes me more bullish for the speed of the Cybercab rollout. I was expecting the Robotaxi rides in new cities to initially only be offered with safety monitors.
Exciting times!
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@AutismCapital Trump is retardmaxxing. LFG
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Sherry@SchrodingrsBrat
Retardmaxxing is an elegantly simple way of saying there’s no intellectual solution for an existential problem. Like in Coelho’s Alchemist, you end up where you started because you can’t truly depart from yourself - all true transformation is embodied, time yields treasures when there’s momentum, hence “the alchemist”, meaning the person who can make gold is the person who moves, does, attempts, desires, seeks, tries. “He who jumps into the void owes no explanation to those who stand and watch” type beat
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Trump makes a joke about taking anxiety drugs here saying “I don’t have time to be depressed.”
There’s actually a lot of wisdom in that. Anxiety/depression can often be a symptom of inaction/lack of purpose.
When you’re busy moving, it can burn off.
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The books you love are a window into your personality.
•Mystery & self-improvement attract conscientious people
•Sci-fi, psychology, philosophy draw open-minded people
•Memoir & horror appeal to neurotic people
Reading doesn't just shape our views. It reveals what we're like.
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The benefits of reading a book instead of phone scrolling: feeling energized instead of mentally fried.
Phone scrolling = tiring
Book reading = energizing
The next time you have a 10 minute break between commitments, pick up a book and read.
You may be surprised to discover that those 10 minutes actually energize your mind rather than leaving you mentally drained.
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Grokipedia has not received any meaningful update in months …
what’s happening with it
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