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We've seen one singularity before!

Consolidation != memorization.

Memorising some examples is a prerequisite to deep understanding. Anki and pen+ paper reasoning are complementary.

Crazy how forward thinking this guy was in 2005 vs today.

I remember the Saturn V being caught by chopsticks in mid air too.

Starship is fantastic value for money compared to Artemis!

Some of the talent at Cursor is second to none. E.g Less Wright, Sasha Rush, Stuart Sul.

Google paid 2.5B to bring Noam back into the fold in 2024 ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

The guy who uncovered this, Sholto David, is basically just awesome?

Watch him cycle from Wales -> China in 90 days: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdgHZPfivVA

This isn't his first fraud rodeo either. For his discovery of serious fraud by the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in 2024, he received $2.6 million.

Be more like Sholto, exercise your free will!

Anyone have recommendations on books that can rival the first part of Accelerando in number of prescient ideas about how the near future, pre singularity might look?

My own list is:

  Starmaker by Olaf Stapledon
  Counting Heads by David Marusek
  Nexus by Ramez Naam
  Rainbows End by Vernor Vinge

But I'm always on the look out for more! The more predictive the better!

Hasn't fMRI as a whole been called into question? https://www.nature.com/articles/s41593-025-02132-9

In a country with a national health system, why should you be able to internalize the benefit of smoking whilst externalizing the cost?

Why ruin good work by letting Claude write it all? Full of em dashes, riddled with Claudisms.

Unreadable Claude slop

This was mostly down to enormous pressure from his father, causing him to have a breakdown in his early twenties.

Not to say the results weren't incredible, but certainly required sacrifice.

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/10378/10378-h/10378-h.htm#li...

Completely false: https://x.com/i/status/2019213765506670738

Listen to the statement.

The operators help when the Waymo is in a "difficult situation".

Car drives itself 99% of the time, long tail of issues not yet fixed have a human intervene.

Everyone is making out like it's an RC car, completely false.

How many of these are due to going outside the normal envelope of what birds do?

It takes a different code path for efficiency.

e.g

if (batch_size > 1024): kernel_x else: kernel_y

But why is FSD "failing" is the key question.

Hint: it's not the sensor inputs that are the bottleneck!

I like the comparison, but with aviation on a fundamental level we made it simpler (removing actuation), not added more (senses we dont need)

How can you say camera only navigation won’t work with such finality when humans manage just fine every day! You literally have an existence proof of it working.

I love this, the interday variability in my intelligence is extremely annoying.

Mr Kwok already analysed these deals and gave them a nice little acronym: HALO

https://kwokchain.com/2025/07/15/the-halo-effect/

He did not "create" the TPU. He contributed to the creation of the TPU.

There are 66 authors on the original TPU paper: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3079856.3080246

He went from being unable to eat many foods, to eating a full cheese pizza on camera. Pretty sure it worked.

The paternalistic state does not allow you autonomy over your own body.

e.g the amount of backlash thought emporium got when he genetically engineered himself to remove lactose intolerance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3FcbFqSoQY

Risky, but it's his body!

Very interesting data point

Dante and Nebula have a bad reputation. ySeq has an 8 month wait list. This guys Nanopore sequencer doesn’t work.

It is quite hard to get yourself sequenced in EU in 2025.

How certain are you of this really? I'd take this bet with you.

You're saying that we won't achieve AGI in ~80 years, or roughly 2100, equivalent to the time since the end WW2.

To quote Shane Legg from 2009:

"It looks like we’re heading towards 10^20 FLOPS before 2030, even if things slow down a bit from 2020 onwards. That’s just plain nuts. Let me try to explain just how nuts: 10^20 is about the number of neurons in all human brains combined. It is also about the estimated number of grains of sand on all the beaches in the world. That’s a truly insane number of calculations in 1 second."

Are humans really so incompetent that we can't replicate what nature produced through evolutionary optimization with more compute than in EVERY human brain?

Throw away the H1B, introduce streamlined high skill immigration to the US. Top 1% of talent from all over the world should be able to move in under 2 weeks.

The first country that cracks this will have streets paved with gold.

Looking forward to the relegation of FASTQ and FASTA to the depths of hell where they belong. Incredibly inefficient and poorly designed formats.

Would you like to place a bet on it?