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This is what I think of when I think of personalized pricing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVlT3uHlNAg&t=111s It's pretty much what I've done when selling at flea mar…

If you want to believe that the success of Kimi is about distillation attacks, ignore this.

Turns out it was a trust calibrating exercise that the whole team learned from.

We had a contractor doing repairs before we sold our house. Without being asked he took an orbital sander to the wooden hand railings along the stairs to the front door and said "people really no…

To vaporize 10^21 kg of seawater from ~4 °C to 100 °C would require ~10^27 joules, around 16 trillion Hiroshimas or ~2.5 seconds of the sun's output.

There's been no biological change in humans in 40,000 or 50,000 years. Everything we call culture and civilization we’ve built with the same body and brain. -- Stephen Jay Gould, "The S…

> When manufacturing turned into electrified factories and conveyor belts, there wasn't waves of massive layoffs. And AI these days come nowhere near close to conveyor belts or electrification…

The claim isn't about the age of rock, but that the surface has churned almost everywhere. Israel does contain the oldest measured continuous surface at about 1.8M yo, but nobody claims to have l…

Mighty rivers start as a trickle. Enough trickles and fetch happens.

With current tech we are close to having a babel fish to put in our ear as a near universal translator. I have a dream that this will enable huge linguistic diversity, even down to one language per pe…

Still available. https://github.com/permissionlesstech/bitchat