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I don’t think this is true. Opposition is not really related to aesthetics. People fight even theoretical housing (zoning). NIMBYs oppose building housing on derelict / ugly lots. Architectural r…

We need a master list of companies with such stupid metrics :)

We have http://layoffs.fyi and https://www.trueup.io/ to name a few places that track this pretty well…

It’s more effective to convince people 95% of beef is very mid. So you’re not missing anything I would never argue for banning red meat as it will certainly backfire and end up counterproductive.

Do whatever you want. I'm just sharing my personal choices based on what I've learned. What could be more American than that? :)

On the ecological point, the difference is whether the grassland would naturally support that number of bison. Or if bison (or cows) are continually being grown, killed, grown killed at industrial sca…

My research seems to indicate its about on-par with chicken. IE a chicken filet is about the carbon impact of 8oz of milk. And it seems here its about 1/4 carbon per kg of food as beef: https:&#…

The next frontier will be meat consumption. Particularly red meat. A single 1/4 beef hamburger emits 7-12 kg of carbon[1]. Compared to ~1.5kg of carbon driving your car 3 miles[2]. Not telling yo…

At least "Claude said" is honest. What's worse is when people send you slop and pass it off as their own work and expect you to take it seriously.

Thank you! <3

Hamming w/xor+popcount is the only thing I can make numpy do faster than float32 dot products :) int8s, float16s are all fairly slow. I suppose it’s because BLAS does float32/64 very fast.

The anti-distillation attitude in making the US less competitive in AI. As Meta, X.ai, etc know they'll face legal challenges if they did what Moonshot, etc did. So really its actively against ou…

For the companies it's not clear. For the state, like BVD, the goal is to be a loss-leader for Chinese infrastructure + manufacturing.

You really see the first mover disadvantages in US AI labs. And how second movers (open Chinese labs) can disrupt them. First movers tend to get overcapitalized and way ahead of their skis. You saw a …

The Anthropic safety position may be counterproductive to US AI competitiveness. Between China and US theres a defacto unequal distillation environment. China has no qualms about distilling off other …

Why stigmatize what should be routine? Mental health discussions, especially among men, should be less fraught. Like “I have a cold”

I dunno, ketamine treatment for depression isn't that weird.

Even early 2000s my experience coding was writing code, building it at my PC, copying it to a floppy, carrying it to the device I worked on In the lab, burning the NVRAM with it, rebooting it, and see…

This effort makes me think of the tick-tock oscillation between features and code stewardship I’ve experienced on every agent heavy coding project Tick: go hard after features, build a correct and ext…

In some ways I'm building too much software. It's too easy to get distracted by vibe coding a replacement for some SaaS I rely on. Only to have it be an 80% solution, without polish, and wee…

The “fully automated” factories have humans involved in QA, maintenance and engineering. They often have to stop the factory and investigate and troubleshoot.

There are over 700 engineers that keep the ASE factories going > By 2024, the company has established 56 lights-out factories, trained more than 700 automation engineers, https://www.ase…

If you built a real factory, you’d basically never want it to be dark. You’d want a culture of getting wrenches out to inspect the cars being built. You’d want to care about small details. Not because…

I see we're doing "too big to fail" again...