tech, startups, internet

Scaling test-time compute.

The new dimension of AI scaling is here. “Rather than relying on ever-larger pretraining budgets, test-time methods use dynamic inference strategies that allow models to “think longer” on harder problems. A prominent example is OpenAI’s o1 model, which shows consistent […]

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The oldest forest in the world.

“Van Straeten is a paleobotanist at the New York State Museum, and in 2018, he and his team made a remarkable discovery right here in our region: a 385-million-year-old forest, the oldest in the world. Fossils of the forest’s root […]

retail therapy

An open letter to Jeff Bezos and Amazon.

Several very good and critical points within. “I have been selling on Amazon for over 10 years, my company has paid yours well over $24 million dollars, and your attorneys have deposed me for 8 hours. The problem with Amazon […]

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Waymo’s insurer feels really good about their safety.

“Today, we’re sharing our new cutting-edge research with Swiss Re, one of the world’s leading reinsurers, analyzing liability claims related to collisions from 25.3 million fully autonomous miles driven by Waymo. … It demonstrates that … the Waymo Driver significantly […]

tech, startups, internet

Tesla’s Optimus robot — still wow.

“These runs are on mulched ground, where I’ve myself slipped before. What’s really crazy here is that for these, Optimus is actually blind! Keeping its balance without video (yet), only other on-board sensors consumed by a neural net running in […]

tech, startups, internet

The Google Willow thing.

You may have seen the announcement about Google’s latest quantum computer. “Scientifically, the headline result is that, as they increase the size of their surface code, from 3×3 to 5×5 to 7×7, Google finds that their encoded logical qubit stays […]

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UK beer baron keeps a collection of vacant historic pubs.

“Founded in 1758, Samuel Smith Old Brewery is one of the largest family-owned brewery and pub operations in the UK.” … and … “Since the 1970s, Humphrey Smith has acquired scores of pubs and historic properties around the UK. But […]

tech, startups, internet

An open source AI agent framework.

“Eliza is a powerful multi-agent simulation framework designed to create, deploy, and manage autonomous AI agents. Built with TypeScript, it provides a flexible and extensible platform for developing intelligent agents that can interact across multiple platforms while maintaining consistent personalities […]