For that juicy bit, start at 35:30. The other part of this video that stood out to me was his description of the hardware that they sell. Specifically the point that to call it a “chip” misleads by association, because […]
He has a great example of a research and charting task that he wanted to assign to AI, but couldn’t for reasons he explains. It voiced a lot of my personal frustrations with LLMs at the moment. “We’ve had ChatGPT […]
The incredible hydraulic dancing robot, the one that we’ve grown to love and fear, is retired. It’s makers posted a goodbye bloopers reel. Boston Dynamics would like to introduce us to the new all-electric Atlas by way of an kinda […]
The Chicago-based, VC-backed local grocery market and cafe that I have been a big fan of for several years suddenly closed the doors on all their stores this week. I lived very near to one in Wicker Park, and when […]
If you have spent anywhere close to as many hours writing SQL code as me, you’ll probably love it as much as I did. The first 7 minutes set the stage for how SQL can be so cumbersome. Then, Lloyd […]
A tale of two startup biotechs strategies. “All value comes from clinical products. But it’s only possible to build a generational biotech company with a foundational technology platform capable of developing multiple products.” ~ learn more
“Compared to software businesses, services performed by humans tend to be low margin, hard to scale exponentially, lumpy in revenue, etc. etc. There are many cautionary tales. But change is afoot… hastened by AI, cracking open new, huge opportunities for […]
With podcast host Dwarkesh Patel, he discusses Llama 3 (and 4) and the how regulations around energy production could become the rate-limiter for AI because data centers are power hungry. ~ learn more
“Byron Tau’s Means of Control is a fun look at the world of government entities buying data from private companies for law enforcement and intelligence purposes. For anyone who’s had experience working with data for hedge funds, or using it […]
“People’s inability to maintain their independence is going to have a massive ripple effect on our world, with major implications to our society (loneliness, increased family caregiving demands), economy (rising health costs, lost productivity), healthcare system (stress on our already […]