When I visited Google’s campus, I wondered what was going on next door at NASA’s Ames Research Center. This article about the airship company Lighter Than Air sheds some light on it. “Built inside a giant hangar in Mountain View, […]
This paper argues that by choosing the specific tests and measures that most researchers gravitate toward, they bias the results to look like emergence. “Specifically, nonlinear or discontinuous metrics produce apparent emergent abilities, whereas linear or continuous metrics produce smooth, […]
Oliver Cameron has been working on this since 2016 when he and a team began working on an open-source self-driving car. Since then, every part of the stack has moved from rules-based to using machine-learning, and the outcomes in performance […]
VC Hunter Walk suggests a wild strategy for those who face a dwindling cash pile and no prospects of a fundraise: announce publicly that you’re for sale. ~ learn more
“This removes the barrier of entry to machine learning. Control 100,000+ HF models by talking to Transformers and Diffusers. Fully multimodal agent: text, images, video, audio, docs…” ~ learn more
“When I go up the mountain to ask the ChatGPT oracle a question, I am met with a blank face. What does this oracle know? How should I ask my question? And when it responds, it is endlessly confident. I […]
Point, click and drag, and magic happens on the screen. ~ learn more
Matt Levine, in his “Money Stuff” column, covers the legality behind the terrible merger that was Block + Tidal: “Or if you are the CEO of a payments company and you want to buy Jay-Z’s music streaming company because you […]
This is very interesting because it seems that soon the mounting hardware and installation will become the limiting factors to cost-reduction in solar power generation. “Erthos … will become the only utility-scale solar farm mounted flat on the ground to […]
Carta’s doing some content marketing with their data (which is arguably pretty good). “Total venture capital raised by startups plunged 80% from Q1 2022 to Q1 2023. Venture deal count fell 45% over the same span. Overall, Q1 was the […]