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Red Lobster did go bankrupt after a PE firm bought them. But it was also after that PE firm sold them to a non-PE company. There’s an elitist strain to economic populism where they have utter contempt for the people they’re trying to persuade.
I don't know what Google's policies on sharing anonymized data across services are, but given that they have Gemini and Maps, they're uniquely qualified to see if AI causes a big enough reduction in visits to doctors, CPAs, etc. that...
Great post illustrating the opposite of its actual point: big rigs use 25bn gallons of diesel each year, so we could offset this wasteful activity by making them 0.0007% more efficient. Or 0.0014% more efficient if you count the return...
When they make movies with AI versions of now-dead actors, will they update them as models get better? Will there be purists who insist that the 2027 version just doesn't have the soul of the '26 original?
If you were Ken Griffin, how much would you pay Anthropic to do this? Feel free to round to the nearest billion.
I never learned about electronics, so my knowledge is always 5-10 pages in the Sparkfun manual ahead of my 6yo’s. (This project is an LED that can be toggled on and off by a photoresistor.) https://t.co/nO6A6BgYZS
It's a kind of interesting literary development that one of the most popular kinds of LLM-written content is fiction about LLMs replacing all the jobs. These stories reliably do numbers, and apparently their audience doesn't notice or care that it's...
So I've read a few long essays on how abusive pharmaceutical benefit managers and group purchasing organizations are, and they all make a strong case. And then I look at the companies that own PBMs, and their margins are a)...
