Yes, though not an engineering one. At SpaceX she handles business development, strategy, and ops, though she was trained as an engineer and did it previously in her career. I think this is almost the more impressive feat here, not to diminish the engineering leap.
Definitely a name that won’t be forgotten anytime soon.
I think the supplemental appropriation that the FAA got as part of the OBB is probably too big to be spent.
Unless you just hand it all to a contractor, it takes time and oversight to spend billions. Legally and practically.
"It's the safest system in the world, I mean, uh, except that it's horribly outdated with switches from the 80s and radars from the 70s, so we really need 50 billion dollars from congress STAT or we're in big trouble, but it's completely safe. Also Congress needs to give Trump the Builder this money _now_. We couldn't get it in the past couple of years even though we controlled the entire government. I mean, sure, we got 12 billion, but that's not enough to unfuck what Joe Biden did. Your loved ones are completely safe by the way, but we can't promise this won't happen again."
I'm sure they couldn't figure out the process of procedures required to really inflict harm so they went after immigrants based on their data. Following a data trail with Claude is easier than actually governing.
At the same time game dev competitions and showcases are being shutdown because “all the AI slop”. I agree with you completely but I also know there’s going to be a lot more noise as people try.
I threw away all TVs in my house after the proliferation of ads on the Home Screen. Sorry, the only value a TV has is displaying images and audio at large sizes. Not getting me to shop. So I decided to get rid of them all and now I use large monitors and projectors. Make TVs dumb again.
Not really, it’s about anyone with a receiver that’s physically near you using radio “shadows” to detect movement. The author just happened to do these particular measurements using TV signals; they explicitly mention that radio signals in other bands also work.
This likely requires opening the case and physically disabling (hence knowing what you are doing). Or the TV will find other devices to transmit the data. Not an easy measure for everyone.
Amazon Sidewalk is an example of an opt-out long-range cross-household device mesh/relay network using Bluetooth and LoRa to exfiltrate surveillance data.
My point was mainly about exfiltrating surveillance data from devices that weren't explicitly given a network connection. Being served ads is a secondary concern.
You know that many TVs these days have deals with companies like Comcast to allow them to join the open wifi networks they don't allow you to not broadcast from your home, right?
We all knew it was coming. There’s only so much space with current capacity, speeds, and hardware.
We would need to change how we compute. New chips. New architectures. Or maybe we reached the end of physics. Photonic compute is the last frontier. I don’t know.
I don't think the problem is computing.
The method has always had a fatal flaw.
Even if they double computing and time, they will not have enough content and even if they did, probably they would not increase proportionally.
They are doing IPO now because it might become apparent that they reached a limit in the next year
This is what happens when you treat the LLM as a black box, you end up building the same stuff around it. Like trying to make your dog understand your intentions. You can train it to do tricks and it recognizes specific reward patterns but most dogs have no idea what you’re saying beyond basic triggers.
It's sad what software engineering has been reduced to for a lot of people. It's basically pickup artists compiling a list of "body languages" for LLMs, pretending as if there's science behind any of their interpretations.
That may be so, but most "body language tips" circulated online are cringey and lack the rigor and nuance of proper scientific studies. I think of human reactions as more complex than what those kinds of online materials imply.
It's even worse when applied to LLMs, which are more unpredictable.
People had this grand idea of software engineering and how much complex it is and problem solving and this and that and you actually deserve 250k to do your “complex” job.
In reality many of them have not needed to look at a data structure or do any real computer science for years. They were just attending bullshit meetings and approving some pr with some basic sql query or some new react code.
Common people knew very little about computers and so they thought they were running on magic and that the software engineers were the magicians.
Can't we just appreciate computer science, or any other field of study, for what it is? It's unfortunate that so many people now treat the fundamentals underpinning our whole profession as a nuisance to be left for LLMs, or resume padding.
Such a great game. Afterwards I needed more and ended up finding this other game called Neocron which kinda ran the same vein but was no where near as good.
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