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Ships and aircraft can be overweight. Why assume it's an analogy to obesity?

Speak truth to the powers that be at Big Convenience!

It did survive! And it paints a fascinating picture of adaptation. The Yamnaya cultural package brought elite domination and patrilineal succession. So for the I1 line (mesolithic European HG) to not just survive but spread widely across Scandinavia and crowd out the Yamnaya R1 haplogroup suggests that at least one member of the Hunter Gatherers became dominant over the Yamnaya and beat them at the new Bronze Age game they brought to the region.

Early European Farmers displaced the mesolithic Hunter Gatherers in the areas they both inhabited but there wasn't a complete elimination of the HG groups. In fact, the I1 Y haplogroup associated with Germanic tribes comes from the mesolithic Hunter Gatherers, so they obviously were _not_ totally eliminated. Actually, it was the EEF group that was more or less fully eliminated in Scandinavia when the Yamnaya appeared because both groups exploited similar areas. They wanted loess soils along rivers, while the Hunter Gatherers lived near the coastline.

The ark of the covenant was itself a cultural fusion of Egyptian New Kingdom solar barques, used to carry idols, with the practices of the aniconic Midianite Yahwists of the Sinai region. The proto-Levites brought this fusion with them into Canaan, where it melded further with the endogenous Canaanite worship of El.

It's a cool bit of history, but connecting it to diffusion models feels like a bit of a stretch!

Turning RAM into an active coprocessor does feel like an awkward model for that though.

Intel's Advanced Matrix Extensions (AMX) and the dedicated tile registers, which are basically systolic arrays IIUC, seem like a better fit.

But Samsung doesn't have that option so they're playing the card they have.

The Acquired episode about Costco (https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/costco) claims they don't do loss leaders at all.

Yeah, France should try to export its culture sometime!

Also unrelated to Jython, aka the Python implementation on the JVM.

but in the end...

This seems like a particular branding on cache-aware data structures and algorithms. Is there more to it?

Lisp is the perfect family of languages for a config. Homoiconic for seamless config generation. S-expressions for shared human and machine readability.

Ah good point. The Intel Museum in Santa Clara shows signs of that too. Custom labels on bottles of wine to celebrate hittings revenue milestones e.g.

I actually enjoyed the first hand experience of an early-ish Google described at the beginning. For those with enough tenure in tech, was this ethos unique (at the time)? Or was it typical of successful, tech-heavy startups? I could believe an early Sun might've felt similar but I don't know.

Is this equivalent to Google Cloud Fraud Defense? https://cloud.google.com/security/products/fraud-defense

Lots of unsubstantiated claims here

Do you think this is a global phenomenon or regional maybe just in the US or the Anglosphere?

These are still at currently subsidized prices. We'll see if they think they're getting $1500/month of value when that buys significantly fewer tokens.

Probably not so coincidental!

At least part of this is slated for employee stock comp. Could be to keep their talent from running.

Other vibe coders?

In what world is China less "protectionist" than the US?

I don't know what definition of AI you're using, but plenty of ML algorithms operate deterministically, let alone most other logic programmed into a computer. I don't see how your statement can be right given that these other software systems also operate in the real world.

History is littered with great ideas that lost people's interest and focus. A sad realization is that the focus may never return to them either.

Is this a submarine? https://paulgraham.com/submarine.html

That worked out, for the founders of frontier labs at least.