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Meanwhile Starlink and Starshield: Hold my beer ;-)

I believe this will get solved once agent protocol is adopted widespread.

anecdata: The responses of grok on X in my language are really good. the tone, sarcasm, level of "vulgarity" in response is so accurate that it seem its written by human

May be when robots truly arrived. We don't have to work and we get to spend more time with our kids.

Slightly tangent. At some point in future I can imagine humanoid robots will be doing this job. Of course, the robots need to be super reliable before we hand over the our kids

Apple notes app works well for me. I just keep top 3 things to do everyday. not to me mention these top 3 are for everything - personal work and everything else. just top 3 things. that's it.

In undergrad(around 2005) we used to have a COBOL lab, most of the assignments were pretty much add/update/delete types. A friend of mine found COBOL so boring, in order to keep it interesting he wrote COBOL program for brothel(not real one), to maintain the customers, prostitutes, transactions and whole nine yard. Despite of not liking the language, he was the best COBOL programmer in college.

Well I did not even bring Elon into my original post. What I wrote is true regardless of whether its starlink or some other constellation. e.g satphones are routinely used across the world in conflict/insurgency areas. Starlink is already being used in insurgency in NE part of India and so on.

why i am being downvoted for this :confused:

Internet shutdown typically happens during riots/ violent protests. Starlink makes "internet shutdown" impotent. Though Starlink has to follow country's laws and actually shutdown the internet. Most if not all protest are sponsored by entities that are against the host country and they will find ways to enable the internet for protesters with starlink or some other ways.

population size? imo it makes huge difference in how effective you can govern.

Do it! I am waiting for my 7 month old to become big enough to be ready for 6 hour drive. I plan to make it annual ritual to visit Starbase with kids.

if you can, visit Starbase. I can't believe its so easy and you can see those huge rockets from so close. No permission of anything needed you just drive to there.

In recent India's general election. A deepfake video of a leading politician costed a massive vote shift and they almost lost an election. The damage was done by the time they have clarified it is fake.

even if we assume you are comment is correct. Lets extrapolate what happens next. talented team, biggest compute among all competitors and CEO who is hell bent on winning the race. imo that is the reason it is big deal.

30 years ago, no one in my native place has seen telephone. Now every single person young and old are connected to the internet, conduct banking and other transaction via phone and many many other things.

Many unimaginable things happened in last 30 year from vantage point of my native place. Assuming same level of of transformation for next 30 year it will be still massive progress. Given current tech and AI, the rate of progress for next 30 years will be far greater than last 30. So I am believer in AI and tech in general will make massive progress in next decade

I had theory long time ago that booking hotel or airlines tickets from mac used to be more expensive than windows. Many of my friend also experienced as well. Its just theory so don't know if others had similar experience.

The Making of Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes. Its not about one people but a project, Manhattan Project. One of my most favorite book.

The mainstream media narrative does shape general public opinion, even for the smarter folks. Let's keep aside debate whether Elon is right or wrong for a moment. The day Elon started speaking on politics, all of a sudden mainstream media narrative shifted from neutral to totally against him, in my personal opinion it wasn't organic change, it was very intentional and sustained attack on him and still continue. My learning is that whoever controls the MSM can make or break reputation of individual.

I wonder how cheating problem could be solved?

A cheap multi camera system + software, that can be quickly installed at candidates location to watch interviewing candidate. This can be sent by employer before interviews. its cheap enough that it can be thrown away.

traditional way - A company that provides interviewing centers across major cities for software interview, the location will have cameras that will make sure candidates are not cheating.

anecdata - I am Indian and on h1b. Intel hired Accenture folks, they just put more people with no experience, it took more time to train them than doing stuff ourselves.

Another instance, Intel gave tens of millions to do something that few employees could have done in couple of months. Its basically creating two conda environments, one with intel optimized software stack & one with default and compare the results for 20 use cases.

Not sure its the case with all the contract companies, but this was my experience.

here more such things from Dan Rasky (nasa scientist) about his experience with spacex: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMLDAgDNOhk

"Those satellite photographs -- the landsat photographs -- are so darn good that when they re fully enhanced by computer, we can actually tell how high the waves are out in the middle of the Pacific; we can tell what the temperature of the ocean is 20 feet below.." - Grace Hopper in 1982 NSA lecture. YT link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=si9iqF5uTFk&t=1612s

I bet current spy satellite will be doing a lot things we can hardly imagine, may be we will know in 40-50 years down the line.

This!

100% agree on pay. Also Intel is ossified, there is less and less team where you are held accountable. Empire building is rampant. One of the fundamental thing missing is vision and how each team is relate to that vision.

I wonder what stopping three letter agencies to secretly push for keyboard manufacturers in such way that each keystroke has unique sound and it becomes easier to detect keystrokes.

Over the time I can see my dad getting that feeling. He is 76, it took him years to make peace with that feeling. Apparently it's unfortunate reality that we all have to go through it.

dumb question. I can understand LLM can be used to disinformation as it can generate text/image at scale. can you explain how it can do large scale surveillance?

I am one of the few who is on the fence. This comment motivates me to give it try to this paper. Thanks ImageXav!

almost always I really liked the book when a friend recommended it or i stumble upon online thread/conversation where somebody recommended a book. I rarely liked any book that was recommended from some recommender platform like goodread or other variants