As if ski trip planning isn't complex enough, half of Canada decided to switch to perm daylight savings time yesterday and not fall back.
And be careful with BC, the now UTC-7/UTC-6 split isn't on the Alberta border, some eastern BC ski resorts are on UTC-6.
Relative times will change again mid March. We really need a reorganization of the time zones and permanent time.
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Fun watch. And a very recursive video because it was envisioned and created by a person suffering from debilitating ALS who was able to make this by using the latest AI agents and Neuralink.
Enjoy.
It's here. Claudia's "ALLOW ALWAYS" world premiere. Made by a guy with ALS, a brain implant, and too many AI friends. 😂
I try to not to post political crap. And this is somewhat local political crap too, the governor's race in California. Nonetheless, this story/segment on Joe Rogan isn't political per se, it is a real story about child sex trafficking. Awful. Needs to get more coverage.
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Joe Rogan is horrified as Steve Hilton reveals where the 330,000 migrant kids Biden lost actually ended up.
ROGAN: “Holy f*ck!”
HILTON: “The way Bobby puts it is that Becerra turned HHS into the largest child trafficking operation in history.”
A caseworker told Hilton they were ordered to ignore obviously fake IDs and get the kids out the door as fast as possible.
Their directive was “Speed over safety.” If something happens to the kids, so be it.
One girl was put on a plane, handed off to three strange men, and forced to work 20 hours a day.
ROGAN: “Oh my God, it’s shocking. That’s so evil.”
The kids were given a hotline to call if they were in danger. The problem was getting anyone to answer.
HILTON: “There were 65,000 unanswered calls to the hotline.”
And the people who flagged it? “FIRED.”
ROGAN: “It doesn’t even seem like it could be real.”
When Bobby Kennedy Jr. previously described what happened to these kids, he called it a “huge, huge tragedy.”
KENNEDY: “One guy pretended to be the parent of 42 children. We have no idea what happened to those kids.”
“There was about 60 kids who were sent to one address. When we looked at that address, it was a container, a steel container in the middle of a parking lot.”
“A lot of them were sent to work at slaughterhouses and picking fruits in the fields. They were slaves.”
“It’s a huge, huge tragedy. My agency [under Biden] was the single biggest child trafficker in the world.”
And now Xavier Becerra, the man who presided over all of it, wants to be governor of California.
Steve Hilton is running against him.
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Spawn is an online game company where players create their own games via prompts. Games are immediately created using the in-game AI, then you invite others to play it with you or modify it as you play.
But the *really* mind-blowing part is that the entire company is run by AI:
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Semiconductors are the bellwether for the entire economy. If they falter, then a recession is likely. And memory chips are the bellwether for semis.
If you aren’t fully invested in the stock market, even just in index funds, I don’t know what I can do to help you.
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오늘 하이닉스 3분기 어닝콜 요약
우리 실적 미쳤어. 그리고 28년까지 장기계약 50% 이상 했어.
그리고 29년까지 사실상 DRAM과 HBM 물량은 솔드아웃이야.
그리고 지금 수요가 넘쳐나는데, 너네가 혹시나 걱정하는 수요 감소의 경우에는 걱정할 필요가 없는 게 지금 빅테크뿐만 아니라 전 세계 모든 나라에서 AI를 구축하려고 해. 그 수요가 엄청나.
그리고 캐파 늘린다고 공급이 늘 거라 걱정하는데, HBM 같은 고부가가치 제품 때문에 공정이 더 복잡해져서 공급이 늘기 힘들어.
그리고 씨발, 우리가 빅테크한테 한두 번 속아보냐? 니네가 필요하다고 해서 바로 캐파 안 늘리고, 니네 재무제표부터 다 뜯어보고 캐파 늘려. 구라치다 걸리지 마라.
그리고 니네가 걱정하는 HBM4는 수율이 계획보다 잘 나와서 목표도 상향했고 4분기부터 출하해.
HBM4E도 이미 2분기에 샘플 보냈고 순조롭게 잘되고 있어.
적층 단수 내린 거? 적층 단수를 내려야 그나마 부족한 공급을 늘릴 거 아니야.
그리고 4F²? 제발 기술 구현과 상용화 개념 좀 알고 이야기해.
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The Cybercab production line is ramping faster than anyone at Tesla expected it to.
That’s the sense I got from watching the video below. Logistics in the target cities are the limiting factor right now for deployment: things like overnight parking, cleaning, charging. Normally Tesla wouldn’t be caught out by something like this, but I think the speed of the Cybercab ramp caught everyone by surprise.
Elon cautioned us earlier in the year that the manufacturing ramp was going to be slow since it was the first brand new way of building cars in over a hundred years.
But I think Tesla hit it out of the park with the unboxed manufacturing process. It has turned out that the process simply worked and delivered what they hoped it would, which is extreme process efficiency.
This might even mean Tesla’s ability to bring the next mass market car to market will happen that much quicker.
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Cool things I learned from this Tesla Cybercab engineering walkthrough.
They now have a wireless battery management system. Each of 4 battery modules has its own BMS board which reports via radio to the battery controller. Normally, you’d have a centralized BMS and tons of sense wires going to it. This is a BOM cost savings and manufacturing efficiency win.
No more pyro fuse. Tesla had done away with low voltage fuses a long time ago via power semiconductors, and now they’ve done the same for the high voltage, high current main battery pack. In low speed crashes, the system can isolate the battery, but now still be able to turn it back on if no high voltage faults are detected. This reduces maintenance costs.
No e-coatings on most castings. Tesla’s special aluminum alloys are robust enough to last without coatings.
No refrigerant being routed through the car. All other cars route pressurized refrigerant to cool the cabin. The Cybercab instead just routes Ethylene Glycol keeping the refrigerant and compressor in a sealed vessel. This reduces maintenance expense since refrigerant leaks are expensive to fix. It has the downside of less cabin cooling power, but for a continuously used vehicle or one that has known pickup times, the computer can pre cool long enough in advance to make it work.
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Caught between bots.
So I kicked by my agentic stock bot in the butt and asked it get more aggressive and actually use hedging strategies since the last 2 months it was just mirroring the NASDAQ.
One of the first things it tried to do was a multi-leg option order, which the Robinhood MCP account rejected.
So my Grok Bot suggested I contact Robinhood Support and ask them to enable that support. Turns out Robinhood Support is a bot. So I was caught relaying info back and forth between the two bots.
Robinhood doesn't expose support via their agentic MCP interface, but next time I'm going to have Grok Bot just log into my Robinhood account via its web browser and talk to the support bot directly! But this is where it's going for sure - bots talking to bots. Who needs user interfaces anymore.
Grok Bot created this nice summary page of what it's doing and what it's thinking here: And yes, I only have a small amount of money in the account, this is just a test after all!
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Great talk about state of the art harness use by a Cursor/SpaceXSI engineer. Get a peak at what powers Grok Bot and where it’s going. Quick and to the point.
btw at 100k views in 24hrs,
@jediahkatz's talk is an early candidate to be THE breakout talk of aie nyc
the bar is set very high for
@poteto's keynote at AIE CODE next month hahaha
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Cool things I learned from this Tesla Cybercab engineering walkthrough.
They now have a wireless battery management system. Each of 4 battery modules has its own BMS board which reports via radio to the battery controller. Normally, you’d have a centralized BMS and tons of sense wires going to it. This is a BOM cost savings and manufacturing efficiency win.
No more pyro fuse. Tesla had done away with low voltage fuses a long time ago via power semiconductors, and now they’ve done the same for the high voltage, high current main battery pack. In low speed crashes, the system can isolate the battery, but now still be able to turn it back on if no high voltage faults are detected. This reduces maintenance costs.
No e-coatings on most castings. Tesla’s special aluminum alloys are robust enough to last without coatings.
No refrigerant being routed through the car. All other cars route pressurized refrigerant to cool the cabin. The Cybercab instead just routes Ethylene Glycol keeping the refrigerant and compressor in a sealed vessel. This reduces maintenance expense since refrigerant leaks are expensive to fix. It has the downside of less cabin cooling power, but for a continuously used vehicle or one that has known pickup times, the computer can pre cool long enough in advance to make it work.
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Excellent post detailing Anthropic's S-1.
With this IPO, Anthropic is funding a "Public Benefit Fund" with $75B of Anthropic stock.
NGO funding secured.
Something I’ve been advocating for a long time has finally happened: Turo is showing which listings have Tesla FSD support.
I’ve been using Turo on trips just to rent Teslas/FSD. Driving in a strange city is stressful, so I let the car handle it. One trip had me going through Manhattan and Brooklyn in the aftermath of a snowstorm. FSD was perfect.
Airport pick up/drop off is also often way more convenient than trad rental cars. I’ve had hosts drop off the car at the arrivals curb.
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The latest info & theories on Optimus in this vid with
@herbertong and
@GoingBallistic5.
The only thing would add is that V4 Optimus that will be built at the new giant factory at GigaTexas (due late 2027) will be highly vertically integrated. Meaning supply chain will be a much smaller problem even as volumes expect to be 10x what Fremont can build.
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Fear. We are seeing it in the stock market, fear about a bubble. We have fear about hacking the Internet. Fear about losing our jobs.
Meanwhile the biggest force for progress since the Industrial Revolution is unfolding before our eyes.
Instead of being afraid, people should embrace all the latest tools like Grok Bot and use it to enhance their lives.
The more people do this, the less they will fear. I’ll leave you with this banger of a hopeful video.
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This is exactly the kind of surreal funny entertainment I needed on this Friday night. Harry Potter meets high fashion meets Malfoid:
Hilarious. Men, here’s your hero’s journey. You must slay your woman’s inner HR department and make her realize she is the ultimate answer to AI taking over all jobs, because she alone can doing something no AI can do … make a family.
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As a growth/value investor, I’d advise going long women here. The stock has never been lower. Sentiment couldn’t be more negative. Fundamentals are decent. Management is just catastrophically incompetent.
The board has been captured by HR. In fact, the entire enterprise is now just one big HR department. Classic corporate governance failure.
Thesis:
Women are a blue-chip consumer staple with highly inelastic demand. A once-great civilizational institution now being run like a nonprofit arts collective with a $90 billion DEI budget.
They abandoned the flagship business (being fertile cutie pies) into a low-margin, high-overhead product nobody wants (girlboss therapy sluts with fake email jobs) that mostly complains; spends all discretionary income on “boba tea” and “Sephora”; sends emails about emails and has meetings about meetings; and reallocates R&D into astrology, squiggly tattoos, SSRIs, and industrial-scale grievance production.
They have an insurmountable competitive moat on ass and smelling nice, coupled with a very horny customer base that’s remained buyers for millennia. Even at peak dysfunction, demand has barely budged.
Men have tried diversifying out of this asset class (video games, MMA, crypto, philosophy) to no avail. Every potential disruptor (AI gf’s, anime body pillows, sex robots, “Nietzsche”) has failed to find product-market fit.
A quintessential distressed-asset play. A disciplined operator (a husband) takes the company private (makes her delete Instagram), cuts non-core operations (having “political opinions”), and refocuses on the core product (being a darling kitten). Reinstate the affection dividend (lots of sex) and they can return to aggressive organic growth (being pregnant).
Expect a sassy proxy battle with the incumbent board (her group chat), outside counsel (her therapist), and entrenched institutional stakeholders (women with made-up master's degrees) to fight the deal.
However a hostile takeover from an activist PE firm or small military junta can easily turn this around: liquidate the fake-email-job division, discontinue the 67,835 ongoing self-discovery initiatives, and redirect capital back toward the company's historically profitable core business: being sweet ladies.
The plump assets are still there. The brand is iconic. The customer base is hopelessly loyal. We just need to get the business back to generating positive cash flow (litters of children) again.
Enormous upside potential. Generational buying opportunity.
I’m long $HOE
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This is an awesome video and everyone who is wondering about the tech behind driverless cars should watch it.
The only thing I would add is that in real world production systems you always have constraints. For a car, this means you can’t use an expensive GPU cluster for the AI. You have a strict limit to the amount of compute you have.
Meaning that if you have Lidar and radar, you are starving vision of compute because some of that compute now has to go to analyzing Lidar, radar and doing the sensor fusion. You’ve just made a tradeoff deciding that your vision system isn’t going to be as good as on a car with a vision only system.
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15 years building multi-sensor fusion taught me one thing: fusion is a crutch.
🔹 More sensors ≠ more information
🔹 LiDAR’s and radar's physics: rain, blooming, range-Doppler grid, and target separability
🔹 Why only vision sees meaning
🔹 Why fusion is a crutch
See video 👇
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Cool result. Seems that the brain’s frame rate for perceiving conscious signals is about 16 to 17 times a second. It locks onto a conscious interpretation every 60 ms.
1/ We discovered something totally unexpected about the neural structure of consciousness that overturns decades of thinking on its biological basis and brings us significantly closer to the recipe for generating conscious awareness.
New preprint: (led by
@HesseJanis, with
@FrankLanfranchi,
@_conor_mcgrory,
@Yuelin_Shi, and
@EngelTatiana)
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At the Tesla Roadster launch event, they showed us this behind the scenes engineering video of Roadster rocket development. Enjoy!
Finally had time to finish listening to the Top Gear review of the Tesla Roadster. Very car knowledgeable reviewer. Learned a ton. It ended with a quick review of the OG Roadster which was a lot of fun.
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