It was supposed to be a Beowulf cluster of Furbies, right?

I absolutely do not have a solid grasp of the full works of Mencius and I have fairly anemic knowledge of the derivative works but I'm fairly sure it's not just a simple euphemism.

My read of the idiom is that Chinese political philosophers claim that the basis of Western political philosophy is the balance of power between hegemons and the basis of Chinese political philosophy is the concept of the righteous rule/mandate of heaven.

His implication seems to be that Western nations are held together primarily by force whereas the CPC primarily maintains power by serving the people.

Project 2025 wasn't really secret but it wasn't in the public consciousness until about a year later https://trends.google.com/explore?q=project%20202&date=today...

China also has a bunch of political philosophy nerds that crank out wonky policy papers. I keep finding references to this one by Wu Bikang, https://www.rmlt.com.cn/2014/0403/253621.shtml

I'm still very bad at Chinese and I don't assume that I understand that paper well, even with translations, but that paper clearly interprets the Thucydides trap very differently from how it's discussed here.

Basically a drone that relies more on the camera and less on the accellerometer and the GPS. Although it still uses both a lot.

A cheap rowing counter. Competitive rowers use a training device that counts their strokes per minute. I figured out that the major parts are really cheap, even as individual purchases, so I wanted to build a budget version. So far it counts strokes fairly accurately and I've just completed initial tests of the display.

Drone experiment. I'm building a image recognition drone from scratch. It's based on a H743 Slim V4, with an RPI5 and a OAK-D Lite. I'm currently trying to figure out why the back left rotor is producing way too little thrust.

Like everyone else, I'm also working on an agent harness. tl;dr I don't trust any agent to not be dumb, but the agents seem to have some success recognizing when the work of an other agent is dumb. In early tests, the back and forth seems to provide more stable and better results.

The obvious alternative explanation is that people are very worried about the externalities of a project as massive as putting data centers in space.

I'd also wonder if the folks who don't want to live within 3 miles of a data center are OK with the data center flying over their head

There are some internal policy papers to that effect.

The US could ban connections to foreign AI providers and force US providers to submit to audits. Presumably, Chinese providers would see a rise in VPN traffic.

People can build fairly hefty home inference machines for the price of a small car and those will get better and cheaper. Are they going to try to stop people from downloading the weight files?

Their valuation should be very closely tied to how how many tokens it takes to get from Void to Cursor.

If those values diverge by much, something is rotten in the state of Denmark.

It's a software feature designed to benefit Google at the expense of the user.

When a human is abuses a system, that human normally loses access to the system.

The top EV manufacturer started as a battery company. The second place EV company started as an EV company.

Various ICE manufacturers have spent decades innovating and refining ICEs and building logistics chains optimized for ICEs.

The big problem that the high end ICE manufacturers have is that the things that made them special in the ICE market don't apply as well in the EV market.

You can potentially justify 6 figure price tags if you're in the luxury market. Hire famous designers, pay for premium materials, and leverage your brand name. If you want to sell cars for 6 figures based on performance, they actually need to perform significantly better. There are a bunch of much cheaper EVs that have better performance.

Just jacking up the price and relying on conspicuous consumption is how you get the Fyre Festival.

I view all three of these more as good advice than demands. As I see it, people ignore this advice at their own peril.

It would certainly be nice if we could craft some system that removes the need for such advice but until then, I'll try to follow it.

I see this as the same dilemma that comes up around personal physical safety. In a just society, nobody should have to change their behavior to protect themselves from criminals. In the real world, people who ignore this advice, are more likely to get mugged.