In our case, we're building a tool that has a moat from: integrations, multiple parties connecting, and others

It's very sticky once we get in, and has nothing to do with the software so much as legal, company policy and inter party communication

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He even advocated for world government, endorsed politicians, etc.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.freedomcha...

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.freedomcha...

That said, the analysis itself is interesting and worth a look, if nothing else it's a general pattern you can follow for many chat applications to see how secure it is.

Bourdain had been referencing Hunter S Thompson and the way he went out for years. He'd also repeatedly mentioned wanting to go out in southern France after a great day. Bourdain generally had the same "vibe" as Thompson as well. Here's Thompson's last note to his wife:

> No More Games. No More Bombs. No More Walking. No More Fun. No More Swimming. 67. That is 17 years past 50. 17 more than I needed or wanted. Boring. I am always bitchy. No Fun—for anybody. 67. You are getting Greedy. Act your old age. Relax — This won't hurt.

To me, it wasn't a surprise at all. My wife and I even had discussed when we thought it would happen. The main thing about Bourdain was that people could relate to him and he wrote excellent prose. He seemed authentic and he went out on his terms, which is what he wanted and was the way he lived.

What we’re going to see is as energy becomes a problem; they’ll simply shift to more effective and efficient architectures on both physical hardware and model design. I suspect they can also simply charge more for the service, which reduces usage for senseless applications.

In other words.. there was no point in the extra security of being onsite AND the risks of being onsite single failure point destroyed any evidence.

Pretty much what I'd expect tbh, but no remote backup is insane.

https://medium.com/capital-one-tech/why-you-dont-necessarily...

At the time it was clear to all on the team that RNNs, just like transformers later on, are general purpose frameworks that really only require more data and size to function. In the 2018-2020 era and probably today, they are slower to train. They also are less prone to certain pitfalls, but overall had the same characteristics.

In the 2019-2020 I was convinced that transformers would give way to better architecture. The RNNs in particular trained faster and required less data, particularly when combined with several architectural components I won’t get into. I believe that’s still true today, though I haven’t worked on it in the last 2-3 years.

That said, transformers “won” because they are better overall building blocks and don’t require the nuances of RNNs. Combined with the compute optimizations that are now present I don’t see that changing in the near term. Folks are even working to convert transformers to RNNs:

https://medium.com/@techsachin/supra-technique-for-linearizi...

There are also RNN based models beating Qwen 3 8B in certain benchmarks

https://www.rwkv.com/

I suspect over time the other methods my team explored and other types of networks and nodes will continue to expand beyond transformers for state of the art LLMs

To be honest, it's been going on for effectively forever.

See operation mockingbird -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Mockingbird

https://austingwalters.com/chromatags/

Think of it this way, a QR code is binary. If you modify color spaces correctly you can get 6 bits (or more) per pixel. In addition, you can improve the detection at distance, localization for robots, and speed (120 fps).

Done this to great effect previously and you can do a lot of awesome things with it. Pretty much the easiest hack in computer vision.

Sanctions weren’t effective on Russia because they had most of what they needed domestically and partner markets to sell those goods to.

When the US tried to impose sanctions on China, China called the bluff and blocked strategic materials. The US “trade deal” wasn’t much different than how it started.

In terms of willing to pay for it; what’s having a country worth? Because if a competing country can withhold resources you need, you’re effectively a junior partner.

Ultimately, reduce over seas benefits, tariff and offer tax write offs to build on shore. Then you’ll have better higher paying jobs and onshore manufacturing. More real GDP from goods will not have a negative impact or cost, it’s part of why Germany and Japan grew rapidly (they had tight import controls, to build a domestic industry).

Also, the majority of the country voted for Trump and this was his #1 issue. Like him or hate him, the desire for domestic protection is what elected him.

First, China patents ~5-10x more than the US does currently on a given month. Further, China has made it required for companies to patent.

The US definitely could not respect the Chinese patents, or they could treat Chinese patent's differently. IMO there's a ~1% chance of that happening. Patent law is pretty well defined, there are a multitude of treaties and if the US wants their patents to be respected, they have to respect the worlds.

That said, I will say, I suspect a lot of these patents can be invalidated. My company works heavily in this space and we work with some of the top US law firms. We sell a service that's used to identify prior art and invalidate patents in ~15 minutes -- https://search.ipcopilot.ai/

There's a lot of prior art in the open source community that can be used to attack these patents. Further, if folks publish their innovation it'll provide a solid layer of prior art.

I 100% agree with you and luckily I think with AI this will rapidly change. The USPTO is bringing on as many AI tools as possible, as fast as they can. Similarly, we've built a product that can invalidate patents at scale, conduct prior art searches in 15 minutes what used to take weeks and thousands of dollars --

https://search.ipcopilot.ai/

We and others in the space are rapidly gaining traction, so I suspect it's only a matter of time. I should also mention there are whole networks out there battling patent trolls (LOT Network) and others working on open source, etc.

I used to live in Chicago and SF. I’ve since moved to rural Tennessee. I can tell you everyone, including my kids, now have learned to drive our tractor. Granted I’m with them, but we had my 4-5 year old moving hay and they were helping me change oil.

I understand the concern, but everyone learns through doing. There’s definitely danger in that, and you should try to limit risk. At the same time; not teaching them is also high risk in that environment, as they’ll do it anyway with friends later.

> A new Danish study finds no association between aluminum in childhood vaccines and 50 different health conditions, including autism, asthma, and autoimmune diseases. The findings reaffirm the safety of Denmark’s childhood vaccination program.

Breaking it down --

1. The study was Denmark specific 2. The study inspected aluminum specifically 3. (Based on reading, it seems to) Reaffirm the findings that the vaccines are safe, conducted / funded by those who set the policy

Here's the actual study: https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/ANNALS-25-00997

Note the main researcher is funded by Novo Nordisk: https://researchleaderprogramme.com/recipients/anders-hviid/

And is frequently trying to debunk criticisms of drugs, often with phrasing such as this.

https://www.contagionlive.com/view/hpv-vaccination-does-not-...

https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/740704

and the list goes on...

> no association between aluminum in childhood vaccines and 50 different health conditions

It's right in the title, which was omitted on submission.

The concerns the public have are not aluminum, so of course it wont. Should also point out the argument largely made is that the _quantity_ of vaccines, particularly in the US are part of the problem.

Generally speaking, I'd welcome studies on what folks are actually saying. Having friends in both the avid vaccine advocates and the anti-vaccine crowd, I think both are just arguing past each other and not studying stuff rigorously enough to convince the other.

One example, I had a PR up that was being reviewed by a colleague. I was driving home from vacation when I saw the 3-4 comments come in. I read them when we stopped for gas, went to OpenAI / codex on my phone, dictated what I needed and made it PR to my branch. Then got back on the road & PR'd it. My colleague saw the PR, agreed and merged it in.

I think of it as having a ton of interns, the AI is about the same quality. It can help to have them, but they often get stuck, need guidance, etc. If you treat the AI like an intern and explain what you need it can often produce good results; just be prepared to fallback to coding quickly.