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New comment by timy2shoes in "Tesla to wind down Cybertruck production"

timy2shoes — Fri, 06 Nov 2026 18:37:47 +0000

They're working hard to not release any of their safety data, unlike all the other autonomous car companies.

New comment by timy2shoes in "Couple pay >$800k for a gene-editing therapy for their daughter. She died."

timy2shoes — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 23:59:56 +0000

Another compounding issue is that they had to package the vector into two parts, which then have to both infect the same cell to get any effect. Which means you have to at least double the dose to get similar coverage compared to a single AAV vector (and actually more than double). Seems like a easy recipe for liver toxicity. Which is why most companies doing AAV therapy either target the liver or the eye (where AAV doesn't escape to the liver).

I feel like the parents were not well enough informed of the risks, and the PI rushed the therapy to be famous. Not the first time this has happened, and not the last, sadly.

New comment by timy2shoes in "Apple Silicon Exec Explains Mac Mini AI Demand and On-Device Future"

timy2shoes — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 19:16:42 +0000

Benchmarking that I've seen shows that the M5 Max outperforms the DGX Spark, e.g. https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1tfzsd6/m5_vs_d... or https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1tr7hzw/psa/. Seems to me that Apple is doing pretty well with local AI inference.

New comment by timy2shoes in "Google to pay SpaceX $920M a month for compute capacity at xAI data centers"

timy2shoes — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 21:37:40 +0000

They are paying for the existing earth-bound data centers SpaceXai owns.

New comment by timy2shoes in "SpaceX in Merger Talks with xAI"

timy2shoes — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 21:25:03 +0000

> He used xAI to move the Twitter debt so it couldn't be taken away for failure to pay debts.

Exactly. I think it was obvious he was shifting the debt around when xAI merged w/ X right after xAI raised a large funding round and had cash in the bank (which it could use to pay down the X debt).

New comment by timy2shoes in "SpaceX in Merger Talks with xAI"

timy2shoes — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 19:57:10 +0000

Probably in a desperate attempt to stall margin calls on the debt, which would cause him to have to sell his Tesla stock, which might start the freefall in stock price, creating a negative feedback loop and cratering his empire. See also the news about Tesla shifting manufacturing to robotics.

New comment by timy2shoes in "On the slow death of scaling"

timy2shoes — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 06:14:53 +0000

This is an opinion piece, similar to her infamous hardware lottery paper. We shouldn't expect a repo on an opinion piece.

New comment by timy2shoes in "OpenAI’s Windsurf deal is off, and Windsurf’s CEO is going to Google"

timy2shoes — Sat, 12 Jul 2025 05:28:23 +0000

My wife refuses to watch it because it hit too close to home.

New comment by timy2shoes in "Problems the AI industry is not addressing adequately"

timy2shoes — Sat, 05 Jul 2025 18:29:49 +0000

Of course they are. Why would you want revenue? If you show revenue, people will ask 'HOW MUCH?' and it will never be enough. The company that was the 100xer, the 1000xer is suddenly the 2x dog. But if you have NO revenue, you can say you're pre-revenue! You're a potential pure play... It's not about how much you earn, it's about how much you're worth. And who is worth the most? Companies that lose money!

New comment by timy2shoes in "Javier Milei backtracks on $4.4B memecoin after 'insiders' pocket $87M"

timy2shoes — Mon, 17 Feb 2025 01:08:42 +0000

A for-profit media company that foreign interests can pile money into for a quid pro quo, that’s somehow not legally a quid pro quo anymore.

New comment by timy2shoes in "I sensed anxiety and frustration at NeurIPS 24"

timy2shoes — Wed, 25 Dec 2024 01:38:29 +0000

The down rounds have started for those companies that either haven’t found product market fit, or aren’t in contention on leaderboards. Especially those companies that are a OpenAI wrapper and can be easily replaced by a new, more broadly applicable, foundation model or a new modality model.

https://www.businessinsider.com/ai-down-rounds-rise-valuatio...

New comment by timy2shoes in "When did estimates turn into deadlines?"

timy2shoes — Wed, 20 Nov 2024 06:27:54 +0000

The padding in healthcare is part of the system. One part is to have high prices so insurance can negotiate them down. And for hospitals in particular, prices are padded to subsidize emergency care for the indigent (which they have to provide without regard to ability to pay; thanks Reagan).

New comment by timy2shoes in "Mira Murati leaves OpenAI"

timy2shoes — Thu, 26 Sep 2024 01:24:53 +0000

“the King stay the King.” —- D’Angelo Barksdale

New comment by timy2shoes in "I've stopped using box plots (2021)"

timy2shoes — Sun, 23 Jun 2024 19:50:59 +0000

Then take a Cauchy or a t-distribution. Basically anything with a longer tail than exp(x^2). The Gaussian summary will be misleading because of the tails.

New comment by timy2shoes in "Sharing new research, models, and datasets from Meta FAIR"

timy2shoes — Tue, 18 Jun 2024 17:53:46 +0000

They’ve chosen the path of commoditizing their complement. To ensure that ML capabilities are not a differentiating factor in the market, make ML capabilities a commodity available to everyone at the marginal cost.

New comment by timy2shoes in "Nvidia announces financial results for first quarter fiscal 2025"

timy2shoes — Wed, 22 May 2024 22:27:14 +0000

Everyone talks about the chips, but Nvidia's true competitive advantage is CUDA. Only recently has PyTorch added AMD support, and benchmarks I've seen have shown that AMD has a lot of work to catch up.

New comment by timy2shoes in "Yahoo is buying Artifact, the AI news app from the Instagram co-founders"

timy2shoes — Tue, 02 Apr 2024 15:26:43 +0000

From a practitioners perspective, I view this type of behavior as tuning the model more towards the exploitation side of the exploration/exploitation trade-off. I think a lot of recommendation engines do this (looking at you YouTube) because it’s more profitable.

New comment by timy2shoes in "Paris cycling numbers double in one year thanks to investment"

timy2shoes — Mon, 18 Mar 2024 14:52:41 +0000

My wife and I visited Paris last summer and biked everywhere. It felt very safe, not as safe as Copenhagen but still safe. I hope that with more time, as more drivers get used to bikes on the road it will get safer and more people will bike, creating a positive feedback loop.

New comment by timy2shoes in "Learning From DNA: a grand challenge in biology"

timy2shoes — Fri, 15 Mar 2024 02:35:05 +0000

Hi Nishant. Great work, as always.

New comment by timy2shoes in "Power Laws in Culture"

timy2shoes — Thu, 07 Mar 2024 23:57:23 +0000

Was it Clauset, Shalizi, and Newman 2009? That’s the one I know, but I believe there’s many more, especially from Clauset.

https://www.stat.cmu.edu/tr/tr853/tr853.pdf