Alex Reich Alex Reich

Quoting Eric Berger

One thing Altemus wanted to speak about Wednesday was the renewed interest in Mars by the incoming Trump administration. "There's been a lot of churn about what this administration is going to do," he said. "But you just can't trash everything associated with the Moon and go to Mars. That doesn't make any sense from a national security standpoint."

Via Ars(https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/01/intuitive-machines-set-for-second-landing-looking-to-build-a-lunar-economy/)

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Quoting Casey Newton

The “AI is fake and sucks” crowd is hyper-fixated on the things it can’t do — count the number of r’s in strawberry, figure out that the Onion was joking when it told us to eat rocks — and weirdly uninterested in the things it can.

The “AI is fake and sucks” crowd is hyper-fixated on the things it can’t do — count the number of r’s in strawberry, figure out that the Onion was joking when it told us to eat rocks — and weirdly uninterested in the things it can.

Via Platformer

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Quoting Simon Willison

I think telling people that this whole field is environmentally catastrophic plagiarism machines that constantly make things up is doing those people a disservice, no matter how much truth that represents. There is genuine value to be had here, but getting to that value is unintuitive and needs guidance.

I think telling people that this whole field is environmentally catastrophic plagiarism machines that constantly make things up is doing those people a disservice, no matter how much truth that represents. There is genuine value to be had here, but getting to that value is unintuitive and needs guidance.

Via simonwillison.net

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Quoting Kris Abdelmessih

Despite a career in options trading, replete with greek letters and complex financial instruments, I find myself in total agreement with Corey Hoffstein’s recent podcast guest Victor Haghani who despite being a super-quant (sometimes super means flying to close to the sun as he was also a partner in LTCM) admit that when he left high finance he realized he didn’t know how to invest.

Despite a career in options trading, replete with greek letters and complex financial instruments, I find myself in total agreement with Corey Hoffstein’s recent podcast guest Victor Haghani who despite being a super-quant (sometimes super means flying to close to the sun as he was also a partner in LTCM) admit that when he left high finance he realized he didn’t know how to invest.

Via Moontower

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