links, etc ‘Right to Repair for Your Body’: The Rise of DIY, Pirated Medicine just in case you forgot you were owned… 3D printing for chemistry could be the most economically disruptive thing we see in our lifetimes. tags: health, medicine Tesla’s TTPoE at Hot Chips 2024: Replacing TCP for Low Latency Applications there are some interesting things they’ve baked into the ASIC here. tags: ai, tesla, hotchips, neteng, protocols...
links, etc 2024 MADE Bike Show People and Products – Spencer Harding, Jade Elhardt, & John Watson | The Radavist | A group of individuals who share a love of cycling and the outdoors. so. much. delicious bike pr0n. tags: bikes
links, etc Harder Drive: Hard drives we didn’t want or need a delicious waste of network bandwidth and linux network drivers. quite amusing. Have we stopped to think about what LLMs actually model? • The Register no. tags: linux, ai, hacks
links, etc Why A.I. Isn’t Going to Make Art i read pretty much anything that ted chiang decides he wants to publish to the world at large. he’s been particularly critical of AI over the past few years and i have a difficult time arguing with the ground that he’s staked out. this article is well worth the time to read. it’s full of solid, nuanced perspective on the topic of art and human engagement with art....
links, etc The changing role of the US dollar this was an interesting read. kind of hand-wavy, but some interesting trends to note. of particular interest here is the absence of any discussion (or even a passing reference) to crypto. what is interesting is the creation of direct digital currency exchanges coming out of china, et al. these all service to obviate the need for a vehicle currency (aka, the US dollar)....