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Marcelo P. Lima retweeted
It's obvious to me that FSD improves my own driving safety. There's a compounding safety externality from adoption—if everyone had and used FSD, there would be very few fatal car accidents. We should make this the fastest physical world adoption curve ever.
Thoughts on Owning a Self-Driving Tesla marginalrevolution.com/margi…
Marcelo P. Lima retweeted
This could tank the market. Abbot could even lose. Big implications for a boatload of data centers
Marcelo P. Lima retweeted
Some higher-ed good news: Clemson is launching a new department based on the Great Books, with up to 120 scholarships a year and a Socratic tutor for each student. C. Bradley Thompson reports on The Lyceum—and on profs putting teaching first again: city-journal.org/article/cle…
0.03% of Anthropic's customers (by count) drove 74% of TTM revenue of $35.27 billion.
Avg. revenue of $2.2 million for EACH customer in that 0.03% cohort vs. $229 for the remaining 40 million customers.
Marcelo P. Lima retweeted
Got fable to hand-write weights of a 100k param model to recognize real versus fake legal citations.
Basically one-shotted a full NN that’s better than training it
An economist drives a Tesla:
"My colleague, who long held that self-driving would be worthwhile only if he could sleep, was amazed at the experience of driving my Tesla and immediately ordered two."
Thoughts on Owning a Self-Driving Tesla - marginalrevolution.com/margi…
Marcelo P. Lima retweeted
We were taught to picture planetary orbits as separate ellipses around the Sun. But when we examine the relative motions of Earth and Venus, something remarkable emerges, an almost perfect mathematical symmetry hidden within the Solar System.
Every 8 Earth years (2,922.0 days), Venus completes almost exactly 13 orbits around the Sun (2,921.1 days), an 8:13 orbital commensurability that matches to approximately 99.968% precision.
This near 8:13 Fibonacci ratio means Venus passes between Earth and the Sun at inferior conjunction approximately every 583.92 days (1.599 years). Over eight years, five successive conjunctions form an almost symmetrical fivefold pattern, resembling a five-petalled rose. The alignment is not perfectly fixed but gradually shifts over time.
Even at the center of this pattern, the Sun itself is not stationary. It moves around the Solar System's barycenter, sometimes traveling beyond its own radius from that common center of mass under the gravitational influence of the planets, especially the outer giants.
Marcelo P. Lima retweeted
Anthropic’s 15-person chip design team is using Claude to develop its own AI chips, The Information reports.
The team has found that Claude speeds up the work compared with its estimates of traditional chip design workflows.
In doing so, Anthropic is following the path taken by OpenAI, which has designed its own chip, codenamed "Jalapeño."
Marcelo P. Lima retweeted
Hi @UMich i just want to be absolutely explicitly clear that NO, this video of your student committing Assault & Battery, resisting arrest, making death threats, & engaging in Anti Semitism ON CAMPUS is NOT coming down.
In fact, on behalf of @camhigby & others who were assaulted & threatened on your campus with your consent, & protection, I’m going to reshare it here.
And I’m going to tag some friends with reach to make sure it keeps going. Here. On telegram. On facebook. On Rumble. On YouTube. On Truth Social.
Remember, you asked for it.
@drawandstrike @willchamberlain @MattMorseTV @AAGDhillon @AndrewKolvet @AGToddBlanche @MrAndyNgo @catturd2 @EricLDaugh @FBIDirectorKash @EagleEdMartin @elonmusk @NickJFreitas @KurtSchlichter @libsoftiktok @nicksortor @RonColeman @StephenM @jenvanlaar
Its only fairthe rest of the world learns you’re desperately trying to hide this, @UMich especially from the Justice & Education departments.
cc @EDSecMcMahon @usedgov
🚨🚨 I have just been informed by @ReawakenUSA CEO @realjamesowen that he was called by @UMich and asked to have my video of yesterday’s attack removed due to negative blowback on lunatic, Temulun Togochog
I’ll repost it every day until she’s expelled and charged.
The Lear 60 sounds like a terrible choice of aircraft.
Long post worth the read. I have a close friend who flies private jets. He flew Lear 60 for over 15 years and now flies a Gulfstream. This is a copy and paste of his response to me asking him if I thought Ice was the issue.
“We always fly in ridiculous cold temperatures.”
“Usually you get the bad ice when the temperatures are like 0 to negative 20. Believe it or not, there's a point where it gets too cold for ice. At negative 40, you pretty much can't get ice. Besides that, the airplane is equipped with hot wings and hot tail.”
“I flew the Lear 60 for like 15 years. It's a no joke airplane and probably the most dangerous airplane I've ever flown. It has a super critical wing. The airflow has to be perfect. When it gets into rough air and turbulence, it will easily stall. It has stalled on me at 41,000 feet just because we got into some turbulence. (On the way to Palm Beach as a matter of fact. ) we recovered and got her flying again around 30,000 ft. Scary
But here's the problem. This airplane has a terrible coffin corner. (At high altitudes) what that means is, you fly in a really narrow window where if you lose 20 knots, it stalls. And if you gain 20 knots, it goes into overspeed. The air goes supersonic over the wing and it goes into a high speed stall, or worse, a Mach tuck.
So if you stall, the normal recovery is to push the yoke forward to lower the nose and gain air speed again. At low altitude, you can push really hard and recover quickly. But in the 60... if you push hard, it will gain air speed and go into a high speed stall, it doesn't take much. It's very sensitive. The 60 has super short wings that don't make much lift. So then you high speed stall, and the computer is yelling at you... OVERSPEED! So then you pull back and enter a low speed stall. And you go back and forth trying to keep it in the air speed window.
This whole thing is pretty scary. And you should recover basically by using your finger tips using super small corrections. You can't over do it. If you try to muscle the recovery, she gets mad and will become unrecoverable. If she enters a mach tuck. You're done.”
“I taught the Lear 60 to other pilots and mentored them. I told them... this airplane has a soul and it's trying to kill you. Do not ever try to top the weather. Don't go over a thunderstorm. Go around it. If it means a half hour longer, then do it. Going over the thunderstorm will go into turbulence that you might not recover from.
These pilots went right over a thunderstorm. I think it stalled which caused them to drop down into the thunderstorm and ended up in mach tuck. They picked up so much speed that it ripped off the horizontal stabilizer. At that point... chuck Yeager can't fix it.
These same pilots did something similar a couple months ago. ATC got mad at them. They poked the bear one too many times.
This is not a beginner airplane. The Gulfstream would never do this. It has HUGE margins of error and won't stall like that. But then again... it's got HUGE wings. It's a pussy cat.
The Gulfstream is like driving a 4 wheeler. The Lear 60 is like riding a uni cycle.”
