Setting a new benchmark in incredible. This guy solves a scrambled Rubik's Cube blindfolded for which he memorized the positions ten years ago.
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Race to the bottom. Oregon lawmakers want taxpayers to pay for strikers' salaries when they strike. How dumb is that? No wonder Oregon ranks at the bottom for business-friendly states. No.
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Competition is good. DeepSeek is causing a rout in AI stocks today. The Biden administration restricted H100 NVIDIA chips to China, but let them have H800 chips. So Chinese engineers created a better way of using a Mixture of Experts architecture and creating their own version of CUDA to coordinate the chips. It's just as good or better than OpenAI's best model, and cheaper, too. And they followed OpenAI's API, so it's easy to use their models to play around, the pricing is very, very competitive. Some expect that Apple will develop something similar to allow better access to the GPUs in their chips. The real loser here is Google.
Nice write-up here.
ProtonVPN is apparently the VPN of choice for The Resistance in oppressed countries. ProtonVPN traffic is still recognizable as such, and their Stealth protocol still leaves much to be desired. They need to work on that some more. Hopefully they will.
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