Birmingham to London is 118 miles, that’s over $1B per mile of railway track. It’s corruption.
If I was in charge, I’d hire the Chinese to do it for $5B with the condition that British engineers can shadow the Chinese workers for training.
I’d then spend $1B to make luxury trains akin to first class emirates flights with $94b to spare
Imagine if a country announced it was introducing the death penalty, but only for Jews. Imagine the global outcry.
But apparently it's fine to introduce the death penalty only for Palestinians...
So, a word on the whole "guy uses AI to cure his dog's cancer" story that's going around:
I don't know if it's true or not. It's somewhat irrelevant to what I'm about to say.
What I do know is this: My wife and I are friends with a couple a few towns over. We buy duck eggs from them. The husband, a very alert, physically capable engineer in his 70s, got cancer.
They are absolutely avoiding the accepted treatments.
Instead, they're pursuing a therapy that mirrors what the guy with the dog dig: They paid a lab and got the tumor sequenced, and paid a company to develop a vaccine targeted specifically at the tumor's gene sequence.
And it's working. Spectacularly.
This isn't a novel approach. It's out in the world, and there are companies, doctors, and labs offering it. But the medical industry won't tell you about it. Your doctor isn't going to offer it to you as an option. You have to go looking for it.
It's not cheap, but it's cheaper than a course of chemo.
And it actually works.
I am disappointed in OpenAI's decision to work with the Department of War. The way DoW treated Anthropic stands against everything that makes America great.
It know it's not this simple, but it feels super opportunistic in a way that doesn't sit right with me.
A massive new study on peak performance included 34,000 international top performers: Nobel laureates, renowned classical music composers, Olympic champs, and the world’s best chess players. It shows early specialization is a trap, and the road to greatness is long and varied.
On the left, you can see two parallel trend lines for strawberry production.
But look at the middle and right and you'll see that the reason isn't the same.
You shouldn't assume that common trends have common causes:
@oliverjones_x@ChrisWillx Not sure where you got "young" from this but young people generally lean towards democrat and Kamala voting men are also prioritising careers
@jernejv@SheriefFYI@BannedIran It's on by default so that car manufacturers can advertise higher fuel efficiency and lower emissions, but people turn it off because they don't like it
It's unbelievable how many dynamic companies broke their streaks of engineer-CEOs for the first time in the 2000s, installing their first MBA/finance CEOs, who then promptly made fundamental strategic errors that nixed the company's future, that are now becoming obvious.
we are 15 months into 6 months away from AI stealing your programming jobs
updates
* devin likely has been murdered
* max promises to make recruiting even more soulless
* friend is attempting to take advantage of lonely people by providing them with further AI isolation