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Frangible construction means design to breakaway cleanly as demonstrated here or in the recent Tesla CyberTruck attack on Trump Tower!
While frangibility has advantages for many purposes in aerospace its major strength is also its major weakness. for this reason Tesla fans ought not be so haughty as to its “indestructibility”.
Great example of frangible couplings used in airport runway lights. They break cleanly to minimize damage to airplanes and service vehicles that run them over, also designed to minimize upset to underground wiring.
#Frangible flightlight.com/products/fra…
Honda built #solidstate batteries for EVs.
Honda did what Tesla won’t.
The plan includes using a continuous inline mixer that Honda says is “three times faster” than typical cell batch processing. Honda plans to make batteries on this line in January. theverge.com/2024/11/20/2430…
Tom Mueller at SpaceX is a great innovator - #ReachOutInTheDarkness inky blackness of space!
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NotebookLM is quite powerful and worth playing with
notebooklm.google/
It is a bit of a re-imagination of the UIUX of working with LLMs organized around a collection of sources you upload and then refer to with queries, seeing results alongside and with citations.
But the current most new/impressive feature (that is surprisingly hidden almost as an afterthought) is the ability to generate a 2-person podcast episode based on any content you upload. For example someone took my "bitcoin from scratch" post from a long time ago:
karpathy.github.io/2021/06/2…
and converted it to podcast, quite impressive:
notebooklm.google.com/notebo…
You can podcastify *anything*. I give it train_gpt2.c (C code that trains GPT-2):
github.com/karpathy/llm.c/bl…
and made a podcast about that:
notebooklm.google.com/notebo…
I don't know if I'd exactly agree with the framing of the conversation and the emphasis or the descriptions of layernorm and matmul etc but there's hints of greatness here and in any case it's highly entertaining.
Imo LLM capability (IQ, but also memory (context length), multimodal, etc.) is getting way ahead of the UIUX of packaging it into products. Think Code Interpreter, Claude Artifacts, Cursor/Replit, NotebookLM, etc. I expect (and look forward to) a lot more and different paradigms of interaction than just chat.
That's what I think is ultimately so compelling about the 2-person podcast format as a UIUX exploration. It lifts two major "barriers to enjoyment" of LLMs. 1 Chat is hard. You don't know what to say or ask. In the 2-person podcast format, the question asking is also delegated to an AI so you get a lot more chill experience instead of being a synchronous constraint in the generating process. 2 Reading is hard and it's much easier to just lean back and listen.
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Sheet with Sketches of Working People, 1890 #postimpressionism #vangogh wikiart.org/en/vincent-van-g…
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Research Project: Biography of Jo van Gogh-Bonger - Van Gogh Museum vangoghmuseum.nl/en/about/kn…
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#ConversationsAtADistance - The Diaries of Johanna Bonger-Van Gogh, translator of Vincent’s letters.
Jo was Theo’s wife and mother of Vincent Willem van Gogh (who inherited most of his uncle Vincent’s works and founded the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. bongerdiaries.org/introducti…
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Vincent van Gogh
Road with Men Walking, Carriage, Cypress, Star, and Crescent Moon
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This was a cool listen. I think Cloud+AI is increasingly making the @levelsio -style model of a scrappy solo serial micro-entrepreneur viable, allowing one person to spin up and run a number of companies that generate income, possibly well into billion-dollar valuations.
Here's my conversation with Pieter Levels (@levelsio), self-taught developer and entrepreneur who designed, programmed, shipped, and ran over 40 startups, many of which are hugely successful. In most cases, he did it all by himself, while living the digital nomad life in over 40 countries and over 150 cities. This was a fun and inspiring conversation!
It's here on X in full, and is up on YouTube, Spotify, and everywhere else. Links in comment.
Timestamps:
0:00 - Introduction
2:03 - Startup philosophy
9:34 - Low points
13:03 - 12 startups in 12 months
19:55 - Traveling and depression
32:34 - Indie hacking
36:37 - Photo AI
1:12:53 - How to learn AI
1:21:30 - Robots
1:29:47 - Hoodmaps
1:53:52 - Learning new programming languages
2:03:24 - Monetize your website
2:09:59 - Fighting SPAM
2:13:33 - Automation
2:24:58 - When to sell startup
2:27:52 - Coding solo
2:33:54 - Ship fast
2:42:38 - Best IDE for programming
2:52:09 - Andrej Karpathy
3:01:34 - Productivity
3:15:21 - Minimalism
3:24:07 - Emails
3:31:20 - Coffee
3:39:05 - E/acc
3:41:21 - Advice for young people
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Can’t commend this to your attention enough! IMO Harris Walz will be extremely friendly with Blockchain and stablecoin, particularly, #DigitalGreenbacks a la brilliant financial thinking deftly and repeatedly articulated by @rch371 Stability is good government #NeverBreakTheChain
Newsletter: As parts of the crypto industry scramble to court the Harris administration with events like “Crypto4Harris”, others insist it is Harris who must “bend the knee”.
citationneeded.news/issue-64…
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Song by Mike Smith about an old couple from Holland (though he never visited) beautifully rendered by Steve Goodman.
"The Dutchman's not the kind of man who keeps his thumb jammed in the dam that holds his dreams in ... "youtu.be/XeBD3rcAMFw?feature…
Great admiration for Pieter @levelsio and his dad for the strength of the work ethic inculcated in one by the other! Most admired Dutch men since Vincent Van Gogh and Eric Heiden (speed skater of Dutch extraction). Thank you for this incredible insightful interview @lexfridman!!!
Here's my conversation with Pieter Levels (@levelsio), self-taught developer and entrepreneur who designed, programmed, shipped, and ran over 40 startups, many of which are hugely successful. In most cases, he did it all by himself, while living the digital nomad life in over 40 countries and over 150 cities. This was a fun and inspiring conversation!
It's here on X in full, and is up on YouTube, Spotify, and everywhere else. Links in comment.
Timestamps:
0:00 - Introduction
2:03 - Startup philosophy
9:34 - Low points
13:03 - 12 startups in 12 months
19:55 - Traveling and depression
32:34 - Indie hacking
36:37 - Photo AI
1:12:53 - How to learn AI
1:21:30 - Robots
1:29:47 - Hoodmaps
1:53:52 - Learning new programming languages
2:03:24 - Monetize your website
2:09:59 - Fighting SPAM
2:13:33 - Automation
2:24:58 - When to sell startup
2:27:52 - Coding solo
2:33:54 - Ship fast
2:42:38 - Best IDE for programming
2:52:09 - Andrej Karpathy
3:01:34 - Productivity
3:15:21 - Minimalism
3:24:07 - Emails
3:31:20 - Coffee
3:39:05 - E/acc
3:41:21 - Advice for young people
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Here's my conversation with Pieter Levels (@levelsio), self-taught developer and entrepreneur who designed, programmed, shipped, and ran over 40 startups, many of which are hugely successful. In most cases, he did it all by himself, while living the digital nomad life in over 40 countries and over 150 cities. This was a fun and inspiring conversation!
It's here on X in full, and is up on YouTube, Spotify, and everywhere else. Links in comment.
Timestamps:
0:00 - Introduction
2:03 - Startup philosophy
9:34 - Low points
13:03 - 12 startups in 12 months
19:55 - Traveling and depression
32:34 - Indie hacking
36:37 - Photo AI
1:12:53 - How to learn AI
1:21:30 - Robots
1:29:47 - Hoodmaps
1:53:52 - Learning new programming languages
2:03:24 - Monetize your website
2:09:59 - Fighting SPAM
2:13:33 - Automation
2:24:58 - When to sell startup
2:27:52 - Coding solo
2:33:54 - Ship fast
2:42:38 - Best IDE for programming
2:52:09 - Andrej Karpathy
3:01:34 - Productivity
3:15:21 - Minimalism
3:24:07 - Emails
3:31:20 - Coffee
3:39:05 - E/acc
3:41:21 - Advice for young people
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Here's the links for my conversation with Pieter Levels (@levelsio):
YouTube: youtube.com/watch?v=oFtjKbXK…
Podcast: lexfridman.com/podcast
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Yeah, start building again
The Government wants to build new towns. In a paper for @UKDayOne, @KaneEmerson and I propose a huge new town at the intersection of the East Coast Main Line and the planned East-West Rail. We believe this may be the best greenfield site in England. Here is why.
