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Joined December 2017
Data Catalyst Institute (DCI) retweeted
Deepseek is AI that costs pennies. Unitree is Robots that cost less than a MacBook. DeepSeek + Unitree G1 = the future of cheap, scalable digital labor. It’s not science fiction anymore. ❤️🤖
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According to the Unitree website, pricing for the G1 starts at $16,000.00. This is significantly higher than the price of a MacBook. unitree.com/mobile/g1 macprices.net/16-macbook-pro/ apple.com/shop/buy-mac/m…
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"Net Neutrality" was an idea created by an academic (who has since come up with many even worse ideas), and has always been a purely academic problem, completely untethered from consumer interests, economics, and reality. The rule was unnecessary and actively harmful. One way the rule was harmful is that it would have stripped the @FTC of authority over Broadband Internet Service Providers. Reclassifying broadband as a common carrier excluded broadband providers from FTC jurisdiction. This despite the fact that FTC brought the single biggest "net neutrality" case (maybe the only real case) ever as a normal deception case against AT&T Mobility. Anyhow, good riddence to a debate that has spanned my entire legal career and wasted millions of dollars and thousands of work hours in an attempt to solve a non-existent problem.
NEW An appellate court just struck down President Biden’s partisan plan to expand government control of the Internet through Title II “net neutrality” rules, citing Loper Bright. While the work to unwind the Biden Admin’s regulatory overreach will continue, this is a good win.
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Data Catalyst Institute (DCI) retweeted
"If you're not careful, the antitrust process can have a huge chilling effect on the entire innovation ecosystem," @nasdaq CEO @adenatfriedman tells me this week @Axios #AxiosBFD. Full story w/ Claire Rychlewski axios.com/2024/10/22/regulat…
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Data Catalyst Institute (DCI) retweeted
Voters care about crypto - they care about XRP - it's not a niche issue. They want real policies that drive innovation and create jobs. Candidates that ignore crypto and blockchain risk a serious loss in support from a growing, informed voter base.
BREAKING: 🇺🇸 ELON MUSK ASKED ABOUT $XRP! Elon Musk was asked— “Do you envision the XRP Ledger being incorporated into the financial institutions in the future” Elon responded by stating — “ This is definitely not an endorsement or lack of endorsement for XRP, but I do think crypto by its very nature helps with individual freedom.” — @elonmusk Do you believe $XRP with be integrated with financial institutions in the USA? 🤔💭 Comment Below & Follow For More!!👇👇 #ElonMusk #Ripple #XRPLedger #XRPL
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Data Catalyst Institute (DCI) retweeted
I don't think most kids today would believe how heavy "portable" computers were back in the 1990s. – at Virginia, USA
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Data Catalyst Institute (DCI) retweeted
Amazon now has over 750,000 robots deployed Each robot packer at a warehouse can replace 24 workers Packers cost $1 million each which only takes two years to recoup the cost
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Data Catalyst Institute (DCI) retweeted
The Sony Walkman came out 45 years ago today. It would sell 200m units and ushered in age of personal consumer electronics (cellphone, iPod, iPhone). An interesting detail is that Akio Morita — Sony’s legendary boss at the time — thought it would be too “anti-social” and instructed his team to build the first Walkman with two headphone jacks. He was right about the anti-social aspect (people plugged in by themselves) but consumers clearly preferred the solo version.
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Data Catalyst Institute (DCI) retweeted
Amazing sentence in the @nytimes: "Still, the United States lags behind Europe in regulating artificial intelligence." 🙄
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Data Catalyst Institute (DCI) retweeted
Step into the shoes of a #smallbiz with SUPER SELLING! The Game! 🏪 Experience the excitement of entrepreneurship as you make critical decisions and tackle the daily challenges real businesses face. Ready to test your skills? Play now at supersellingthegame.com 🕹️🎮
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Data Catalyst Institute (DCI) retweeted
"Only 31% of Chief Information Officers at large companies lead AI initiatives. Why is that?" datacatalyst.org/only-31-of-…
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Learn what it's like to run a small business with SUPER SELLING! The Game - a new online entrepreneurship experience by @DataCatalystOrg. Make the decisions, navigate the hardships, and explore how external factors affect small businesses. Play now: supersellingthegame.com/ 🕹️🎮
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Data Catalyst Institute (DCI) retweeted
First it was Big Sandwich. Now it’s Big Accessible Luxury Handbag! Save us!
FTC moves to block Tapestry’s acquisition of Capri. $8.5 billion deal would eliminate competition between Coach, Kate Spade, and Michael Kors: bit.ly/3WabfK4
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Data Catalyst Institute (DCI) retweeted
Are medical studies being written with ChatGPT? Well, we all know ChatGPT overuses the word "delve". Look below at how often the word 'delve' is used in papers on PubMed (2023 was the first full year of ChatGPT).
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Data Catalyst Institute (DCI) retweeted
Economists are happy to imagine superintelligence with resource constraints. Doomers are focussed on imagining superintelligence without resource constraints. Resource constraints are what drives the biggest variation in p(doom).
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Data Catalyst Institute (DCI) retweeted
Happy birthday to the World Wide Web! MIT professor Tim Berners-Lee’s invention was initially described by his CERN supervisor as “vague but exciting”: bit.ly/2EXaniz (v/@timberners_lee & @webfoundation, image courtesy of Sotheby’s)
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Data Catalyst Institute (DCI) retweeted
This isn't a video game. This is real. It's the future of warfare, and it's a lot cheaper and simpler than you might think. @SaoSasha shows us the first-person view drones that are helping offset Ukraine's shortage of artillery, funding, and troops. #GZEROWorld
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Data Catalyst Institute (DCI) retweeted
"In the past five years, it’s as though someone flipped a switch. For most of my career, I assigned around 30 pages of reading per class meeting as a baseline expectation. Now students are intimidated by anything over 10 pages." — college professor Adam Kotsko
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Data Catalyst Institute (DCI) retweeted
Ukraine has become the world’s AI War Lab. @Time cover story with my comments on how tech giants such as @PalantirTech turning 🇺🇦 into the best training ground for testing technologies. Working to make Ukraine the most innovative R&D center in the world. Join us!
TIME's new cover: How tech companies are turning Ukraine into a war lab ti.me/3SxrPQH
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Data Catalyst Institute (DCI) retweeted
📢 New policy brief: Who will be held responsible when the use of AI tools contributes to patient injury? Our latest brief explores the legal liability risks of healthcare AI tools and proposes risk mitigation measures. @MichelleM_Mello @NeelGuha stanford.io/42tQsCp
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