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I cycle 60 mins per day along the tow path in London on my Brompton, put it under my desk in the office, and then get the train back in the evening. No issues handling that distance.


If you don’t understand then you should invest some time learning microeconomics, marketing, and moats. Principles from (at least) those 3 areas are involved here.

To give 3 examples:

1. The marginal value of these products is in the mind of the individual buyer. No individual is buying both the AirPods Max 2 AND the MacBook Neo for personal use. You can’t compare marginal value across two different individuals.

2. The MacBook Neo has a different set of substitutable goods vs the AirPods Max 2. This affects margin. AirPods Max 2 buyers are likely heavily bought into the Apple ecosystem already.

3. With the Neo, Apple are in some sense subsidising entry into the Apple Ecosystem and ‘getting them young’. Wouldn’t surprise me if there’s zero or negative margin. With the AirPods Max 2 they are exploiting people who are already bought into the ecosystem. Margins will be high.


There's the Tony Hoare Room [1] in the Robert Hooke Building. We held our Reinforcement Learning reading group there.

[1] https://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/people/jennifer.watson/tonyhoare.htm...


>our Reinforcement Learning reading group there //

Anyone else, like me, imagining ML models embodied as Androids attending what amounts to a book club? (I can't quite shake the image of them being little CodeBullets with CRT monitors for heads either.)


The CB reference is appreciated, he isn't talked about enough here


I had countless lectures and classes there


Seems like the role of the human operator in the age of AI is to be the entity they can throw in jail if the machine fails (e.g. driver, pilot)


I’ve said for years that pragmatically, our definition of a “person” is an entity that can accept liability and take blame.


LLCs can't go to jail though


Because LLCs aren't people


Not to be confused with “human” thanks to SCOTUS.


"No, I am not a horse."

Horse rumours denied.


That's something a horse pretending to be AI would say.


*sweats profusely* https://imgur.com/a/PszeiAu


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I’d suggest reading about competitive moats and where they come from. The ability to replicate another’s software does not destroy their moat.


Optimal | London, UK | ONSITE

Backend Software Engineer (Python): Up to £150k + 2% depending on experience.

Optimal builds AI agents to control the world’s critical infrastructure - from factories, to datacenters, to farms.

We are backed by the Director of AI Research at Google DeepMind as well as early VC investors in SpaceX, Anduril, and Palantir.

We have built the world’s most advanced AI control system for high-tech greenhouses and have just signed out first customer contracts in North America and Europe having proven the performance of our AI across 3 seasons in our own demonstration greenhouse.

david@optimal.ag

https://www.optimal.ag


Anyone else think “vibe coding” is a poor choice of name. Too ambiguous.

Friend of mine suggested “apping”.

I ‘apped’ this in 2 hours vs I ‘vibe coded’ this in 2 hours.


And "apping" isn't even more ambiguous?


“Orchestrated” or “spliced” AOCS - ai orchestrated code splicing. Pronounced awks

I AOCSed that shit together in 2 hours.

Doubles as a play on the awk bash command for text manipulation.


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