Emily Blunt caught pouring alcohol into a water bottle in public

there is no ChatGPT moment for robotics capability can skyrocket “overnight” but adoption is the long horizon all the opportunity belongs to those who can make adoption work. its a game of march of 9s (reliability), the last mile (deployment), and keeping it running (support).

Been waiting for this. Anna Delvey on Elizabeth Holmes in YCSE:

Lula has been elected President of Brazil for a fourth term, defeating Jair Bolsonaro.

One of my hotter NYC takes is that brownstone living is wildly over-romanticized. They’re expensive, drafty money pits with narrow layouts, endless stairs, and none of the conveniences of a doorman building. They only become less practical as you age or have kids. I suspect what people actually want is to live on a beautiful, tree-lined street in a neighborhood they love. Brownstones just happen to be the predominant housing stock in those neighborhoods, and we’ve somehow conflated the appeal of the two. The best thing about living in a brownstone is everything outside the brownstone.

we're so cooked

In language models, turning a generative model into a critic is simple: pass in the output and prompt for a score. Robot policies can't do this - they output physical actions & there's no built-in vocabulary to predict scores. So when it comes to RL on robot policies, we typically train a separate critic from sparse rewards - blind to everything the policy learned from the actions in the pretraining data. We think this has it backwards - can a critic learn from those actions the way the policy does? (1/n)

Elizabeth Holmes lookalike competition at Washington Square Park

we're in the part of the AI supercycle where founders are pitching startups to create infinite ai pain and "get acquired by anthropic to make us stop" as an exit strategy

I can finally talk about Mass Effect Universe. Since Bioware closed I can now reveal that I was part of the Mass Effect Council, saw what BioWare was building, and provided feedback during development. • Set 600+ years after the Reaper War • You play as a customizable N7 agent • Instead of being a walking gun rack, you're a cross between John Wick and James Bond • Shepard's legacy preserved, regardless of your ending • A galaxy divided into three major factions • Humanity, Krogan, Batarians, and more allied together • Council races forming their own alliance • The Geth emerging as a third superpower • A galactic Cold War instead of another Reaper style invasion with a shadowy adversary • Geth-built megastructures • Connections between the Milky Way and Andromeda • Experimental technology implanted in you as a unique point of difference • Hacking and manipulating the environment • See through walls, identify systems, remotely trigger hazards and more • Handcrafted missions like ME1-3 • But with Hitman-style freedom in how you complete them • Brutal close-range executions • Squadmates who can clash with each other • Romance wasn't being sanitised • Liara returns - now an incredibly powerful Asari Matriarch From what I saw, BioWare was making Mass Effect for us, the fans, not for people who don't exist. It looked incredible. And now we may never get to play it. Find out more here: youtu.be/ZOWrTNazZxM #SaveMassEffect

DUDE WHAT ETHAN KLEIN HAS BEEN CHEATING ON HILA AND THAT'S WHY THERE'S A HIATUS??? IM 💀💀💀💀

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