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That seems like a steal. The cpu is very capable and there’s plenty of RAM. And it’s a thinkpad…

Yeah it can’t be. Even an expensive car like a Corvette was only around $6k and most of the examples on this list are in the $2-3k range.

I think it’s a fair concern in general but fine in this case since the company almost certainly edited in the lux operon which is one of the most well studied and understood gene switches out there. It and similar pathways have been used in many branches of science for decades. I think the novelty here is just that it’s in a consumer product instead.

It’s hard to imagine how an LLM would figure out gate-level performance improvements but I could definitely see a GAN doing that with enough time and effort.

While China adjusts its feedstock mix at limited cost to its petrochemical industry, U.S. producers are facing more significant supply chain disruptions. Not only are these disruptions entirely of Washington’s own making, but they could have been anticipated by anyone with a basic understanding of ethane production.

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Which is especially annoying since it does touch on something interesting and human and ephemeral.

This is the kind of thing that could get him elected president or thrown in jail. Or possibly both.

I don’t 100% agree with everything here but it’s well done. And makes me sad.

It’s like bitcoin mining all over again. And providing roughly an equal amount of value.

He was probably pulling mid-7 figures for the last 3 years, so at this point I’d guess he just has 3 chickens in the backyard of his palace so that he has something to put on his LinkedIn profile.

I like to imagine there’s a Church of GPLv3 in this universe where the fundamentalist copyleft zealots pray to a warhammer-style forever-preserved skeleton of RMS.

A couple prices that went up also have come down, but not by as much as they went up.

I wish there was a good way to track this, because you know a bunch of corps are going to be trying to pass the buck (while also keeping it)