Could you please provide any proof for: “if you look at any large company’s CEO, they’re there because they took these hits or provided plausible deniability for jig boss in the past”.
Never thought from this angle, interesting theory
Are you asking if any company, institution, or political party documented asking their subordinates to commit illegal acts in order to provide cover for the head honchos?
Generally no but when you look into scandals like Dieselgate, Enron, Lehman Brothers and others you'll see a pattern of lower level employees being pressured to sign off on misleading documents that the higher ups could just sell as "real". Work in any company or institution above a certain level and you'll see it every day.
It's a test for loyalty, it's a way to select a successor, and very importantly a way to subsequently guarantee that loyalty and keep the ambitious deputies in check. Every large organization is a pyramid scheme of avoiding accountability and passing it on to the lower level.
I’m curious about the reasoning behind this approach. Surely, Elon Musk and his team are smart enough to recognize the legitimacy of such research. Initially, I thought this kind of content was just playing to the lowest common denominator—a form of low-effort clickbait. However, this strategy risks alienating more educated or critical followers.
Given Musk’s intelligence and the capabilities of his team, I’m struggling to understand the logic here. Is it meant to drive engagement by polarizing opinions, or is there some deeper strategic intent that I’m missing?
It's not an app yet but I made this last night (after being spurred by getting modded into oblivion when I said I was doing this 2 weeks ago on HN, lol). Even cooler, 3.5 Sonnet took what I had and pulled me over the finish line. What a weird time to be a programmer.
I'm pretty sure you could find justification even for why top models don't support microSD card expansion. The problem with this line of argument is that if they wanted to, they could support both without any issues. The real reason is money. It's more profitable to have Bluetooth only when you also make AirPods, and not include storage expansion when you sell built-in memory options at a 400% markup.
*typo: you can send more than one bit per photon on average
I'm very curious to learn more about 1cm, what is the math behind it? Do you speak about classical music CD with ±700mb of capacity? I was always fascinating by ability of old super scratched optical disks still functioning without problems.
> I'm very curious to learn more about 1cm, what is the math behind it?
So I actually got that from a cool math talk I attended about 20 years ago. At the end the professor had a cool demonstration where he glued paper strips of various sizes radially on the CD, and exactly as the math he spend an hour explaining predicted, the CD player could cope with up to a 1cm width strip, but no more.
In a nutshell, you arrive at the 1cm like this: you can look up what proportion of 'wrong' bits the CD's coding can correct and other overhead. Then you look up the circumference of a CD (about 28 cm), then you do some multiplication, and figure out that you can lose about 1cm out of every 28cm, and still be able to correct.
Most of the interesting math happens at the first step of 'what proportion of errors can the music CD correct?' and more interestingly 'how does the CD player do that?'
> I was always fascinating by ability of old super scratched optical disks still functioning without problems.
Keep in mind that CD-ROMs have one additional layer of coding on top of what music CDs have. That's because if a bit error slips through the error correction chances are it still won't be audible to the human ear for music, but software might still crash with a single wrong bit.
> Do you speak about classical music CD with ±700mb of capacity?
Yes, that's because that's what I heard the talk about. I am sure more modern formats also have interesting error correction, but I don't know what they use and how much you could cover up.
that's truly incredible how much lives can be saved with good electronics and it-systems.
I wish the war ends asap, before the autonomous ai-powered drones comes into play... because at that point this might become complete skynet-like hell.
Unfortunately, I'm not optimistic about terms of war in Ukraine.
Unfortunately, war in Ukraine looks not like war of one country against another country, but this war like Democracy and free market against Communism.
And rumors said, military support for Russia from North Korea is larger, than support for Ukraine from US.
Just now military power of Ukraine is near to equal to Russian, but this is not sufficient to return occupied Ukrainian territories in some overseen time. I'm not sure, if we could afford Korean variant of large part of country sacrificed to communists to end war, because Russia will not stop there, they want to occupy territories of other countries - Poland, Baltic states.
So, we working hard, to make Ukrainian military more powerful with new technologies. All possible to save people lives. And yes, we use robotic units at real war, but their intelligence extremely limited, even GPT-3 is too resource demand to be useful, only image recognition technology now is practical at field.
> And rumors said, military support for Russia from North Korea is larger, than support for Ukraine from US.
Certainly China is funding NK support. So they use NK to covertly provide military support to Russia while they front as the "good guys" that support "peace" and only provide economical support to Russia.
