The one conclusion we can draw from this is the folks drawing conclusions are exposing nothing but their own beliefs.

All we know is the dog was unleashed and the Waymo hit it.

We don't know if the dog shot out from under a parked car, so it was literally impossible to avoid. Or if it was sitting in the middle of the road and the Waymo ran straight over it.

All the folks trying to assign blame one way or another are doing so completely prematurely.

There's a narrative on the right that fascism was a left wing form of government.,

But the reality is that both fascism and communism were extreme right wing forms of government.

Fascism openly so, but also communism. Remember what fascism actually cares about, maintaining order, obedience to authority, sacrificing for the glory of the state.

Communism was supposed to be about equality and the people controlling everything in a bottom up manner. But the moment you implement it on a national scale you end up with a small inner circle, and they either go fascist like the USSR, or a technocratic dictatorship like China.

There's a reason that when the USSR fell the one narrative you heard was about how much the government lied (because they were far right masquerading as far left). And there's a reason why it was so easy for Russia to go far right under Putin, because they were under far right rule in the USSR.

So yeah, demanding public ownership is pretty on brand for fascists.

They've associated changes in the civilization with the changing climate conditions, it's likely not 100% certain, but it looks like a pretty likely cause.

That is a very weird take. The bits we modified are the best land, temperate zones, river banks, grasslands. You really want to move to some of that "untamed land" in the Sahara, Siberia, or Greenland?

And honestly, that map looks like a massive underestimate. I'm seeing big black regions in what I know to be largely unbroken crop land.

If you don't want Alberta to pump oil then don't buy oil.

But if you are going to pump oil then build a pipeline because shipping it by truck or rail is a horrible solution.

I want the oil industry to die because we're moving onto other energy sources, not because we're shutting down the Albertan oil industry so other producers like the US and the Middle East can make more money.

You don't seem to be thinking very logically.

What is more likely to be hit by a piece of space junk or micro meteorite, a space station sitting there for years, or a transport vessel just making a quick run up or down ?!

You also seem not to realize the kinetic energy and destructive power of these impacts - some of the most powerful weapons on earth are rail-guns using nothing other than kinetic energy to punch though multiple layers of steel, maybe pass straight through a tank.

FWIW the windows on this Chinese craft are triple layer, and the impact only cracked the outer one, so it must have been an extremely small object which is why they wouldn't have picked it up on radar and maneuvered out of the way which is normal practice.

What a weird question !

Why would it be different to any other modern spacecraft, capable of both automatic and manual control ?!

The Chinese aren't exactly a newcomer to space - they have their own space station, are currently exploring Mars with their own rover, and look likely to beat the USA to building a moon station unless we get our act together.

You see to be imagining these "taikonauts" in some primitive Chop Suey powered craft built using 1950's technology.

A TPU isn't a drop-in replacement for an Nvidia GPU or CUDA workload.

Google can build it's own Gemini models to use the TPU, and then any Gemini use will be on TPU, but if GCP is serving some other model then they also need to provide whatever that model is coded for, most likely CUDA/Nvidia.

So, the percentage of GCP AI load running on TPU is whatever precentage is using Gemini, or another Google model, as opposed to something else.

$30B is also nothing compared to what private companies are already putting into AI/ML, although there is little value in the government building yet another LLM, which is the compute-gobbler.

I wonder how this would even meant to work - if the US government made some, say, fusion or biotech breakthrough via AI/ML, spending taxpayer money, then which private companies are they going to share it with?

An untrained transformer is like a CPU. A trained transformer is like a CPU plus a program (the weights) that run on it.

You could say that the functioning of any computer program is mostly down to the CPU, but while somewhat true, that's a useless statement and fails to understand that it's the program where the logic is.

In the exact same way, saying that the functioning of a trained transformer (LLM) is down to the transformer, is somewhat true, but fails to capture what is really going on in exactly the same way as the CPU example. It's really the program running on the transformer, the weights, that is determining what it does.

Exactly .. the whole premise that you can accurately guess calories from a photo of a plate of food is bogus.

Of course in simple cases of easily recognized food, that don't vary too much, you may be able to come close, but even for something like a hotdog and fries, how big is the dog, how heavy is the portion of fries?

How is a photo going to tell you whether those carrots are just loaded with butter, or also a massive amount of sugar (an Anthony Bourdain pro-tip for delicious restaurant type carrots).

Just because you CAN ask an LLM anything, doesn't mean that you SHOULD.

He's trying, maybe badly, to get ahead of the story and control the narrative.

The fact that he's willing to admit, so soon after it's public release, that Google's Gemini 3.0 is better than their own GPT 5.1 is a bit surprising though.

Having played with "Gemini 3.0 Pro Thinkiing" at the surprisingly generous usage limits of the free tier, I have to say, even as an LLM cynic that initial impression is very good.

Yeah, this disappointing.

I was hoping it'd be delicious gooey cheese on the inside - a bit like a Brie perhaps.

So fake it until they give you a $1T pay package.

They did fake it. The "robot" was a guy in a robot suit, unfortunately, the guy in the robot suit got completely shitfaced.

Honestly the issue with the story is Ken Paxton, he literally has negative credibility. I know virtually nothing about Roblox or this case, but if Paxton is the first AG to pursue it my automatic assumption is he's prosecuting them because they either failed to give him a bribe or he thought they were helping Democrats register to vote or something.