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He/Him - herder of electrons, wearer of all technical hats at a startup, one person development team. From Iowa but flee to flourish. In DC for the time. I stand with the 🥄
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If you want to add my book on Goodreads, it's here: www.goodreads.com/book/show/19... But in all seriousness: Vance's comments + Rubio's announcement about revoking the visas of Chinese students => history repeating itself. Qian was deported after wrongly accused of being a spy by the USG.

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

A lot of people know about the Germans in the space program, but the more relevant engineer might be Qian Xuesen, the MIT/CalTech aerospace professor who co-founded JPL and was sent to recruit the Germans. We deported him the 1950s. He became the leader of China’s missile program.

submitted 10 days ago • 72 comments

Some of the emails from the AI paper are absolutely deranged, like providing 1 second notice to legal proceedings. It's almost like they tried it on the am I the asshole subreddit. arxiv.org/html/2502.15...

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

youtu.be/Xo8-nPhoT9w?...

submitted 24 days ago • 1 comment

Golombok has even found that parents in nonconventional family structures tend to be more involved than straight, married parents on average, probably because they are more likely to have deliberately chosen parenthood.

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LLMs are an Excel sheet where every field is a date.

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