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This ban (or attempt to regulate), similar to Australia's, is at least 10-15 years too late to be honest. It likely would have stopped or lessened the negative impact of FB (and its ilk, but mostly FB, tbh) on much of the society.

Now we know, of course, and everything in hindsight is 20/20.

It's STILL worth trying to regulate social media, now emboldened and firmly established as a rite of passage among youth, adults, and older generations.


There IS a market for non-internet-connected devices:

- fridges - toasters - TVs - home appliances - what-have-you

Whoever makes those, take my $€£¥

For everything else, there are crappier alternatives from all the consumer electronics OEMs


Thanks This is helpful


A tutorial on Robot Learning from the Hugging Face team.

A comprehensive tutorial on Robot Learning, with step-by-step derivations of the most relevant techniques from first principles, and hands-on code examples implemented in lerobot


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The bulk of investment has been funnelled to just 10 AI groups — Perplexity, Anysphere, Scale AI, Safe Superintelligence, Thinking Machines Lab, Figure AI, Databricks, as well as OpenAI, Anthropic and xAI. That has pushed up their combined valuations by almost $1tn, according to FT calculations.

“Of course there’s a bubble,” said Hemant Taneja, chief executive of venture capital firm General Catalyst, which raised an $8bn fund last year and has backed Anthropic and Mistral. “Bubbles are good. Bubbles align capital and talent in a new trend, and that creates some carnage but it also creates enduring, new businesses that change the world.”

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Must every (major) technological change result in financial bubbles??


That Steve Jobs coin really looks cool. It's the sculpture of him sitting cross-legged, surrounded by hills of Silicon Valley.

I wonder if these coins are available for purchase by the general public? anybody know?


Yes, the US Mint sells all of the coins in the American Innovation set to the public. Previous years’ coins can still be bought if they are not sold out.


Not an American but I wouldn't mind having some of these. Actually, coin collecting is a pretty neat hobby, especially for commemorative coins which depict a story like these. I wouldn't go in it for their possible future financial value though.


They should be available from the mint in collector’s tins, and available in circulation from eBay and similar.

They’re great to use as board game coins; much nicer than plastic chits.


The 2025 set is available directly from the US mint. Presumably the 2026 set will be available next year

https://www.usmint.gov/coins/coin-programs/american-innovati...


Thanks, all.

This is delightful.

I used to be a coin-collector as a kid. Kinda outgrew the hobby as I grew older. But I still love new/old/unusual coins (among other things). I think I might get my hands on some of these.


You can normally order rolls of them


The idea that emissions can be offset through projects that claim to avoid releases or to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere is fatally flawed.


This is one of those races... where EVERYONE wants to be above average -- like Wobegone, and speed thru airport security (theater) with TSA, Clear, what-have-you -- resulting in the only Nash equilibrium possible: even longer queues for both TSA, Clear, etc.

Exhibit A: the airline boarding process itself, which extends from Pre-Boarding, Special Needs, Families with Children, Vets, No-Vets, Everyone's mothers-and-grandmothers, Group A, B, C, D, E, F...


Another Doug Hofstadter book! This is so cool. Ambigrams have been one of my fav "things" since I saw them in the GEB book ages ago.

FWIW, "Angels and Demons" bestseller thriller (?) has a few ambigram puzzles that the protagonist Robert Langdon solves to get to the mystery of the Rosslyn chapel (my memory may be fading here)

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Thanks for this set of amazing fonts! They look amazing. Very glyph-y. And they tickle my inner geek.


On the "Angels and Demons" ambigrams...

The artist made such an impression to the book author, Dan Brown, that he (Brown) decided to name the protagonist after him.

Here's John Langdon, artist: https://www.johnlangdon.net/

Having met John (I showed him the second largest Escher collection), I can confirm he's a wonderful person.


Oh man, this is sad to hear.

Parker guitars is new to me. Saw some pics. They look absolutely gorgeous!!

As a profession, luthiery is quite niche. I feel it’s one of those professions, like all craftsmanship, that is timeless.

Looking at these pics makes me feel like I want to learn the art.

(Bassist here)


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