flâneur

nicolas

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  • if slightly more sophisticated models don’t perform any better than naive baseline, there is likely limited structural autocorrelation to take advantage of.
    The Unreasonable Difficulty of Time Series Forecasting
  • He was, according to a colleague "before all things, a practical man, who made up for the enforced insufficiency of his technical knowledge by a coup d'œil (glance) of surprising accuracy".
    Louis Favre (engineer)
  • But more likely it has something to do with VLM-based VLAs getting stuck. Modern VLAs benefited from massive vision-language pretraining, but they still hit a language-to-action grounding wall.
    Pretrained to Imagine, Fine-Tuned to Act: The Rise of World-Action Models | NVIDIA Technical Blog
  • In fact, Amazon currently has a crisis of having already cycled through every low-wage worker in some regions.
    Robotics Levels of Autonomy
  • Carriage manufacturers saw themselves not as transportation companies, but as craftsmen of elegant, horse-drawn vehicles. Cars weren’t an evolution—they were heresy.
    Steve Blank Innovation and Entrepreneurship July 2025
  • Hand-loading a ship cost $5.86 a ton at that time. Using containers, it cost only 16 cents a ton to load a ship, 36-fold savings.
    Malcom McLean
  • in 1775, he produced, on average, one mathematical paper per week.
    Leonhard Euler
  • In an effort to avoid naming everything after Euler, some discoveries and theorems are attributed to the first person to have proved them after Euler.
    List of topics named after Leonhard Euler
  • Where a lot of “Uber for x” companies fall down – valet parking, car washing, massages, etc – is that demand is often infrequent and there’s spikes at a few points in the day
    Why “Uber for X” startups failed: The supply side is king at andrewchen
  • They focused on college campuses first. In hindsight or from the outside it seems like a no brainer but it was critical. The user experience was compelling. It offered clear and immediate value. A few campus parties and next thing you know the whole campus was hooked.
    How to solve a cold start in a product which needs critical mass to be useful : r/startups
  • "Image 3850" had been downloaded only six times prior to Streisand's lawsuit, two of those being by Streisand's attorneys;[16] public awareness of the case led to more than 420,000 people visiting the site over the following month.[
    Streisand effect
  • Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web,
    Jerry Yang
  • During the 1870s and 1880s, the U.S. economy rose at the fastest rate in its history,
    Gilded Age
  • o Datacenter Deployment. The software is not licensed for datacenter deployment, except that blockchain processing in a datacenter is permitted.”
    Nvidia updates GeForce EULA to prohibit data center use - DCD
  • Its name derives from the first user-editable website called WikiWikiWeb – wiki (pronounced [wiki][note 1]) is a Hawaiian word meaning 'quick'.
    Wiki - Wikipedia
  • arting [at a young age] he’s read everything that he could find about business. The subject that interests him, he’s read newspapers, biographies, trade press. He went over to his grandfather who was a grocer and he read the progressive grocer magazine, and he read articles on how to stock a meat department... What he’s really done is he’s created this immense vertical filing cabinet in his brain of layers and layers and layers of files of information that he can draw back on now for more than 70 years worth of data.
    Curius / Onboarding