Eric Platon

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Investors finding infinite loops of promised valuation should feel in heaven. Proverbial flywheels! Or perfection in fanning thin air.

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Subtle activism. Who will notice? Apparently in the UK. Found in a LinkedIn post, and unable to find it again (little trying).

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They include in those solutions a “high performance laptop” (no spec), probably meaning with a recent Nvidia board. That would add like 2-3K to something like Locobot. Still far from $30K. Noticing any expensive sensor? Or perhaps the gravity compensator (no idea of price range) ?

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Surprising how the new narrative seems both incoherent, yet convincing more and more people (including “educated” ones). There is novelty here, in how it seems to crystallize and spread.

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A bit surprised, how do they justify the cost? Their Locobot was $5K, with one Roomba-like base, one arm, LiDAR and RealSense, NCU, and even goodies like a PlayStation 4 controller. Steep difference. Perhaps the bulk of the cost is some nifty compute.

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Is it now looking like such an approach can work in arbitrary environments? Behaviour cloning seems to speed up greatly time-to-market in controlled environments. Elsewhere, wondering what the guarantees are, notably verifiable “nothing bad can happen” kind of property (quoted as too strong a shortcut expression).

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Learned recently that the first cars were… electric (a few years before the era here). Battery infrastructure was of course completely absent, and the one that was easier to roll out was for thermal versions. How history can put things in perspective!

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YIKES! As someone who has booked through AirBnB just learned co-founder of AirBnB has joined the Elon Musk DOGE team. Boycott AirBnB! There are many other vacation rentals.

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File under example of “behavioural hereditary meritocracy”. Or just “meritocracy”, no need for pleonasm.

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Ready for the Great Sharp Blurring? https://ambrook.com/research/technology/waiter-there-is-pork-in-my-plants

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There is indeed much rigidity across Europe. A difference with the US is the level of protection for everyone (the several social security measures), which require much complicated work to stay operational. The could at least move away from punch cards and 90s web sites. But as JFK once mentioned the Chesterton’s fence, we should think twice before hastily destroying the European fabric and its safety net. Need for reform, but not any reform. The problem in Europe is lack of political will to coherently improve things. Status quo seems to lead to simplistic “break it all” solutionism there too. Rigidity should go away, but to do that well Europeans need to spend time make it happen soundly, before imposed by others.

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https://frame.weponder.io/api/polls/29395

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Thanks for the tip. It worked. And I wish the day I would listen to something like that had never come. Is that free speech?

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Is that what they say in this video? (No sound for me, daring not yet go listen elsewhere)

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Totally agree, typography errors are unacceptable. As well as what such a message suggests.

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Sadly. It really looks like the many people who thought daily-life climate change would make people tip were wrong for some psychological reason.

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Sufficient scale and skills. Right now it still looks like a pre-AOL and Yahoo directory world. And more than two decades later, never has been so much “illiteracy”.

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Will cacao and coffee prices raise awareness? https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/feb/15/extreme-weather-likely-to-cause-further-food-price-volatility-analysts-say

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I don’t understand why Vance keeps referring to his country in small letters.

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Only 9 steps to delete a Facebook account. https://www.facebook.com/help/224562897555674/?helpref=uf_share

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