newfocogi (u/newfocogi)

newfocogi commented on Marissa Mayer will close her old AI startup, sell assets to her new AI startup techcrunch.com/2025/09/29... · Posted by u/bookofjoe

newfocogi · 3 months ago

"Former Yahoo CEO Marissa Meyer is closing the doors on her consumer software startup Sunshine, and is selling the company’s assets to her new AI startup, Dazzle" and "all of Sunshine’s employees will move to the new company".

Under what conditions is it better to buy the assets and hire the employees instead of just change the name and product offering of the company? Is it just to get the investors off the cap table?

newfocogi commented on Improved Gemini 2.5 Flash and Flash-Lite developers.googleblog.com... · Posted by u/meetpateltech

newfocogi · 3 months ago

Non-AI Summary:

Both models have improved intelligence on Artificial Analysis index with lower end-to-end response time. Also 24% to 50% improved output token efficiency (resulting in lower cost).

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite improvements include better instruction following, reduced verbosity, stronger multimodal & translation capabilities. Gemini 2.5 Flash improvements include better agentic tool use and more token-efficient reasoning.

Model strings: gemini-2.5-flash-lite-preview-09-2025 and gemini-2.5-flash-preview-09-2025

newfocogi commented on OpenAI and Nvidia announce partnership to deploy 10GW of Nvidia systems openai.com/index/openai-n... · Posted by u/meetpateltech

fancyfredbot · 3 months ago

Rational.

newfocogi · 3 months ago

Maybe we're not sure if they're being rational or rationalizing.

newfocogi commented on Clankers Die on Christmas remyhax.xyz/posts/clanker... · Posted by u/jerrythegerbil

newfocogi · 3 months ago

For others who, like me, didn't know what "clankers" are: it appears it's a popular derogatory term for robots or AI, arising from the Star Wars universe where clone troopers used the term as a derogatory term for droids.

newfocogi commented on How does the US use water? construction-physics.com/... · Posted by u/juliangamble

testing22321 · 4 months ago

It staggers me you’ve never wondered these things before.

You’re paying money and using resources and you’ve never looked into the details?

Living in Australia where both are expensive and very finite it’s a must.

newfocogi · 4 months ago

I track my water usage and electricity usage every month. I'm confused why the cost ratio is off by an order of magnitude from the author. The base monthly charge of my water bill ignoring any usage is more then 10% of my largest electricity bill (so maybe that's the answer right there).

newfocogi commented on How does the US use water? construction-physics.com/... · Posted by u/juliangamble

newfocogi · 4 months ago

I found a lot of value in this article. Out of frustration with people who are alarmist over how much water a datacenter "consumes" compared to households, I've probably erred too often towards:

'People sometimes invoke the idea that water moves through a cycle and never really gets destroyed, in order to suggest that we don’t need to be concerned at all about water use. But while water may not get destroyed, it can get “used up” in the sense that it becomes infeasible or uneconomic to access it.'

Side note, this personal anecdote from the author caught me off guard: "my monthly water bill is roughly 5% of the cost of my monthly electricity bill". I'm in the American southwest (but not arid desert like parts of Arizona/Nevada/Utah), and my monthly water cost averages out annually to ~60% of the cost of electricity. Makes me wonder if my water prices are high, if my electricity prices are low, if my water usage is high or my electricity usage is low.

newfocogi commented on AnduinOS anduinos.com/... · Posted by u/TheFreim

newfocogi · 4 months ago

I made it half way down the page before I realized this wasn’t “ArduinOS”.

I can’t be the only one.

newfocogi commented on New treatment eliminates bladder cancer in 82% of patients news.keckmedicine.org/new... · Posted by u/geox

newfocogi · 4 months ago

My (non-AI) Summary:

- "TAR-200 is a miniature, pretzel-shaped drug-device duo containing a chemotherapy drug, gemcitabine, which is inserted into the bladder through a catheter. Once inside the bladder, the TAR-200 slowly and consistently releases the gemcitabine into the organ for three weeks per treatment cycle."

- Phase 2 Clinical Trial

- 85 patients with high-risk non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer

- "treated patients with TAR-200 every three weeks for six months, and then four times a year for the next two years"

- 70/85 patients—the cancer disappeared and still gone 1yr later in almost 50% patients

- FDA granted TAR-200 a New Drug Application Priority Review

- Johnson & Johnson manufactures TAR-200

newfocogi commented on Every satellite orbiting earth and who owns them (2023) dewesoft.com/blog/every-s... · Posted by u/jonbaer

benjiro · 5 months ago

> It added 2,300+ satellites in the one year period ending Jun 2025.

Take in account, that a lot of those are replacement sats for the first generations that they are deorbiting already. Do not quote me on this, but its a insane amount (i though it was around 2k) of the first generation that they are deorbiting. If there is a issue, its not the amount of sats in space, but more the insane amount of deorbiting StarLink is doing.

Starlink wanted to put up insane numbers, but a lot of their fights contain a large percentage of replacement sats.

And they are getting bigger ... v1.5 is like 300kg, the v2.0 mini (ironic as its far from mini compared to its predecessors) are 800kg.

So before StarLink launched 60x v1.5's but now they are doing 21x v2.0 Mini's per launch.

The technology has been improving a lot, allowing for a lot more capacity per satellite. Not sure when they start launching v3's but those have like 3x the capacity for inner connects/ground stations and can go up to 1Gbit speeds (compared to the v2's who are again much more capable then multiple v1.5s).

So what we are seeing is less satellites per launch but more capacity per sat. This year is the last year that they are doing mass 1.5 launches, its all now going to the v2.0 "mini" (so 3x less sats).

newfocogi · 5 months ago

I love checking out the Starlink launches wikipedia page every so often [1], which is regularly updated. Here's stats as of today:

"As of 31 July 2025:

Satellites launched: 9,314

Satellites failed or deorbited: 1,237

Satellites in orbit: 8,096

Satellites working: 8,077

Satellites operational: 7,040"

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Starlink_and_Starshiel...