HBO owns the rights, and it is intended to end up on HBO/HBOMax as a four part series. Interestingly, HBO's parent company is merging with Paramount, owned by David Ellison. Ellison is asking Musk for money to invest in this new company. So, Musk might end up owning it in the end...
In the trailer, there's this line: "When Musk says that the future of humanity is to colonize Mars, he is selling us dreams. That's not happening."
That irritates me a lot. Everything extremely difficult (or thought to be impossible) is a dream until someone (or some company) works hard on it and invests in it for a long time. Those that would criticize Musk & SpaceX for chipping away at this seem to be effectively saying "do not try."
Eric didn’t post the full stock option agreement, only its cover sheet. Given the language of the 1996 termination letter, it’s a good guess that the full agreement specified expiration 90 days after termination.
This doesn’t strike me as substantially different from the homogenization of the web that happened ~2013, with the rise of the Bootstrap CSS framework.
My opinion is pretty much the same, too: it’s better than what came before it, and I appreciate having a consistent design language across disparate sites even if I don’t don’t find it to be beautiful.
I'll just say that I'm aware of instances where founders have used "clerical errors" in an attempt to trick departed employees from properly vesting their options.
I don't have any inside info about this case obviously, but it's clear Nvidia would have ample motive to try to claw back whatever they could as mid 1996 was when they made their pivot after the disaster.
Again, not throwing around accusations here, just saying it may not be as cut and dried as "it was just an oops but everyone forgot about it for 30 years."
I feel this is the case for a lot of industries (and even a lot of productivity-enhancers, beyond AI).
I remember a much slower change where software slowly ate away the work of property managers. Especially convenient was the ability for the tenant to perform the 6-monthly inspection remotely by uploading a half-dozen photos per room, taking just 15 minutes or so rather than waiting around for several hours for a physical meet up with the property manager. Software also allowed rent payments to be easily automated, collated and monitored.
But I don't think the number of property managers decreased, nor the price that landlords paid for their services.
the big outstanding question for me (maybe answered elsewhere?) is... how can we verify this? Is there some external, actually independent group verifying, or are we in "trust me bro" land?
Given how misleading and negligent that have been, why should I believe them?
But, if you were to represent yourself, are your journal entries about said case privileged? Can the opposition call into evidence a binder of legal strategies you created that morning before court?
At what point does it become a 5th amendment issue? Maybe when we get AI in our corneas a la Black Mirror's The Entire History of You?
> They are statistical token generators whose results are dependent upon their training data set and involve a degree of randomness.
You haven't demonstrated why this matters.
> Nothing more.
Are you contending that complex systems cannot be more than the sum of their parts?
A market is nothing more than offers and counter offers.
A ant colony is nothing more than scent trails.
All life on earth is nothing more than reproduction with variation.
> This still falls under the purvey of statistical token generation.
Stating the mechanism does nothing to provide insight into capability. For instance: a nuclear power plant boils water by using fuel rods for heat. What does that tell us about the capability of nuclear power?
> This is not "doing" or "understanding" math.
Asserting something purely by stating it does not prove anything but that you intuitively believe it to be true.
An open question is what happened to the 15,625 shares that he received when he exercised his options in 1996?
If he had held on to those, they would be worth even more than the 9,375 shares he was entitled to but didn't exercise -- about $1.7 billion according to his math.
My guess is that he probably sold them when they were worth a lot less then they are today -- and would have done the same with the remaining shares as well.
It sounds like he probably forgot about them until his trader friends brought up nvidia. Otherwise why would he go digging through his documents upon being reminded?
I guess then you would also believe that someone who voted for the current president of the US also isn’t directly responsible for the war in Iran, ICE killing US citizens, and the alienation of Canada.
It’s easy to say “I’m not directly responsible” if you’re proxying it through someone else.
You walk into a dark basketball court through a doorway with a single bright light above it. as you approach the free-throw line, you realize someone has left a basketball at center court. part of it is lit by the light of the doorway.
even though you are very drunk, you don't assume that spinning around will allow you to se more of the basketball than you currently do. even leaning left and right while looking at the ball doesn't give you much of a different view.
the sun is the door. the moon is the ball. you are a person looking at the ball from earth. leaning shifting left a step might give you a perspective that may correlate roughly with moon-at-dusk. shifting right a step might give you a perspective that is roughly moon-at-dawn.
leaning forward or backward, left or right, drunkenly, and spinning around might give you different angles (relative to the line drawn from your ass to your head) that the shiny-side of the basketball seems to be pointing. but you're just drunk. the shiny part of the basketball always points towards the light above the door. it is just your local perspective that is changing.
"NVIDIA’s CFO wrote me a letter stating that 15,625 shares of my stock options had vested, and that I was required to exercise them. I did, and then forgot all about it."
Normally this is a right to buy at a given price. If he was billed for it, then there is very little chance NVIDIA can weasel they way out ot it. I suspect he never paid for the shares.
In general, most founding staff with lucrative contracts, are often pushed out just before an IPO. Doesn't matter if you were friends, worked 60 hour weeks building the company for years, or name is on the company patents.
A bit of cash can turn folks into awful people, and some contracts are just a obfuscated legal con of the naive. =3
Good to see & hear Chowning talk about the origins!
The DX-7's lack of patch-cord 'programming' ...replaced by 32 instantly-selectable, well-conceived preset patches in RAM ... was essential in 'democratizing' synthesis. Because it wasn't easy to make new patches, it also jump-started the patch-creation business.
The 16-note polyphony also didn't hurt.
" in 1986, it was used in 40% of the number-one singles on the US Billboard Hot 100." -- Wikipedia
At least in Europe people still buy cheap new cars.
In the US the people who can afford new cars generally want massive SUV's. Meanwhile a lot of the people buying used cars often would prefer a bare bones small vehicle with fewer years and lower miles than something fancier or larger but with more miles. But of course those aren't available since nobody buys those things new. Which leads to the ridiculous outcome that a lightly used Honda Civic is basically the same price as a new one.
I'm very much a fan of open channel flash. My understanding is that the Open Channel flash people when they tried a decade ago basically got told no by drive makers, that the drive makers weren't interested in becoming commodity vendors, and were intent on keeping product lines somewhat as they were. I wish I had some links to share to back this up, but that's basically my recall. ZNS and then FDP was sort of a compromise to give people some of the wins they were looking for, while basically not disrupting the product.
FDP is a very minimal addition of control. But yes it is another box to ticket, is another place to upcharge. Yet still, we're only just seeing mainstream products emerge. Kioxia's CM10 for example. https://www.techpowerup.com/351218/kioxia-introduces-first-p...
I'm hoping that the need is great enough to break the industry control. I think for a while the market felt relatively well enough served such that it was unclear whether clear wins would actually result in customers. With AI need for speed, I can definitely imagine incredibly crazy CXL controllers or what not, that allow low latency acces to many many open channel flash systems. Wouldn't that be a thing.
Again though, FDP is such a ridiculously tiny add, and it helps SSDs so much for so many use cases. I really hope it becomes an expectation, not a feature, sooner rather than latter.
