That's a separate problem which affects small to large players alike (e.g. ScarJo).
Small companies interests are aligned with Meta as they are now on an equal footing with large incumbent players. They can now compete with a similarly sized team at a big tech company instead of that team + dozens of AI scientists
So it's an important commercial route but with no passenger demand? What a geographic oddity! I bet you'd be hard-pressed to find any other examples of that, anywhere.
Not really. Cargo uses very different routes than people commonly. How many people travel from Shenzhen to the port of Oakland? Now how many cargo containers?
Just for another perspective, I've worked at a few companies including LinkedIn as a backend developer and I think LinkedIn is probably around 70-80th percentile in code quality.
There was significant emphasis on code quality at least on the team I was on, and an ever improving culture.
I did work on one voyager task though and I remember it being a nightmare
Cook's best trait is being reactive very well. What he lacks in the Jobs "magic", he has in the ability to react to industry incredibly well and do better than most.
I have little doubt Apple is going to be a major player in AI, especially in the non-Nvidia hardware space after playing around with MLX
I disagree. They had a leading edge with Siri but failed to invest in AI over a car. This move is just correcting a vital mistake in time past. They’re playing catch up.
> Public funding ought to equal public results. Both to the claims, the paper, the raw data and the peer reviews.
One of my biggest gripes with academia. More and more are universities and those who run it act like private corporations than non-profit research institutions
The legal concept of "lost wages" is the money you would have earned if you had not missed work. This is no different. There is an opportunity cost to everything.
Small companies interests are aligned with Meta as they are now on an equal footing with large incumbent players. They can now compete with a similarly sized team at a big tech company instead of that team + dozens of AI scientists