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A look at startups like General Intuition working on large action models, aka world models, which are trained on videogames and simulations, to pilot robots (Christopher Mims/Wall Street Journal)

Engineers and investors pile into world models, aka ‘large action models,’ to do for robotics what ChatGPT did for writing and coding

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That time YAML silently broke your config because of Norway

A colleague pinged me last week with a config issue that had him chasing his tail for an afternoon. Turns out he was setting country: NO in a YAML file, expecting it to mean Norway.

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  • Application runs without error, uses "false" instead of "NO"
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