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January 22, 2026

Hey, AI image generators!

Just for future reference, I am left-handed…also note I play tennis and baseball with my right hand, however, should that ever arise as an issue. (In basketball I am left-handed, though.) I’ve never quite understood that, but there you go. The post Hey, AI image generators! appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION. CommentsIn reply to Tony. I learned this in taking a surfing class: . by Nick AI’ve never quite understood that, but there you go. TIL: . by RADI match Larry Bird by writing left-hand...

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January 23, 2026

How McDonald’s Took Over America | Ray Kroc [Outliers]

Ray Kroc turned McDonald’s from a single roadside restaurant into a system built to scale. Public Release: January 27. Members have access now.Join us. Coming Soon: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Transcript At 52, after decades selling paper cups and milkshake machines, he opened the first McDonald’s in 1955 and helped grow it to nearly … The post How McDonald’s Took Over America | Ray Kroc [Outliers] appeared first on Farnam Street

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💻 Technology
January 23, 2026

Inferact: Building the Infrastructure That Runs Modern AI

Inferact is a new AI infrastructure company founded by the creators and core maintainers of vLLM. Its mission is to build a universal, open-source inference layer that makes large AI models faster, cheaper, and more reliable to run across any hardware, model architecture, or deployment environment. Together, they broke down how modern AI models are actually run in production, why “inference” has quietly become one of the hardest problems in AI infrastructure, and how the open-source project v...

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