Leverage
The History of Mathematical Tables: From Sumer to Spreadsheets | Oxford Academic
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I need a good image to symbolize the Whispering Earring
it’s only going to become more relevant https://t.co/SWNMrqHpev
Convenience can indeed become a burden
Hydroelectric Design With Turbines In The Middle Of The Lake
youtu.beDams for rice fields!
AI is the new plastic
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There is beauty to naturally occurring material… and thought
In Defense of Progress
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The Death of the Junior Developer
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AI adoption and capabilities are distributed bimodally across industries.
Writing-heavy professions like writing, law, software are feeling it first. It doesn't feel that way because other industries are still untouched. That may continue for long or it might not.
It's always calmest before the storm
And the uncredited bioweapon
The State of AI with Marc & Ben
open.spotify.comAI and the Internet are different phenomena.
The internet increased the leverage of computers by connecting them to other computers. Amplifies things that benefit from wider distribution. Network effects.
LLMs are stateless calculators (computers). Amplifies things that have a lot of computational complexity. Quick and Reliable decision making.