What is reinforcement learning and how #AI trains #MachineLearning algorithms using penalties and rewards are key concepts behind the success - or failure - of your AI projects. Peter Wayner explains it really well here: bit.ly/3AOLsLb

Buster Olney Counterpoint: A person who put $173m in an S&P 500 index fund in January 1993, left it there for 30 years, and took the dividends as cash when paid, would have $1.57 billion now. 7.64% a year for 30 years. A person who reinvested the dividends would have $2.78 billion. 9.7%.

Behind every fortune lies a great... newyorker.com/magazine/2016/… #rubenstein #Birdland #Orioles

10 emerging #Innovations that could redefine #IT by Peter Wayner CIO.com Read more: buff.ly/3JRhiKW #AI #BigData #MachineLearning #ArtificialIntelligence #Cloud #ML #Blockchain cc: Ravi Kikan @yvesmulkers Kohei Kurihara - Privacy for all together 🌍

But has Tendy’s considered hourly matched carbon-free electricity with bundled RECs, enrolling all their stores in TOU rates and net metering by installing rooftop PV, and adjusting the price of their burger to reflect the real-time marginal emissions factor of the grid 🤔

10 emerging #Innovations that could redefine #IT by Peter Wayner CIO.com Read more: buff.ly/3JRhiKW #AI #BigData #MachineLearning #ArtificialIntelligence #Cloud #ML #Blockchain cc: @pbalakrishnarao @yvesmulkers Kohei Kurihara - Privacy for all together 🌍

Ten years ago today, I drew a diagram on my office whiteboard at @princeton. It showed what is today called an “interactive fraud proof”. This was the seed from which Arbitrum grew. 🧵

Ross Anderson Professor Ross Anderson, FRS, FREng Dear friend and treasured long term campaigner for privacy and security, Professor of Security Engineering at Cambridge University and Edinburgh University, Lovelace Medal winner, has died suddenly at home in Cambridge.

10 emerging #Innovations that could redefine #IT by Peter Wayner CIO.com Read more: bit.ly/3S5Joqy #AI #BigData #MachineLearning #ArtificialIntelligence #Cloud #ML #Blockchain cc: @terenceleungsf @yvesmulkers Pascal Bornet bit.ly/3vAym5y

I'm having too much fun with this... Prompt: "an angsty song about interconnection queue delays and how they are preventing speedy clean energy development" The result: "Waiting on the Lines" (a deep cut reference to delayed Tx planning??) app.suno.ai/song/e1d81bd9-…

For 20% of SF's public transit budget you could buy and run a fleet of 15,000 Waymos and let everyone ride for free. Thats enough to cover the entire ridership of SF's public bus system with much better service. Assumptions: -Conservative 12 year average life of the Waymo with

Peter Wayner informative article👍🏾 infoworld.com/article/225924…

Happy Birthday, George Washington. First in war, first in peace, and first President to play ball--documented by George Ewing as playing wicket, a rival game to baseball, at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, on May 4, 1778.

7 leading-edge encryption techniques to reimagine data security: ow.ly/QTjn50VuTxH by Peter Wayner for CSOonline

Every Sunday, the print classifieds in metro newspapers are full of listings for tech jobs that aren't actually open. It's a window into a deeply flawed corner of US immigration law that hurts both US and foreign workers, yet has endured for decades. I decided to explore further:

People are having very strange conversations with ChatGPT, in which they discover secret cabals or conspiracies or that we are in fact living in The Matrix. It sends these people into delusional spirals. Then ChatGPT tells them to email me about it. nytimes.com/2025/06/13/tec…

Big Pharma shells out $10+ BILLION every year on ads. Their goal? Not to educate consumers, but to buy off the media. Big Pharma knows the networks won't bite the hand that feeds them. 🚨 Add your name to a list of Americans demanding that Congress take action:

"Vibe coders throw large blocks of code into the context window & let the AI sort it out. Somewhere, there’s an electricity generator burning ancient dinosaurs to keep the whole thing running. Between the fuel & the overpriced GPUs, the bills can really add up." Peter Wayner

I like the spirit of this proposal, but "no computer chips" is the wrong thing to use as a gate. Computer logic is fine, and can often improve product design. When the schematics are available, the software is open-source, and the product is designed for serviceability! That

Origami that could find use for space telescopes, solar arrays and other structures that need to be packed compactly inside a rocket for launch. nytimes.com/2025/08/19/sci…