That privacy still exists In my spare time I’m a proponent of pervasive transparency. davidbrin.com/transparentsoc…

How are pervasive transparency and the end of crypto both landing in my feed on the same day? I have a pushbutton rant about cryptocurrencies and their total absence of social merit, directed at the assumptions claimed by BitCoin proponents from the early days.

Please write the short post 👀

The disdain for backward compatibility encapsulated in the phrase “pandered to the programmers” is what led Intel’s then-competitors to their doom. Prolly two dozen RISC architectures. I’ve written about Hyrum’s Law in the past: open.substack.com/pub/parallelpr…

The tush push must stay. Some teams execute it better than others; isn’t that the point? American football is derived from rugby. And besides backward laterals, it’s one of the few aspects of rugby play that remain. In rugby, it is called a “maul.”

One of the great paradoxes of AMD is that their CPU division owes its existence and recent great performance to a successful fast follower strategy; yet the folks running their GPU division don’t understand that a fast follower strategy requires the fast follower to follow fast.

In related news, AMD will be entering the CPU business

OP wonders: Why isn’t NVDA plummeting like s/w stocks? One difference is that although there is tons of open source software to train models, there is precious little RTL extant. Who has enough RTL to train on, and expertise to train models on it? (rhetorical question)

This propaganda account triggers a lot of secondhand embarrassment for me

Amazon Go reportedly was doing the same with their Just Walk Out technology. theinformation.com/articles/how-a… Amazon can’t claim not to know the history; they had a product called the Mechanical Turk.