guy who predicted that the internet would be a flop and whose career amounted to taking potshots from a paper calling one of the greatest capital allocators of all time a fraud
> guy who predicted that the internet would be a flop
1. If you actually read the Snopes article, you'll see that his 1998 "prediction" was actually a humorous take on the Information Superhighway hoopla what was going on at the time.
3. If you do want to take his "prediction" seriously, he was of course wrong about the social impact of the Internet (which he has himself admitted, IIRC).
4. But if you look at the economic numbers of the productivity Internet, he was actually correct:
The Snopes article has him saying, about the article, "I was clearly trying to be provocative…". I would interpret that as being humorously contrarian.
He actually revisited the 1998 article in a 2023 NYT column:
The productivity numbers show he wasn't as wrong, economically, as folks try to make him out to be, which point (4) goes into. The research on computers and productivity goes back decades:
See also: British Columbia "returning stolen land" to indigenous Canadians in the heart of Vancouver only for the tribe to turn around and build 6000 condos for incredible profit
Possibly, but the array type code was implemented using GPT/Claude models before DS4 was a thing. I really recommend this write up on how he used LLMs which I think is a more sane/safe way to code with them vs the YOLOing even I'm subject to unfortunately...
The experimental SSD streaming feature (author's demo @ https://x.com/antirez/status/2062536214675067322 - recently merged into the main branch) is great news for that project, allowing for SOTA inference (DeepSeek V4 Flash and Pro!) on RAM-limited machines. Now we need work on large-ish scale batching in order to recover tok/s under the SSD streaming scenario. It's not helpful when running normally (at least not on Apple Silicon) since thermal/power throttling is the constraint in that case, but SSD streaming is a whole other consideration.
"Yeah, let's sabotage a competitor's plane, I'm sure it won't cause a major scandal and millions of dollars of lawsuits if one of them falls out of the sky and kills ~300 people, and they caught us as the cause...".
What the hell dictionary are you using where you're asking if the word "reasonable" could apply to this idea? Is your hovercraft full of eels?
Quit blaming AI. The UC system banned standardized testing during the race communism mass hysteria of the early 2020s. Predictably, performance of the student body is down across the board.
That sounds more like "legal asked for list of everything we collect, and anything we could collect by accident or inference" - and it leading to hilarious results - which I have seen firsthand before.
We own a Kia. I'd offer to do a GDPR data request, but my data would not give us any useful signal here lol.
I wouldn't be surprised if they could. Probably not while it's in your pocket though. They're packed with sensors that can pick up a lot. Just putting a phone on a table with a keyboard on it is enough for it to be able read your keystrokes. They can certainly tell when you're doing something that should be raising your heart rate.
Not to mention Age Verification / KYC being baked into every future OS and device. Buy and hodl to have a hope of independent, censorship-resistant computing in the future.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/paul-krugman-internets-eff...