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Qualcomm, National Security, and Patents
The Trump administration blocked Broadcom’s acquisition of Qualcomm, and I think it was the right move. Understanding why means understanding Qualcomm and Broadcom’s plan for the compan…
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Netflix's Annual Reports (10-Ks) used to be a work of art. What happened?
Netflix put some serious design resources into its Annual Reports pre-2010. What changed?
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The future of deep learning
This post is adapted from Section 3 of Chapter 9 of my book, Deep Learning with Python (Manning Publications).
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Logstash joins Elasticsearch
Logstash is an open source data collection engine with real-time pipelining capabilities. Logstash can dynamically unify data from disparate sources and...
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The US is winning the AI race where it matters most: commercialization
Energy matters for AI, but the decisive layers are cloud infrastructure, data, and commercialization. On those layers the United States is ahead by a wide margin.
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The U.S. housing market vs. the Canadian housing market
The housing market is even worse in Canada than it is here.
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Why the U.S. can't build icebreaking ships
I want to say thank you to all the people who sent condolences following last week’s post, especially those who shared their own stories of loss.
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SouthwestAirlines' Meltdown Shows How Corporations Pit Consumers Against Workers
Our system is set up to create mutual antagonism between members of the working class. Meanwhile, faceless corporate executives remain shielded like mob bosses.
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Is Clojure dying, and what has Ruby got to do with it?
The past week or so a lot of discussion and introspection has been happening in the Clojure community. Eric Normand responded to my one year Lambda Island post with some...
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The Double Irish Dutch Sandwich: End of a Tax Evasion Strategy
I wrote a decade ago about the Double Irish Dutch Sandwich, a strategy for corporations to evade taxes that was widespread and large-scale enough to come to the attention of the International Monetary Fund. But due to various changes in national and international tax agreements, the strategy seems to have faded…
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Why is OpenAI buying Windsurf?
$3 billion seems high to me. Google is on a warpath. And Apple shoots itself in the foot, twice.
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Nobody Likes the “Idea Guy”
One time I had a “great” idea for a telephone company. Service would be free—all the calls you want! But you’d have to listen to advertisements before each one. I asked my friend what he thought the idea was worth. His answer: “I don’t know. Telephone companies make a lot of money. Maybe $1 billion?” […]
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Are we repeating the telecoms crash with AI datacenters?
Looking at actual token demand growth, infrastructure utilization, and capacity constraints - the economics don't match the 2000s playbook like people assume
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Andrej Karpathy's talk on the future of the industry
Transcript of Andrej Karpathy's YC AI SUS talk at Y Combinator on June 17th, 2024.
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Group Video Calls
Today's update lets you turn on your camera or share your screen during Voice Chats in groups – on all devices, including tablets and desktops. This brings voice chats to a whole new level, ready for online classes, business meetings and family gatherings.
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Economists study what happens when people stop using Facebook
In the most recent issue of the prestigious American Economic Review, a group of well-known economists published a paper titled “The Welfare Effects of Social Media.” It ... Read more
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The Moral Economy of Tech
This is the text version of remarks I gave on June 26, 2016, at a panel on the Moral Economy of Tech at the SASE conference in Berkeley. The other panel participants were Kieran Healy (whose remarks are here ), Stuart Russell and AnnaLee Saxenian .
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Useful engineering metrics and why velocity is not one of them
Hot takes and cold truths on software, startups, and the lies we tell ourselves.
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Introducing 1Password for Teams
The ultimate password keeper for business, 1Password simplifies team security. Secure your company's data with our business password vault.
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First-in-human implantation of bionic device to halt Crohn's disease (2023)
World first: Clinicians have implanted an electrical nerve stimulation device into a Crohn’s disease patient to stop post-surgery inflammation recurring.