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This is why we can't have nice things
I really thought it would be so simple:
So here’s an obvious prediction: AI will follow a nearly identical trajectory [as cloud computing]. In ten years, a new type of cloud—a generative one, a commercial Skynet, a public imagination—wil...
Brute intelligence
He’ll get it eventually.
Terence Tao is a mathematician. He was 20 years old when he earned his Ph.D. from Princeton University; he was 24 years old when he became a full professor at UCLA; he was 31 when he won the Fields Medal, which is...
Is "jobs" a four-letter word?
An office, 2026.
When three of us started a startup thirteen years ago, our first office was in a sublet of a sublet. The full office has space for about 70 people; we took a back room off to the side, among a scrum of unused desks and Aer...
Be a winner, or join one?
Kansas State?
Your whole future depends on what you are going to do in the next hour. Nothing less. You have got to strike for your freedom, and strike now, for the moment may not come again.
– Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream Hou...
To weigh a watermelon
The average watermelon weighs between 16 and 20 pounds. The most common American variety—the Crimson Sweet, which was created in 1963 by Kansas State assistant professor Charlie Hall, following ten years of researching other watermelon vari...
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