Why Minecraft won
It is not only about Minecraft. It is about how disruption works in the market
Technology
Recommended Read: The good times in tech are over
“Tech companies definitely did not have to be profitable. In fact, they didn’t even need to make money – they just had to acquire users, or at least hype, to drive up the valuation of the company itself. In that environment, throwing… Read More »Recommended Read: The good times in tech are over
Recommended Read: We have all been lied to…
“The role of transformers in inference was never the intent. It emerged as a byproduct of scaling, where high language diversity, hyperparameters tuned for variance, and autoregressive prediction started producing results that mimic reasoning. But they still are just a… Read More »Recommended Read: We have all been lied to…
Recommended Read: Techno-Fascism Comes to America
“techno-fascist officials “acquire power by creating these supra-ministerial organs and agencies, subgroups within the bureaucracy that are unaccountable.”” https://www.newyorker.com/culture/infinite-scroll/techno-fascism-comes-to-america-elon-musk
Recommended Read: There Is No AI Revolution
“OpenAI loses money on every single paying customer, just like with its free users. Increasing paid subscribers also, somehow, increases OpenAI’s burn rate. This is not a real company.” https://www.wheresyoured.at/wheres-the-money
Recommended Read: The Generative AI Con
“anecdotal examples of some people using some software that they kind-of like is not evidence that generative AI is a sustainable or real industry at the trillion-dollar scale that many claim it is.” https://www.wheresyoured.at/longcon
Recommended Read: You are all a bunch of sick freaks.
“I I actually work with and manage multiple Kubernetes, mission critical infrastructure that actually matters. I spend my entire day working with containerised applications, and what do I find when I load up Reddit? Ansible playbook writing maniacs trying to… Read More »Recommended Read: You are all a bunch of sick freaks.
Recommended Read: “A calculator app? Anyone could make that.”
“The purpose of a calculator app is to give you correct answers. Floating point numbers are imprecise – they cannot represent 0.3 or 10^100. This means a calculator built on floating point numbers is like a house built on sand.”… Read More »Recommended Read: “A calculator app? Anyone could make that.”
Recommended Read: If you believe in “Artificial Intelligence”, take five minutes to ask it about stuff you know well
“Because LLMs get catastrophically wrong answers on topics I know well, I do not trust them at all on topics I don’t already know. And if you do trust them, I urge you to spend five minutes asking your favourite… Read More »Recommended Read: If you believe in “Artificial Intelligence”, take five minutes to ask it about stuff you know well