Logistics is fun. “So this army is stopped in what looks to be more or less the middle of the day. From a logistics perspective, this is a disaster. As I tell my students, pre-modern armies are like sharks, they… Read More »Collections: The Preposterous Logistics of the Loot Train Battle (Game of Thrones, S7E4)
Turning manufacturing model upside down. “Specifically, they have lost their lead to one remarkable Taiwanese company: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company. TSMC are essentially the world’s greatest machinists. Other companies design the chips, and other companies create the (incredibly advanced) machine… Read More »FDI is the Missing Piece of Japan’s Puzzle
Some people have a lot of free time.
2 and 3 work great if you are wrong. “there are three ways to approach a problem: Move the world towards the desired state Change your perception of the current state Change your desired state” https://andreasfragner.com/writing/three-ways-to-solve-problems
This is a paradigm shift. “it’s precisely because everyone can access the Internet that there is an abundance of content, far too much for anyone to consume; this gives power to Aggregators who sort that content on consumers’ behalf, delivering… Read More »Netflix and the Hollywood End Game
And many people died building it (as most shit in the history).
People ignoring reality will not bring the future. “if you want to produce 10 exaflops on a chip, you can do that easily — but you will not be able to service it with memory, making it useless FLOPS (the… Read More »Why AGI Will Not Happen
But in the hard simple way. “Games are machines built around uncertainty. Almost all games end by turning an uncertain outcome into a certain one. There’s a problem facing you, and you don’t know if you can overcome it to… Read More »Game design is simple, actually
The trap of a good job is, that you can become useless. You are good at it, and it works out on the job, but it might happen that you stagnate and have no skill applicable, or even worse, presentable… Read More »Becoming Useless
There are different types of work. Only some are real. “our imagination of others’ work is a gross simplification, is incomplete, and is also fundamentally incorrect in various ways, depending partly on the differences in work and context between the… Read More »The Varieties of Human Work