"if all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail" - Abraham Maslow
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One of the earliest computer artists, was George Stibitz: he formulated a way to implement boolean logic with relays, laying the foundation for all of modern computing, and in 1949, he coined the term "digital".
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Believing that the small elite group controlling the global tech infrastructure—undersea fiber cables, satellites, electricity, etc.—would permit any entity/system to thrive on their network that threatens their monopoly is a widely held yet profoundly misguided fairy tale.
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Lisa Su, the CEO of AMD, and Jensen Huang, the CEO of NVIDIA, are COUSINS
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The Staggering Ecological Impacts of Computation and the Cloud
"The Cloud now has a greater carbon footprint than the airline industry. A single data center can consume the equivalent electricity of 50,000 homes."
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In China, Fēng shuǐ (風水, Geomancy) plays a role in selecting sites for major computation data centers. Studies suggest that incorporating Fēng shuǐ principles correlates with significantly reduced error rates in essential system components, such as chips.
150y ago: The horror of Chinese geomancers at British attempts to construct railways across the Lung Mai or ‘dragon veins’ of their country resulted in a consortium of local businessmen buying and promptly dismantling the newly-completed railway line around Shanghai, in horror at the devastating impact it would have on the Feng Shui of the city.
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Lots of comparisons are being made between Cisco and Nvidia. Cisco provided the backbone to the internet, and Nvidia is doing the same for AI today. Cisco's products got commoditized, and margins went to zero over time. The current expectation is that the same thing will happen with Nvidia.
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Can you guarantee that this nuclear bomb will start on the very first try?
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Big tech AI is mostly an exercise in branding. In the backend, it all runs on the same datacenters owned by the same invisible financial interest group
