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SK Hynix stock went up over 9% - today. Up 72% in the last month. 323% in the last six months. 978% in the past year. Micron up 3% today, 76% last month, 292% last six months, 863%…

Tangential to the theme, here is the HN post about the (AFAIK) first public success of deep learning techniques with SuperVision's AlexNet. You can read what their prognosis on the…

With Gemini 3, I wrote an Emacs Lisp which can tell if a number is prime or not using only primitive recursive functions. That was done at the end of last year, and none of the fro…

Stock market last 365 days: S&P 500 - up 16% Nvidia - up 25% ICLN (global clean energy ETF) - up 46% Micron - up 246% Seagate - up 270% Western Digital - up 342%

Dijkstra's notions about provable functions are probably more important during these times where LLMs are churning out hallucinated code.

I am on the free tier of Gemini 3. With some intervention on my part, I got it to build, in Emacs Lisp, a primitive-recursive function for determining if a number is prime (by mu-r…

It's The Mythical Man Month idea. Programming software is a different thing than working on an assembly line, or a call center, or in retail sales. You're much better off having fo…

Yes...NVDA closed at $188.15 yesterday, a price it was never at until October. It did hit $212.19 last week, but retreated. After spring 2023, Nvidia stock seems to follow a patter…

From spring 2019 to July of this year, I worked at IT at a Fortune 100 retailer. The project I worked on was enormously successful in terms of revenue growth. I, and people on my t…

> If so, why wouldn't OpenAI or Anthropic etc get there first given their resources and early access to leading technology? innovator's dilemma

It lists 118698 installs of firefox-esr. https://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=firefox-esr

NVDA had a surprise earnings on May 24, 2023, closing at $305 and opening at $385 (before the 10 for 1 split). Pretty much every earnings day since then has been the same - the num…

It sure wasn't when AlexNet won the ImageNet challenge 13 years ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4611830

The ten most valuable S&P 500 companies are, in order of market cap: Nvidia, Microsoft, Apple, Alphabet/Google, Amazon, Meta/Facebook, Broadcom, Tesla, Berkshire Hathaway, and Walm…

> I've been reading this website for probably 15 years, its never been this bad. People here were pretty skeptical about AlexNet, when it won the ImageNet challenge 13 years ago. h…

Cisco stock (which I thought about buying in 1992 and didn't, unfortunately) doubled in 1990, tripled in 1991, doubled in 1992, and kept going up every year - in 1995 it doubled, i…

Nvidia's trailing P/E ratio is 53 (stock hitting a new high today). Its forward P/E ratio is 38. A year ago both its trailing and forward P/E were higher. So the stock is relativel…

Yes. In 2021, Nvidia was actually making more revenue from its home/consumer/gaming chips than from its data center chips. Now 90% of its revenue is from its data center hardware, …

The book Androids by Chet Haase talks about how the early Android team had a lot of ex-Palm people on it.

Most human ten year olds in school can add two large numbers together. If a connectionist network is supposed to model the human brain, it should be able to do that. Maybe LLMs can…

People have different opinions about this, but I think one problem is there are different questions. One is - Google, Facebook, OpenAI, Anthropic, Deepseek etc. have put a lot of c…

If I look at Nvidia stock from mid-June of last year, or the IYW index (Apple, Microsoft, Facebook, Google) - NVDA is down 10%, IYW is down maybe 2-3%. It doesn't feel like I'm in …

By the late 1960s, software projects had finally reached a certain size, and the particularities of managing these large projects were discussed at NATO software engineering confer…