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This seems like a particular branding on cache-aware data structures and algorithms. Is there more to it?

Lisp is the perfect family of languages for a config. Homoiconic for seamless config generation. S-expressions for shared human and machine readability.

Ah good point. The Intel Museum in Santa Clara shows signs of that too. Custom labels on bottles of wine to celebrate hittings revenue milestones e.g.

I actually enjoyed the first hand experience of an early-ish Google described at the beginning. For those with enough tenure in tech, was this ethos unique (at the time)? Or was it…

Is this equivalent to Google Cloud Fraud Defense? https://cloud.google.com/security/products/fraud-defense

Lots of unsubstantiated claims here

Do you think this is a global phenomenon or regional maybe just in the US or the Anglosphere?

These are still at currently subsidized prices. We'll see if they think they're getting $1500/month of value when that buys significantly fewer tokens.

Probably not so coincidental! At least part of this is slated for employee stock comp. Could be to keep their talent from running.

Other vibe coders?

In what world is China less "protectionist" than the US?

I don't know what definition of AI you're using, but plenty of ML algorithms operate deterministically, let alone most other logic programmed into a computer. I don't see how your …

History is littered with great ideas that lost people's interest and focus. A sad realization is that the focus may never return to them either.

Is this a submarine? https://paulgraham.com/submarine.html

That worked out, for the founders of frontier labs at least.

What you're doing here is part of the problem. "Suck it up, buttercup!" Many men would rather not work and deal with the financial and social consequences of that than deal with th…

There's been a lot of talk about "toxic masculinity" over the years but I've heard of and would worry about the female equivalent if I were considering a role in nursing as a man. …

I've been doing this with my kids, at least to some extent. It offers first rung on a ladder to understanding that complex things can be understood as cooperation among simpler par…

Didn't random companies add block chain to their names only just a few years ago and get 30+% jumps in stock price immediately?

What you describe is more or less exactly algorithmic information theory. From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorithmic_information_theory : "Informally, from the point of view of…