Posts by mathewi@journa.host
(DIR) Post #AU0zxbGl1r4LfDJFpI by mathewi@journa.host
2023-03-26T18:00:00Z
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@khoji True! But bank runs are not inherently financial or rational events, so difficult to predict, I would argue
(DIR) Post #AU2xq0aPCqVMH2fidc by mathewi@journa.host
2023-03-27T16:45:40Z
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@khoji Agreed
(DIR) Post #AU7LQkIBp9eY23Th3I by mathewi@journa.host
2023-03-29T18:23:00Z
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New:"Meet Walter Pitts, the Homeless Genius Who Revolutionized Artificial Intelligence"Pitts stayed hidden until the library closed for the evening. Alone, he wandered through the stacks of books until he came across Principia Mathematica, a three-volume tome written by Bertrand Russell and Alfred Whitehead, which attempted to reduce all of mathematics to pure logic. For three days he remained in the library until he had […]Read more: https://mathewingram.com/work/index.php/2019/05/02/meet-walter-pitts-the-homeless-genius-who-revolutionized-artificial-intelligence/
(DIR) Post #AUPpS2C2tskNXMpVTM by mathewi@journa.host
2023-04-07T17:27:01Z
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As I explain here, I have no plans to pay for Twitter Blue, not just because I disagree with what Musk has done with Twitter, but because the entire purpose of verification has been subverted by this new system, making the checkmark effectively meaningless https://www.cjr.org/the_media_today/twitter_verification_doge_musk.php
(DIR) Post #AUmPXnsMntonjyEFBg by mathewi@journa.host
2023-04-18T14:01:04Z
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What happened to "we should halt AI research because it's too dangerous?" https://www.wsj.com/articles/elon-musk-says-his-ai-project-will-seek-to-understand-the-nature-of-the-universe-a750d792?mod=djemalertNEWS
(DIR) Post #AVDMlT5NqNDkil3kSe by mathewi@journa.host
2023-05-01T14:57:06Z
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Just to close the loop on this, I got an invite to BlueSky (multiple invites as it turns out), so as soon as I have some I will let people know
(DIR) Post #AVDyLMMi0LWYbf8n4K by mathewi@journa.host
2023-05-01T18:07:23Z
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New:"Hello Kitty is one of the most profitable franchises of all time"Trung Phan writes: “Hello Kitty has been around since 1974 and, as recently as 2013, was selling $8 billion worth of merchandise annually. Hello Kitty merchandise has made $89B in lifetime sales, which is roughly equal to the combined all-time sales for Batman, the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and James Bond. The company behind Hello Kitty […]Read more: https://mathewingram.com/work/index.php/2023/04/20/hello-kitty-is-one-of-the-most-profitable-franchises-of-all-time/
(DIR) Post #AVFGUYqMyKw8FMVlui by mathewi@journa.host
2023-05-02T13:02:16Z
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@quinta Ah, very sorry to hear that!
(DIR) Post #AVyxSMrvvLz3U7NGts by mathewi@journa.host
2023-05-24T14:02:26Z
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New:"Nikola Tesla’s doomed attempt at wireless power"Gilbert King writes for Smithsonian magazine: “In the last days of America’s Gilded Age, Nikola Tesla made a dramatic attempt to change the future of communications and power transmission around the world. He managed to convince J.P. Morgan that he was on the verge of a breakthrough, and the financier gave Tesla more than $150,000 […]Read more: https://mathewingram.com/work/index.php/2023/05/24/nikola-teslas-doomed-attempt-at-wireless-power/
(DIR) Post #AVz3sSbLpgKeWBRXm4 by mathewi@journa.host
2023-05-24T15:10:34Z
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Very sad to hear The Nib is shutting down: https://thenib.com/the-future-of-the-nib/
(DIR) Post #AWSHdbJ9jvEb0TUTpI by mathewi@journa.host
2023-06-07T16:15:18Z
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Google's new Street View cars are really out there (via https://t2.social/Wolfgang)
(DIR) Post #AWga2WTrg90pd984yu by mathewi@journa.host
2023-06-14T15:05:43Z
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Ben Thompson on Reddit: "what undergirds everything is angst and irritation that everything that was supposed to be special about the web has turned out to be nothing more than grist to be fought over by millionaires and billionaires" https://stratechery.com/2023/reddit-rage-the-tadpole-shrimp-of-the-internet-judge-pauses-microsoft-activision-deal/
(DIR) Post #AYriCcrLlKdb4FZUMS by mathewi@journa.host
2023-08-18T19:46:25Z
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The man who became the Court Jester for the King of Tonga https://mathewingram.com/work/index.php/2023/08/17/the-man-who-became-the-court-jester-for-the-king-of-tonga/
(DIR) Post #Aanpk63JOfgQgngh5U by mathewi@journa.host
2023-10-15T16:02:04Z
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We give religion too much respectFrom Hamilton Nolan: "If you want to address the root cause of the bubbling right wing extremism that is distressing the political establishment so much, you need to stop obsessing about tactics and decorum and focus on the ideas. The derangement is the thing. And if we are being intellectually honest, we must admit that there is a much bigger locus of derangemenhttps://mathewingram.com/work/index.php/2023/07/13/we-give-religion-too-much-respect/
(DIR) Post #AapkHrsHrzrwkdzKSW by mathewi@journa.host
2023-10-16T16:13:44Z
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Andreessen says he believes that "everything good is downstream of growth." But what kind of growth? He seems to focus solely on material or economic growth, but what about psychological or spiritual or intellectual growth? Does technology help with that? https://pmarca.substack.com/p/the-techno-optimist-manifesto?nthPub=1111
(DIR) Post #Ab8rOyWomeCi9bHQKO by mathewi@journa.host
2023-10-25T21:27:20Z
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By the end of September, more than half of the world’s countries could fit inside the land burned this year in the Canadian wilderness https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/24/magazine/canada-wildfires.html?unlocked_article_code=1.5Ew.IVnM.IWHdWPhufYlt&smid=url-share&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
(DIR) Post #AbAOiGUXiCal0tyuWG by mathewi@journa.host
2023-10-25T20:38:29Z
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Thanks for the shoutout in your excellent newsletter, @clive
(DIR) Post #AbAPHA5tUQgbJ75mXQ by mathewi@journa.host
2023-10-26T15:59:53Z
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@clive Same!
(DIR) Post #AdPbHb6dFWBrYAMAxU by mathewi@journa.host
2024-01-01T17:34:41Z
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Cray vs Raspberry Pi https://mathewingram.com/work/index.php/2023/12/31/cray-vs-raspberry-pi/
(DIR) Post #Adby8I073vOx9yeQhE by mathewi@journa.host
2024-01-07T17:13:46Z
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Some great movies on this list, but 12 Monkeys, Repo Man, and Buckaroo Banzai are way too far down IMO https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-lists/best-sci-fi-movies-1234893930/donnie-darko-2001-3-1234930951/