Brandolini’s law, also known as the bullshit asymmetry principle, is an internet adage coined in 2013 that emphasizes the effort of debunking misinformation, in comparison to the relative ease of creating it in the first place. It states that “The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than that needed to produce it.”
I find myself optimistic too. AGI is highly imminent. It’s not quite here yet, but I think soon it will be.
Just some intermediate level reading on the venerable topic of floating-point:
If you’re a beginner check out What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About Floating-Point Arithmetic.
There’s really no way to explain how wonderful this is.
Scored Dad’s old dressing gown. Pretty happy about that. It’s my new favourite thing.
At the moment I’m mostly all in on AWS, but this is tempting, and good to know about: Introducing DigitalOcean’s state-of-the-art data center in Sydney, Australia.
From time to time I find myself back reading about the Apollo Guidance Computer.
Found myself looking up this List of Sun Microsystems employees. Particularly interested in James Gosling and Bill Joy.
Here’s a whole rabbit hole: eurorack synths.