Silicon Valley’s race toward artificial superintelligence is fueled by boundless ambition and massive capital investment. But economics keeps whispering an inconvenient truth to the Singularity-obsessed techies: The work of even the smartest machine is chained to its slowest task. The post The Speed Limit on the Singularity appeared first on American Enterprise Institute - AEI.| American Enterprise Institute – AEI
First set of examples here: Examples of group madness in technology Many of these taken from the comments on the last one; thanks bros. Again, one of the worst arguments I hear is that “thing X is inevitable because the smart people are doing it.” There are tons of examples of smart people doing and working […]| Locklin on science
A couple of weeks late, this progress report, I must admit, but I was in the US again at the end of August and there was a milestone I wanted to get to before posting which I’m delighted to say I have finally reached. Yes indeed, I’ve typed the last words of the first draft […]| Joe Abercrombie
Save, invest, prosper with My Own Advisor. Weekend Reading – How I built my dividend portfolio Well hello again! Welcome to some new Weekend Reading related to How I built my dividend portfolio, an update triggered by recent reader questions as our retirement draws near… In case you missed some recent posts here they are: Last weekend I heard from dozens of… Join the million dollar portfolio journey. The article Weekend Reading – How I built my dividend portfolio is exclusive to My Ow...| My Own Advisor
John Rawls and Philip Pettit agree about the idea that a liberal democracy depends on the idea that all citizens have equal liberties, rights, worth, and dignity. Therefore they also agree that social and legal arrangements that are incompatible with equal rights, equal liberties, and equal dignity are illegitimate. They disagree in some details about … Continue reading "Can liberal political philosophy support anti-racism?"| Understanding Society
We might say that a political philosophy is a formulation of the normative ideals that the philosopher holds to be primary in implementing the moral and social facts of “assemblages of free i…| Understanding Society
Several years ago, I suffered a cervical herniation between my C5 and C6 vertebrae. It happened during sparring at my Brazilian jiu jitsu academy. I got caught in a guillotine and rather than tap, I tried to fight out of it. Why did I do that? Because I’m an idiot. More on that later. As the day wore on, my neck became more and more stiff.… The post How to Harness the Hidden Power of Practice appeared first on Whole Life Challenge.| Whole Life Challenge
Charles Mann on the unseen, unappreciated wonders of modern infrastructure.| colemanm.org
Paris Street; Rainy Day, 1877. Artist Gustave Caillebotte. A current exhibition of the paintings of Gustave Caillebotte (1848-1894) at the Art Institute in Chicago is quite remarkable. It demonstra…| Understanding Society
The notice was thoughtfully displayed on top of a writing pad next to the telephone, in our hotel in Shanghai. But no one telephones nowadays. So I didn’t see the sheet of paper, with its neatly formatted corporate logos, until my daughter brought it to me to make her a paper airplane. | Hmm Daily
Chicago is a highly diverse city, and it is a good example of life in a multicultural democracy. The image above is a photo of the crowd on Navy Pier on a recent Saturday summer evening. According …| Understanding Society
This report series seeks to understand the educational trajectories of millions of U.S. adults who left postsecondary education without receiving a postsecondary credential and are no longer enrolled.| National Student Clearinghouse Research Center
Bulking was one of the best gifts I've ever given myself.| She's A Beast
If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.| Jayson Salazar Rodriguez | @jdsalaro | Blog
As a self-declared pessimist, I've not been sold on the "impatient optimist" messaging this past decade. Yet hope-based communication is a trend and continues to flourish. What am I - and millions of other people - not buying into?| Katri Bertram
Learning from Success Stories Understanding the practical application of industrialized InfraOps can be enhanced by examining real-world examples. By exploring case studies of organizations that have successfully transitioned from traditional to industrialized operations, we can identify key strategies and address challenges to maximize outcomes. Tesla’s approach to manufacturing| justindustrious
Learning from the Past Understanding the necessity and potential of industrializing InfraOps requires a look back at historical precedents. Throughout history, industrialization has transformed industries, leading to unprecedented levels of efficiency and productivity. The current state of IT operations can learn much from these past transformations. The Industrial Revolution| justindustrious
Identifying the Problem Customer satisfaction is at an all-time low, with the Forrester 2024 US Customer Experience Index revealing that only 3% of companies are customer-obsessed. But this decline in CX quality is not surprising when 80% of stakeholders' energy is spent on non-essential administrative tasks, leaving| justindustrious
Every business person knows the drill. You receive a bunch of crappy inputs from suppliers. It’s frustrating, but it doesn’t have to be a dead end. With the right systems, processes, and people, you can transform those lousy inputs into high-value outputs. In fact, this is| justindustrious
At the exact same time we're seeing an actual, real-life, non-theoretical explosion in AI capabilities, I've become much less worried about the prospect of a silicon god converting the universe into paperclips. My p(doom), as the kids say, has dropped off a cliff. The idea behind this post is to lay out these underrated arguments in one convenient place, and document exactly why I changed my mind.| Deep Dish
At the end of the presentation on Horizon EDA at FOSDEM this year, I mentioned that there’s going to be a release soon. Soon is now!| Horizon EDA Blog
Building on two articles by Holden Karnoffsky, I argue that utopian fiction fails because it's trying to depict something impossible. Read more (5 min, 1700 words).| Everything Studies
The Devils is out in the UK in but one short week and my author copies have arrived. Isn’t it beautiful? Cover art by Will Staehle and internal illustrations by Joel Daniel Phillips including some stunning altarpiece style endpapers which I feel really class up the joint… It’ll release on e-book and audio read by Steven […] The post Progress Report April ’25 appeared first on Joe Abercrombie.| Joe Abercrombie
It seems like the common thread that binds together these different cultures is a commitment to finding win-wins through the use of science and technology to build new products and services that give people a new way to communicate.| Broken Symmetry
How vigorous competition among public political parties and private for-profit companies has promoted progress by balancing the personal interests of new entrants and incumbent elites| Broken Symmetry
GALVmed collaborates with partners to transform the lives of small-scale producers across Africa and South Asia through improved animal health.| GALVmed
Spring is on its way as I'm sharing the March 2025 Calendar along with a thought about progress which is the word of the month. Spring is a nice surprise af| inkhappi
On 11st of February 2025, Nathan Bossart committed patch:| select * from depesz;
Happy Birthday to me, happy birthday to me, happy birthday dear me-eee, and bloody hell but I am 50 years old today, my friends. 5 decades. Half a century. Where did it all go? I still feel young and exciting, but I must now accept that it’s eighteen years since The Blade Itself was published. […]| Joe Abercrombie
There’s a funny bit of split thinking that I often run into, and which came up in a recent CPO coaching discussion. It’s when we confuse delivering a new (or re-architected) platform and pushing the very last customer off the old version to free up| Rich Mironov's Product Bytes
Today (November 8th, 2024) Refused released a new version of their groundbreaking “The Shape of Punk to Come” Album based on cover versions of the original tracks. I really enjoy cover versions of tracks I already love because they show a different perspective on a piece of art, a different reading. And – mostly because […]| Smashing Frames
Many people claim that evolution has a direction toward increased complexity—and that humans represent its apex. Our destiny, they declare, is to break out of our earthly limitations and explore th…| Patterns of Meaning
I was standing on the DNA of my ancestors.| Jacquette M. Timmons
What makes humans special? How is it that we are able to unleash the energy of the atom, transmute handfuls of sand into powerful djinn, and generally manipulate matter in any way not strictly forbidden by the laws of physics, while our hominid ancestors gather dust in the natural history museum? What tectonic forces have torn such a chasm between us and our surviving cousins, still banging rocks together in the animal kingdom? For most of history this was no great mystery: only humans have a...| Deep Dish
Our technological advancement has continued to the point where it is possible for a small number of people — or even a single person — can cause great harm. Our emotional and moral growth, however, has not kept apace of this and as a result, there are people crying out for a halt to technological … Continue reading "Where’s the Real Chain?"| Welcome to the Petting Zoo
Welcome back! As you may have realized, Horizon EDA has seen less development activity in the last year than it did before. This is mostly due to me having started developing another CAD software - Dune 3D a parametric 3D CAD. Go check it out on dune3d.org. It greatly benefited from the experience I gained from developing Horizon EDA and reuses many concepts both in implementation and user interface. If you like Horizon EDA, I’m sure you’ll like Dune 3D as well! Compared to Horizon EDA u...| Horizon EDA Blog
Project pools A little more than half a year into the public existence of Horizon EDA people noted that it’s far from optimal that that projects require all used items to be present in the pool. Apart from complicating sharing projects this meant that an updated item in the pool would automatically propagate into the project without any way to review the changes. To fix this, I introduced the pool cache that keeps a copy of pool items used in projects. Even though it stood the test of time ...| Horizon EDA Blog
Revolution has been the slogan and banner for generations of creative idealists. But they seem more concerned with a love of transgression than of life.| The Foundation for the Future of Classical Music
Modernity consists of perversions of notions drawn from Christianity; to be a modern means to be deeply enmeshed in them.| The Foundation for the Future of Classical Music
One of the delusions of modern times is that we need a nerd clerisy to help us run things. We’re presently at the end of the post-WW-2 order (or the post-broadcasting order), sort of nervousl…| Locklin on science
January 2019: In his 214th consecutive and final ‘Skeptic’ column for Scientific American, Michael Shermer reflects on what science brings to the human project.| Michael Shermer
I’ve removed the “beta” from the Fall 2023 edition of forall x: Calgary. It is now available in paperback on Amazon (US | CA | UK | DE | AU).| Open Logic Project
I’ve put up the (beta) version of forall x: Calgary. I’ll hold off on putting it on Amazon for a bit to see if there are any problems. Here’s a list of changes: Fully accessible H…| Open Logic Project
In preparation for the Fall 2021 edition of Sets, Logic, Computation, the material in the Open Logic Project has seen a number of recent changes and additions. Here’s a rundown. I’d be …| Open Logic Project
ICYMI, forall x: Calgary has been translated into German and Portuguese! forall x: Dortmund by Simon Wimmer is the German version (PDF) and para todxs: Natal by Daniel Durante et al is the Portugue…| Open Logic Project
We have four new chapters in the OLP. They contain draft material on many-valued logics. The Introduction explains their syntax and semantics in general terms. A chapter on three-valued logics disc…| Open Logic Project
I’m happy to report that forall x: Calgary is now available in an HTML version for reading online. It turned out that LaTeXML has come a long way and basically produced good results without t…| Open Logic Project
This piece was originally published in 2015. It has been updated with new data and advice for 2023. [Image Source] Here’s how the story usually goes. Sometime in the early 20th century, British explorer Ernest Shackleton needed to hire a crew for an upcoming expedition to the South Pole. So…| I DONE THIS
Are you struggling to achieve your potential? You may need a transformation. Here are some amazing lessons learned from one of the fastest modern transformations| Shivamber
It's been a while since our last post (4 years!) but we're finally back with another progress report. The past few years have been an exciting time for Darling with lots of changes happening in the lower levels, numerous bugs getting fixed, and many stubs being added. All these changes have been made with one goal in mind: a better experience for users. We have plans for further improvements, which we hope will make easier to use Darling and improve compatibility.| blog.darlinghq.org
Blind and buried vias| Horizon EDA Blog
Curved tracks| Horizon EDA Blog
