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Don’t wanna say told ‘ya, but told ‘ya
The City has a way of repeating its own history, usually while insisting this time is different because the underlying mathematics are silicon rather than subprime. We are currently watching that cycle play out in San Francisco with a predictability that would be amusing if the sums involved weren’t so gargantuan. The latest dispatches from Continue reading
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HAL is not for profit
Silicon Valley is selling artificial intelligence as an economy-wide cure-all. Strip away the theatrics and you find a familiar cycle: when genuine breakthroughs slow, the marketing gets louder. The last half-century’s growth rode semiconductors and microelectronics; that engine is sputtering. We hit the power wall when Dennard scaling broke down in the mid-2000s, ending the Continue reading
