nylonstrung
Joined 10 years ago
Joined 10 years ago
On the note of libghostty it does get me very excited about the new multiplexer thing Hashimoto is building with it
It has WASM support via Pyodide so people can use the notebooks without a python server or toolchain
It similarly offers the combo of SQL and dataframes, built in dataviz and UI widgets, great LLM integration and essentially everything else one would want from either a notebook or a BI tool
Robert Gordon pointed out that the 90s productivity gains attributable to IT where overwhelmingly attributable to the manufacturing of computer hardware itself and secondarily the computerization of retail logistics
Daron Acemoglu's prediction is that Total Factor Productivity gains from AI will be a <0.55% increase over the next 10 years
https://web.archive.org/web/20230405154054/https://www.nytim... https://web.archive.org/web/20230405154056/https://www.nytim...
Embedded and industrial computing however have had a profound impact
I see tons of devs fretting about how only Opus is "smart" enough for the React CRUD web app they are building even though Sonnet and Chinese models are demonstrably equivalent for most real world developer use cases
"What a country needs to develop is discipline more than democracy" - Lee Kwan Yue
Many French would have you believe women wearing Hijab should be banned lest it destroy their "western culture" when even the most Islamophobic Americans don't care
A 5% Muslim population in UK is supposedly threatening to send them back to the dark ages when Singapore is at 15% with codified multicultural guarantees and somehow annihilates them in every measure of modernity and development