Many African families spend fortunes burying their dead(davidoks.blog)

194 points by powera 6 months ago | 179 comments

Why airlines are always going bankrupt(davidoks.blog)

41 points by bko 5 months ago | 28 comments

Mark Zuckerberg explains why so many tech companies are doing layoffs(businessinsider.com)

26 points by Octabrain 2 years ago | 12 comments

Why jet engines aren't made in China(aakash.substack.com)

235 points by paulpauper 3 months ago | 215 comments

ATMs didn’t kill bank teller jobs, but the iPhone did(davidoks.blog)

502 points by colinprince 7 months ago | 527 comments

Substack essay by David Oks arguing that ATMs did not eliminate bank teller jobs but smartphone mobile banking did, exploring how automation replaces labor.

ASML's Best Selling Product Isn't What You Think It Is(siliconimist.com)

86 points by johncole 5 months ago | 30 comments

Doing a Machine Learning PhD While Working in Japan(tokyodev.com)

126 points by pwim 26 days ago | 41 comments

A TokyoDev article by Marco Cognetta on completing a computer science PhD at Tokyo Institute of Technology on a MEXT scholarship while working at Google.

Japan's push to make all research open access(nature.com)

612 points by sohkamyung 2 years ago | 92 comments

Nature news article on Japan allocating 10 billion yen to institutional repositories to make the nation's publicly funded research free to read.

When everyone has AI and the company still learns nothing(robert-glaser.de)

355 points by youngbrioche 5 months ago | 234 comments

Robert Glaser's blog essay on why companies fail to turn individual AI tool use into organizational learning and team capabilities.

Artificial intelligence is losing hype(economist.com)

453 points by bx376 2 years ago | 663 comments

An Economist Free exchange column arguing that artificial intelligence is losing hype and asking whether that signals the technology will eventually succeed.

AI has access to a vastly larger working memory than the human brain(davidepiffer.com)

524 points by rzk 2 months ago | 452 comments

A Substack essay by Davide Piffer arguing that AI's edge over mathematicians comes from a vast symbolic working memory rather than superior reasoning.

I believe there are entire companies right now under AI psychosis(twitter.com)

2013 points by reasonableklout 5 months ago | 1180 comments

Mitchell Hashimoto's X post arguing some companies are in 'AI psychosis', relying on agents to fix bugs fast (MTTR) at the expense of reliability (MTBF).