IBM 305 RAMAC and the 1960 Winter Olympics(pncnmnp.github.io)

92 points by pncnmnp 2 years ago | 15 comments

Before Xerox, there was Addressograph(pncnmnp.github.io)

33 points by pncnmnp 3 years ago | 12 comments

Scrambling eggs for Spotify with Knuth's Fibonacci hashing(pncnmnp.github.io)

127 points by pncnmnp 2 years ago | 41 comments

Dijkstra's interview on Dutch TV (2000)(pncnmnp.github.io)

121 points by pncnmnp 2 years ago | 65 comments

Dempster-shafer and reasoning about sets(emiruz.com)

14 points by usgroup 11 months ago | 5 comments

Optimism vs. Pessimism in Distributed Systems(brooker.co.za)

66 points by surprisetalk 2 years ago | 10 comments

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.

Computers Cannot Make Decisions(wiki.cateat.fish)

175 points by heavensteeth 16 days ago | 148 comments

A personal wiki essay arguing that blaming LLMs for harmful outcomes is decision laundering and that AI companies like OpenAI and Anthropic bear responsibility.

Why America's economy is soaring ahead of its rivals(ft.com)

447 points by kvee 1 year ago | 2007 comments

Financial Times article examining why the US economy is outperforming other major economies, shown behind a subscription paywall.

Deep learning gets the glory, deep fact checking gets ignored(rachel.fast.ai)

549 points by chmaynard 1 year ago | 134 comments

Rachel Thomas blog post on how a high-profile Nature paper using a Transformer to predict enzyme functions contained many errors that received far less attention than the original result.

How elites could shape mass preferences as AI reduces persuasion costs(arxiv.org)

662 points by 50kIters 10 months ago | 619 comments

arXiv economics paper modeling how elites could use cheap AI-driven persuasion to reshape public preferences, tending to push society toward polarization.

Microsoft-Decision-1, our model for fast decision-making(commandline.microsoft.com)

162 points by lisajaloza 17 days ago | 56 comments

Microsoft Command Line blog post announcing Microsoft-Decision-1, a model built for fast decision-making and available through Foundry.