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Jake Handy: An NBER study of nearly 6,000 CEOs and CFOs across the US, UK, Germany, and Australia found that roughly 90% of firms reported zero measurable impact on productivity or employment from AI over the past three years. The...
When the world is seemingly at it's worst, we should all do what we can to spread hope
tire filtering sucks
1. Oil prices surge, and stocks make new highs nevertheless. It looks like I was right (so far) on all counts: (a) The strait remaining in some Schrodinger-like state of being blockaded or opened, possibly until 2028, as I wrote here. At...
too basic even for BASIC
Thoughts on progress.
Three soaring above at 7pm today, 30th April—much earlier than usual. Previously: 2025, 9th May (but I’d been away for the preceding week); 2024, 7th; 2023, 7th; 2022, 11th; 2021, 16th; 2020, 5th; 2019, 9th; 2018, 7th; 2017, 11th. Reply...
I picked up a boxed Timex Sinclair 2068 that wouldn’t boot. An oscilloscope, a BackBit tester, and a fresh Z80 later, it was running. Then I ported Charles Bond’s 1981 maze algorithm from the C64 to Sinclair BASIC.
Ala Southiick draws what she sees, where she sees it. The Serbian illustrator and environmental artist works in plein-air: sketchbook open, pen moving, catching stre...
Over 200 people Tuesday evening attended a virtual ceremony over Zoom for the third annual Stillwater Awards. I was able to tune in with my dad, thanks to my prison’s video-visit technology. (Pops pulled up the ceremony on a second...
What do you do if you’re a wild hunter-gatherer type who abhors sedentary living, dense development, abstruse legal codes and advanced technology, hemmed in by a city that’s grown to fill all the space available to it, including the...
Design is fundamentally about understanding a problem's context and constraints, not simply creating visual output.