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To be fair - most innovation boils down to this kind of incremental stuff. 99% of 'tech' is an amalgamation of more basic ideas, not 'magic leap' kind of innovation.

I mean, we all love the magic, but I think we're getting spoiled as of late with all the magic AI/Deep Learning stuff coming out.

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I agree with your first statement to the point of disagreeing with your second. i.e. even the magic stuff is just incremental progress that people were not paying attention to. (Self driving cars have been wowing people since the 90s, object recognition just got incrementally better every year etc)

Oh certainly, I did not intend to be dismissive of their work.

My goal in a tldr is only to minimize the number of seconds it takes to digest some essential concept.

I wish for every article here someone would write up a 1 sentence tldr and a one paragraph tldr+, to help us track more happenings in our head at once and to help choose the ones we decide to spend our deep reading time on.

But of course your point is valid, shoulders of giants and what have you...

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