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Are there any companies listed on public exchanges doing this kind of work? This will surely change advertising forever.

Can anyone eli5 the breakthrough that this (seemingly bright!) student made? I read the paper earlier but a lot of it went over my head!

Can anyone recommend an affordable temperature/humidity sensor?

$56 of which is breadboard and hook up wire - I'm sure it's possible to have a custom pcb fabbed for about $20,and if you do small runs to have the pcb cost drop to less than $1.

What's stopping a Bash script from doing something similar? You could alias ls to a malicious actor for example.

Perhaps I should have asked for the most obscure :) I wonder how many truly emerging fields still exist within computer science. I feel that resiros [1] may be correct in suggesting applications in other areas of science are most interesting / obscure (in the context of that discipline, at least).

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17696498

Anyone else think this would make a great movie? Or perhaps a Silicon Valley-esque tv-series centered around the Scene would be fantastic.

While interesting, is this really necessary? Call me skeptical, but value add = negligible, justification for an entire department to spend several months+ working = likely.

I can see why companies like Apple and Microsoft would want to be involved in making fonts, they make their bread and butter by creating warm-fuzzies and having a consistent design language; IBM though, less so?

Genuinely interested to hear others thoughts.

Surely 'Nukey McNukeface' is the obvious choice.

Dustin, wow. I can see a lot of work went into your talk. I read along for about 80% and you make some great points. Hyperfiddle looks impressive - I signed up to the dev mailing list.

As an aside, do you think traditionally built apps should be moving away from SQL and towards immutable stores like Datomic?

This is nice! I hadn't heard of this category of services before today. I particularly like the idea of events in goms. Thank you.

Forgive my ignorance, but SSD? Do you mean solid state drives?

Interesting! I was thinking more along the lines of a web application, but it's nice to see an (actively maintained/developed?) somewhat-literal clone of Access.