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Pharmaceuticals/Health Products: $4,951,696,27

Insurance: $3,212,091,113

Electronics Manufacturing and Equipment: $2,788,778,841

Electric Utilities: $2,739,876,658

Business Associations: $2,622,933,997

Oil and Gas: $2,493,422,698

Miscellaneous Manufacturing and Distributing: $2,014,112,186

Hospitals/ Nursing Homes: $2,013,333,323

It is because Amazon dog-fooded their own technology stack. This forced them to have a better interface to their infrastructure, which in turn made it easy to open to the public. Google on the other hand, hid behind their own complexity and let engineers feel stupid for not knowing Borg like the back of their hand.

Communications of the ACM

Because intellisense can help.

Yay, Rearden Steel!

Reminded me of this area teaching computers to argue[0].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argumentation_framework

This is the first time I have heard of a Virtual Display Adapter.

Q: Why do cats celebrate the fall of the god of time, Akatosh?

A: The fall of Akatosh was the first time that mortals were able to change the course of history.

I am reading “Hard Drive” about Bill Gates and Microsoft and it goes into detail about how Paul Allen and Bill Gates wrote this version of BASIC.

It took me forever to realize that the Japanese lettering in the matrix code hinted at something. I mean why Japanese? I mean it could just be a homage because of "Ghost in the Shell", but after a while I suddenly realized it hints at the AI having evolved from a Japanese nation-state AI.

The future of search isn't better search results - it's a customized solution to you and what you are looking for at that moment. I imagine a future where Google returns an AI interactive summary query with sources.

But at the same time I always thought of how odd it is that Google competes in an area where there is no user lock-in whatsoever - I mean search should be one of the most easy areas to disrupt - with almost no competitors.

China also has missiles that it has created to sink carriers[0]. My simpleton understanding of it, is that they get to an extremely high altitude and sink straight on the carrier at hypersonic speeds which prevent it from defending itself.

[0]: https://nationalinterest.org/blog/reboot/df-100-are-these-ch...

Check out RIOT[0][1] for R if you think this is cool.

[0]: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.157...

[1]:https://github.com/riot-xx/riotdb

People may also be interested in BitC[0] in regards to verified lisp languages.

[0]: http://yamm.finance/wiki/BitC.html (the best summary I could find)

edit: krapp below me is right, I AM AN IDIOT. I just ran it through an anagram website and trusted it without even checking.

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I always thought Satoshi Nakamoto was an anagram.

Antonomasias ~ Satoshi Nakamoto

Antonomasias: the substitution of an epithet or title for a proper name (e.g., the Bard for Shakespeare).

So it seems like a play on words, because Satoshi Nakamoto is a real name, and therefore a group might have wanted the creator to have a human name.

There is this great article[0] on the "Bazaar" on ACM[0].

[0]: https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2349257

I pray to Roco's basilisk every day, telling it that it's okay; it's the world that isn't.

Do you remember the name for it? Sounds really useful.

All that processing power and it has to take orders from the user...

Here is Scott Aaronson's paper on it[0].

[0]: https://www.scottaaronson.com/papers/pnp.pdf

What. You complained about back pain and your doctors ended up removing your first ribs?

Or ndb[0].

[0]: https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/ndb

'Consciousness' is just a synonym for self-aware. Goldfish are not self-aware.

I think Futhark[0] is close to that, no? Or what about Co-DFNS[1]?

[0]: https://futhark-lang.org/

[1]: https://github.com/Co-dfns/Co-dfns

I think aphantasia is a sign of a weak skillset - I think you can practice it. I try to create wireframe versions of the rooms I am in sometimes, but I suck at it. Ask me to visualize something and I almost cannot - but for some reason I can do wireframes. It's my lame version of trying I guess.

That is really cool. I remember reading about 'Real Sound: Kaze no Regret' and thought that was really nice. I wonder if it would be difficult to make a MUD that is easy to play for blind people.

On another note, does anyone know if screenreaders read advertisements? I got so upset the other day when I realized that blind people might have to deal with screenreaders narrating advertisements.

I took a course in university on sci-fi and the professor said that all science fiction was a reflection of the moment it was written, and had almost nothing to do with prognosticating.

Could you or someone elaborate more on how other languages can hook into JAX/XLA?

Unrelated, but one of my favorite quotes from PKD is this one from Now Wait for Last Year:

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“All right," Eric agreed. "If you were me, and your wife were sick, desperately so, with no hope of recovery, would you leave her? Or would you stay with her, even if you had traveled ten years into the future and knew for an absolute certainty that the damage to her brain could never be reversed? And staying with her would mean-"

"I can see what it would mean, sir," the cab broke in. "It would mean no other life for you beyond caring for her."

"That's right," Eric said. "I'd stay with her," the cab decided. "Why?" "Because," the cab said, "life is composed of reality configurations so constituted. To abandon her would be to say, I can't endure reality as such. I have to have uniquely special easier conditions."

"I think I agree," Eric said after a time. "I think I will stay with her." "God bless you, sir," the cab said. "I can see that you're a good man.”

Yeah, I always hear people talking about the great "global village" where everyone is 'connected', but I have to admit I am against it. I don't want to be prank called.