Newmark's Door

As a percentage of workers, the two top metro areas in the country for remote work are Austin and Raleigh.

"This graph covers a 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000x improvement in computation/$. Pause to let that sink in." (Data spans 1900 to projected 2025.)

"That AI companies might not be quite the imminent threat to search that Google initially imagined would be a relief for the company if it didn’t have deeper, older problems."

Paul Graham:

I'm usually reluctant to make predictions about technology, but I feel fairly confident about this one: in a couple decades there won't be many people who can write.

At the top of the list is a suburb of my very own Raleigh, Cary, NC. (Click on the graphic to enlarge it.)

Expressing a view I've not seen much, Sabine Hossenfelder says AI currently is just "Meh."

Possibly an exaggeration, but I didn't notice this reported in the mainstream media.

The crisis du jour.

Generative AI as a technology exists in this lineage. That it can create adequate texts and images is an astonishing leap forward in machine learning, but the texts and images are still only adequate, “good enough” and cheap enough for people to thumb past on their phones. Slop is the most appropriate word for what it produces because, as disgusting and unappetizing as it may seem, we still eat it. It’s what’s right there in the trough.

"A visit to a Japanese onshore wind farm".

The immediate cause was the CrowdStrike's software had access to the Windows kernel. (Which was why Apple and Linux were unaffected--they deny kernel access to 3rd party software.)

But why did CrowdStrike's software have access to the kernel? Guess. Go ahead, guess. (The answer is in the last couple of paragraphs to this piece beginning with "Ben Thompson writes".