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British open-standards and open-source technologist, formerly of the UK Government Digital Service and the W3C Advisory Committee. Blogs at shkspr.mobi, where he posts a book review most weeks.

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  Evan Prodromou has the unenviable task of making the whole ecosystem easy to understand. Thankfully he does that well. Things are logically laid out, there are comprehensive descriptions of even the most obscure parts of the spec, and it builds up nicely from the fundamentals.

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Climate journalist; founded HEATED in 2019 after reporting on climate at The New Republic and ThinkProgress.

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  How much worse the climate crisis becomes depends on how many people publicly demand systemic change now.

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  However worse the climate crisis gets now depends on how quickly society transforms. How quickly society transforms depends on how many people demand it.

  “What can I do?” The answer is still anything.heated.world

Programmer; makes Handmade Hero and teaches Performance-Aware Programming, and argues loudly about how software got slow.

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  How data is laid out and how it is accessed are architectural decisions with nothing to do with hot spots, and the difference between two layouts can be enormous.

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  when you're working with a lot of data, the the difference can be massive if you structure it in one way versus structuring another way, right? Again, architectural decisions that have nothing to do with hotspots, they're how all the data is laid out and what the access pattern is, right?

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Scientist and writer on quantum computing, memory systems and metascience; co-wrote the standard quantum computation textbook and wrote Reinventing Discovery.

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  A theory of everything would not finish physics: Turing and Church laid down computation's theory of everything in the 1930s and we have spent ninety years exploring the consequences.

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  People will sometimes talk about um you know, a theory of everything as a potential goal for for physics. And and then there's this presumption somehow that physics is done once you get there. And of course, this is this is not true at all if you think about computer science.

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Programmer and essayist who has worked at Amazon, Google, Grab and Sourcegraph. Best known for the long-form essays collected as Stevey's Drunken Blog Rants and Stevey's Blog Rants.

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  The engineers laid off in AI's name will mostly not find jobs again, they are the first of many, and nobody has a plan for them.

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  I'm mad at Amazon for laying off 16,000 people and blaming AI without an AI strategy for it. Those people are not going to be able to find jobs, by and large, and they're the first of many to come and nobody has a plan for this.

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Writer on learning and skill acquisition; author of Ultralearning and Get Better at Anything, known for the MIT Challenge and the Year Without English.

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  AI translation will stop you learning to speak a language, exactly as AI summaries stop you understanding a book.

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  Similarly, AI translation will prevent you from learning to speak another language, AI summaries will block you from really understanding the arguments laid out in a book, and AI analyses of your personal problems will make it harder for you to think through solutions to your own problems.

  Will AI Make Us Stupid?scotthyoung.com

Development economist; writes Global Developments, on growth, history and the numbers behind them.

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  Aid transforms a country only where a capable state with a development plan is already there to spend it.

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  All this to say: capable states with ambitious developmental plans, when hit with a bazooka of money, can seize the opportunity to transform themselves.

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Semiconductor analyst; writes Fabricated Knowledge on the chip industry and the companies in it.

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  Cheaper AI will be used more in the long run and still strand the hardware built for it in the short run, exactly as unlit fibre did after 2001.

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  And so, while the Jevons paradox case was 100% correct in the long run, 97% of the fiber laid in 2001 was unlit.

  DeepSeek: Is this Jevon's Cope?fabricatedknowledge.com

Designer, architect and scientist, who led the Mediated Matter group at MIT and founded OXMAN, a company that builds products in collaboration with living organisms.

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  Living systems can be laid out on two axes, material sophistication and communication, and an organism that excels on one is usually poor on the other.

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  So if you think about entire all of nature, let's say all of living systems as a matrix that runs across two axes one is material sophistication, which is terribly relevant for designers, and the other is communication. The termites ace on communication, but their material sophistication is crap.

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Writer and researcher on China, technology and industry; author of Breakneck, research fellow at Stanford, known for a widely read annual letter.

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  Doing the science first does not win the industry: America laid the scientific groundwork for solar and Chinese firms ended up making the cells.

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  Consider the solar industry, for which the US laid the scientific groundwork, only for Chinese firms to make all the photovoltaic cells.

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CEO of Vercel; creator of Next.js and Socket.IO. Writes at rauchg.com.

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  The designer and programmer roles are converging, and the path from sketch to design to implementation is opening up to everyone with an idea.

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  And if I’m allowed to extrapolate, a clear path is now laid out towards a future where the steps to go from sketch to design to implementation are greatly more accessible to everyone with an idea.

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