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fun fact: in German, writers are usually paid by character not by word, because the word-length distribution has such a long tail
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open models are still incredibly useful, but fill a long-tail ecosystem relative to the closed counterparts that have monopoly ownership stakes in the most valuable areas like knowledge work collaboration, drug discovery, SWE, etc.
10 August
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that child who learns about what you say kitty cat would not have the chance to download the internet of images of cat. They likely have seen three cats, 10 cats at most, but yet they're able to identify that tail as a cattail instead of a fox tail through a different kind of learning pathway.
3 August
From one piece Waymo Co-CEO Dmitri Dolgov: The Demo Is Only 1% Of The Work 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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At scale the long tail stops being an edge case and becomes the entire problem statement.Their words
And at scale, the long tail is the problem space, is your entire problem statement. When you drive millions of miles per week, a rare event that might happen once in a million miles, that just becomes your daily reality.
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And that's why every hype cycle produces a wave of absolutely spectacular demos and very few real products. And the recurring mistake of every cycle is spending on the demo when you should be saving for the nines.
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HTTPS is now simply how the web works, and the long tail of plain-HTTP sites shrinks every year.Their words
HTTPS is now simply how the web works, and the long tail of plain-HTTP sites is shrinking every year.
7 June
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there's too many people who chase their tail and chase whatever the hottest thing is. When it's already hot, it's already too late to be in it.
29 March
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Problems follow a long tail: AI will keep getting better at the common ones, and the edge cases will never go away.Their words
So, I think of them as the top of the long long tail long tail problem. Like, something very common issues that a lot of people experience. AI will get really good at it. And over time AI will cover more more edge cases, but the edge cases will never go away.
19 March
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In the world of high-stakes digital strategy, the “average user” is a dangerous statistical artifact.
15 November 2025
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There is a feeling that a lot of tail-chasing in industrial improvement is due to interactions not being recognized.
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