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Lots of seemingly illogical behavior starts to make sense when you consider Nvidia, the company, as the principal deity in a religion practiced by the ruling / elite / stock-owning class. You'll probably recall a couple years ago, when every app you use inserted an "AI" chat feature. Nobody was asking for it, hardly anyone found it useful. In most cases, it was obtrusive, easy to trigger by…
Today is Juneteenth in the United States. It's a complicated holiday–Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation (which declared enslaved people free) on January 1, 1863, but that's not the date we celebrate. The 13th amendment to the constitution (which almost somewhat criminalized slavery) was ratified on December 6, 1865, but that's not the date we celebrate. June 19th, 1863 was the date the…
When I first started consulting, I followed the advice of a very smart guy who encouraged people in my position to blog (or publish a newsletter, or similar) every day for at least 90 days. The assumption was that you'd hone your ability to talk about your area of expertise in the first month or so as you burned through all the easy "how-to" and "didja-know?" topics in the field. And then you'd…