@mathemetica Symbolic equations would still be a few decades out, so how Kepler really expressed it was in prose, specifically scholarly Latin: "Quadrata periodorum sunt inter se sicut cubi distantiarum"
@robertgraham The Internet of 1990 no longer exists thanks to ipv4 addresses running out. In those days, any random office worker could set up a publicly available FTP website, Gopher server (1991), UseNet news node, etc. right on their own computer. 1990 Internet was peer-to-peer.
@Fahadnaimb "No procedural tweak could've changed this outcome" is overstated. While the pilots may have performed flawlessly, it is possible -- as in so many past airline disasters -- that a growing crack was missed by periodic non-destructive testing of the turbine fans.
@IntuitMachine We heard the "disintermediation" mantra during dot‑com. Uber shows we often got new intermediaries instead. Firms won’t disappear: AI agents reduce search/contracting, but trust remains a transaction cost that will keep governance structures in place.
@IntuitMachine This is just the age-old conflict between book learning and apprenticeship. For whatever reason, people have never been able to effectively communicate learned experience through books. (It is of course why we say that a fresh college graduate is "green".)
@rohanpaul_ai IMO, the title "AlphaGo Moment" is way overstated for what they actually showed, which was a system finding a solution in a narrow well-defined problem space.
@Random832@lauriewired It was floppy based software that stored into the CMOS, and it was plain text UI rather than text graphics menus as shown in the photo