Texas’ Regulatory Landscape | Mercatus Center - ”Texas is the 5th most regulated state in the US” // I wouldn’t have expected top 5!
Revisiting the clouds - “Fast forward to today, and the PaaS market has been significantly reshaped, largely by the rise of Kubernetes and other technologies. The landscape is very different. Apparently, somewhere along the line we lost the ease of deployment that platforms like Heroku and Cloud Foundry were well known for … progress” // Indeed…
Learning to Reason for Long-Form Story Generation - I can’t read Math-Greek, so don’t really know what’s going on here. But it looks helpful for playing D&D with the robot.
Why is AI not in your productivity statistics? - I like one of the ideas here: when AI makes things better, and those things don’t obviously increase sales/profit (“growth”) or save money, it’s easy to think it has no ROI. Increasing quality of life with productivity is hard to capture in GDP, so to speak.
news that stays news - What’s old to you is completely new to younger people, no matter how old the text is: “One of the things that’s great about being the kind of teacher I am is that you spend your life introducing new people to old things: when my students fall in love with Bonhoeffer or Simone Weil or John Donne or Pascal — things that happened this very term — it’s all new to them.” // Or: every second someone new is born who’s never watched The Flintstones.
Why Gen X is the real loser generation - I was there for the design meetings. Works as designed. I mean, we had a whole song called “Loser."
A CEO of AI Applications Marks a New Era of AI Competition - Digging the moats: “Like airplane reward programs, personalization & memory introduce switching costs that may outweigh the benefits of state-of-the-art models."
Thanks to DOGE, Gumroad’s founder has a second job with the VA - Fast Company - It’s always too many meetings: ‘But when it comes down to it, what he’s found is a machine that largely functions, though it doesn’t make decisions as fast as a startup might. I would say the culture shock is mostly a lot of meetings, not a lot of decisions,” he says. “But honestly, it’s kind of fine—because the government works. It’s not as inefficient as I was expecting, to be honest. I was hoping for more easy wins.”'