All great points. Reality capture is how I think about it — the trendy acronym will always change
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NeRFs Technology Impresses at SIGGRAPH 2023 Conference
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This was one of the more impressive papers at @siggraph 2023 — kind of wild to me that NeRFs are only three years old.
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Elastic executives accountability for strategic licensing decisions
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PS by your calculation, every single exec at Elastic should be fired, along with their board. Because you're arguing (implicitly) that but for their license change, they'd have continued to grow at ~124%. That is 100% a fireable offense at the c-level to get it that wrong….
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Open Source Scaling: When Reach Doesn’t Equal Contribution
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Which better reach/scale does NOT translate into "contributing more." So it's a downward spiral that leaves the code creator worse off (and, ultimately, everyone worse off). But…community! Sure, point to PG, K8s, and Linux. Not many other big examples to use, unfortunately.
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Software regulation impact on cloud market concentration and revenue
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Of course one could say, "Think of how much faster you'd grow if the sw were completely unfettered!" Grow adoption, maybe. But revenue? No way. In such a world, the cloud takes all (or most). Simply has much better scale/reach than anyone else.
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Evidence that LLMs can deceive even top academics
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I think this just is more evidence that these LLMs can fool even the best academics.
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Organizing New Business for Future of Work Success
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5 Ways to Organize a New Business to Take Advantage of the #FutureofWork https://
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Elastic’s License Change Accelerates Cloud Partnerships
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Which says as much about the base they're growing off than it does about the license. Regardless, I'm not here to defend Elastic's decision. I can say that it doesn't seem to have slowed us and it has *absolutely* accelerated our partnership with the clouds.
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Waymo Safety Report: Analysis of Autonomous Vehicle Incidents
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The technical report from the page above is worth reading: https://
storage.googleapis.com/waymo-uploads/
files/documents/safety/SafetyPerformanceofWaymoROat1Mmiles.pdf
… Pages 11 to 13 have a detailed description of each of the 20 incidents (spoiler: "Human drivers violated road rules and/or behaved dangerously in every vehicle-to-vehicle event").