I'm fairly heavily involved with this, and it is not correct to say the industry is leaning heavy into AI. There are a few startups that are trying to sell their AI tools, but everything I've seen so far has been kind of a joke. For example, they claim to be able to write a 2000 page safety analysis report, but in reality, they might be able to write a couple of 100 pages, but it is very general and not specific to the actual application. Maybe in a couple of years we'll have AI writing all of the safety analysis reports and the NRC will have AI do all the reviewing. What can go wrong?

Are you referring to the non-imperial China that took over Hong Kong and Nepal, and is actively trying to take parts of India and Taiwan? Or maybe you are referring to the China that is pretty much putting many third world countries in servitude by loaning them massive amounts of money for infrastructure that can never be repaid?

Wow, I'm in the wrong business. Buy 200 mini-macs for less than $200k and charge $2.4 million for 3 years? This would be about $4 million for a 5-year hardware lifetime. I realize there are additional costs, such as power and network costs, but they said they are "saving" this much money, so doesn't enter the cost. I'm also wondering why developers would be using mini-macs in the clouds and not a desktop? You can have Mac desktop development, but still use Linux machines for things like git, email, storage, etc.

Most academics are judged by the number of papers they produce, not whether they are good or not. Do you think a dean (or anybody else) has time to go through 50+ papers and decide how good they are? People either produce crappy papers or papers fill up with co-authors who didn't contribute anything. A better metric is how many citations a paper gets. However, there are ways around this by joining a large group that references group papers, even if they aren't relevant. Its a better metric, but not perfect. Just another example of Goodhart's Law, where once you introduce a measure, people will find a way to manipulate it.

If teaching were perfect AND students put in the correct effort. Perfect teaching won't work if students put minimal effort in.

I've been using Citrix for years. I can't stand it, but it is what corporate wants.

"People who say it can't be done should stand out of the way of the people who are doing it" Yes, there are challenges, but it is just a matter of time.

There are two kinds of countries. One kind uses metric and the other kind has put men on the moon.

How is this fusion? You are taking a large isotope (boron) and splitting it into alpha particles. This sounds more like radioactive decay, or fission, than fusion. In addition, the amount of energy released per reaction is fairly small (8.7 MeV per Wikipedia article) and you need to power the lasers, so how far from break even are they? (the article conveniently leaves this out)

Who doesn't like a good D&D adventure? Adventure Zone https://maximumfun.org/episode...

"fewer than a dozen students who pay the full price"

There are now fewer than a dozen students who are feeling pretty stupid right now...

Moore wasn't the first person to recognize this, only the most famous. See for example: http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&chrome=true&srcid=1PX1HUsIBhnOSOsxcM2HoJZHv-9rtnNPOu-CA--584-UA4GLXxhWz842JmRDy&hl=en which describes Selengut's results from 1959. Selengut predicted computer speeds would double in magnitude every 10 years.

One of the problems with e-mail is that employees can have casual conversations about something that can later be taken out of context. For example, two engineers talk about a procedure that is really stupid and doesn't mean anything. Five years later, lawyers perform a "discovery" and find "evidence" that engineers didn't take procedures seriously. Now they can sue. The problem with saving some of your e-mail is that the lawyers can claim that you deleted incriminating e-mail and only saved e-mail that proved your side of the story. The answer to that is have a consistent policy where all e-mail is deleted after some time. 180 days seems awfully short, 1 year seems more appropriate, but I guess it depends on what kind of business you are in.