I examine George Gilder's assertion that bandwidth is replacing processing power as the primary driver of IT innovation. This shift from Moore's Law to Gilder's Law mirrors the industry's broader transition from software to online services.
George Gilder proposes that while Moore’s law drove the IT revolution through processing power, today it’s bandwidth that’s driving it – through Gilder’s Law. This ties back to what an Economist survey says about focus shifting from software to online services.
I examine The Economist's perspective on the shift from hardware and software toward online services, suggesting that IT infrastructure is commoditizing while web-based services become the primary driver of value and profitability.
I examine how supercomputing is outpacing Moore's Law, noting that computational power is doubling every 15 months rather than the expected 18, marking a faster trajectory for high-end hardware performance.
I share Malcolm Gladwell’s analysis of how homelessness follows a power law distribution. It highlights how focusing resources on a small percentage of chronically homeless individuals can be more effective and cheaper than traditional broad-based social services.
I shared a link to the Law of the Playground, a site documenting the nostalgic and often brutal folklore of schoolyard games, slang, and social rules that defined our collective childhood experiences.
Claude's leak of its own internal tags is a vivid example of how current LLMs resolve conflicting instructions by improvising, confessing, or contradicting themselves instead of freezing.