It was disheartening reading through the list of "software tech" people replied to @Jonathan_Blow claiming they were invented "after the 90s". Almost all of them weren't. People saying things like PAXOS (1988 thru 1998) and race detectors (multiple in the 1990s), etc.
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Well, then do it! People will be very happy to hear the truth)
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Because I have so much free time right now?
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Everyone's too busy running on The Hamster Wheel™ (of new tech) to really learn what has come before.
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I imagine all these kids think "deep learning" was invented 6 years ago.
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Everybody knows deep learning was invented by Jürgen Schmidhuber back in the 70s
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Sometimes it's waiting for patents to expire. Fountain codes are particularly gross; the first patents have finally started expiring, but there's a stack of improvements you'd want staggered years later, so e.g. RaptorQ is covered until 2030.
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I like when people claim that Program Synthesis or Machine Learning is a new thing. The recent developments are not about inventing core ideas but rather combining them, like Program Synthesis with Machine Learning for interesting results.
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This is made possible by the recent improvements in hardware; if people in the 90s had super powerful hardware, they would be doing these things as well.
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