not all of this has seeped out of tech and probably some of it never will but like home depot employs data scientists a lot of them
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one way to look at it 2010 vs 2019 employee counts for AMZN: 35k --> 800k FB: 3.5k --> 45k GOOG: 24k --> 120k APPL: 49k --> 147k this is actually boring to put together on mobile but imagine a lot more figures like this
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but more importantly new industrial practices, extremely effective ones, are still concentrated at the largest firms the information industrial revolution is not nearly concluded where it began, and yet existing practices have not been widely adopted elsewhere night is young
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im expected changes to ways of living as substantial as those of the first and second industrial revolutions, not because of any given piece of gimmicky tech but by the cumulative effect of how businesses operate, what skills are valuable (or not), and what we are able to build
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I don't know if this is fake news but all the news articles my phone is showing me lately have been blowing my mind. fusion reactors maybe being the top of the list. just a few years ago everything *I* read was saying "probably not ever."
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*future reactors possibly in the near future, not yet.
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It’s easy to dunk on ML/AI now because it’s so squishy. A system I... was involved with on would just do simple things like power down wireless access points, phones, lights etc based on huge datasets of typical behavior. That’s not nothing.
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I’m not sure how you can say AI hasn’t progressed in the 2010s or that it hasn’t found its applications (how bout the whole adtech industry for one)
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