It's old but along the same lines; more stories of industry pioneers: Accidental Empires: How the Boys of Silicon Valley Make Their Millions, Battle Foreign Competition, and Still Can't Get a Date (1992, 1996).

Excellent presentation, thank you!

The machinery is ironically beautiful to look at!

How did this compare to its approximate contemporary in the USSR ?

Soviet 70's machines were hand-woven ferrite plate, stacked PCB sandwiches. Not pretty at all.

Was "Stop and Frisk" by the NYPD also in good faith for the decade or more that it took to get it declared unconstitutional?

This stuff was fast on a 486, despite ~3000x lower performance compared to a modern single cpu core.

as lobbyists, you guys are going to lose most of them at modulo and the rest at monotonically

Hey congress people, do you want your time in office to be much more fun and exciting? Vote yes on the Congressional Rollercoaster Act!

The passmark numbers are almost identical to a 12th-gen intel i7-12700K, however the still-modern 12-core intel cpu has to pull about 4x as much power to do it.

I would have thought GS would be wise enough to not bully AI now in its early days just in case it ends up taking over the world.

"Six Degrees of Separation" with Donald Sutherland and Will Smith was the first relatively arthouse movie I saw and it introduced me to the genre.

It's a great little gem, especially since it came out when Will Smith was near the peak of his "pop" persona, while the movie is definitely not.

Thankfully (or not...), the consequences faced by overpromising sales people aren't as severe in the 21st century.

Startups after first round of investment would have severe motivation to succeed!

Customs can certainly approach you any time right up to the gate. In 2010, my wife and I were approached by an agent and asked very directly if we had more than $10,000 in USD cash with us as we waited at the gate to board a nonstop flight from the US to Moscow. We answered truthfully "no" in a brief conversation and he wished us well almost immediately.

I don't think he suspected we were money launderers. My guess is that upon hearing both of us speak, he easily determined that we were not natives of Russia and thus not, for example, carrying but not declaring a substantial amount of cash intended for family back home.