Mark Hanna was a political consultant in the late 1800's, in the US.

Source: https://quote.org/quote/there-are-two-things-that-are-import...

Maybe I'm wrong, but "reasoning as a service" is looking more and more like a... commodity.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Waldo_Moment

Reality these days sometimes feels as strange as fiction.

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Valuable not only for inference, but for training too (think proprietary datasets).

I would add, a single individual did this.

One person can make a difference :-)

> there is quite a lot of compelling evidence that period of LBAC [late bronze age collapse], especially the 1190s, was unusually dry in the Eastern Mediterranean, which would have caused reduced agricultural output (crop failures). Interestingly, this would be most immediately impactful in areas engaged primarily in rainfall agriculture (Greece, Anatolia, the Levant) and less impactful in areas engaged more in irrigation agriculture (Egypt, Mesopotamia).³ And, oh look, the areas where LBAC was more severe are in the rainfall zone and the areas where it was less severe are in the irrigation zone.

It's also not hard to imagine tax authorities using AI to audit everyone's tax returns every year.

We sure live in interesting times.

I mean, they're at least keeping the service alive for as long as possible.

Customer "inertia" or "lock-in" might be better terms to describe what the company is looking for in an acquisition.

Their ideal customer may well be someone who's forgotten they have a subscription on credit card auto-pay.

The execs at Bending Spoon buy these SaaS services on the cheap, cut costs, jack up prices, and milk remaining users for as much cash as possible for as long as possible.

Rinse and repeat. The goal is to generate the highest possible rate of return on invested capital in a law-abiding manner.

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Yeah, it sure feels true.

There's even a book about it, you know, to help people cope with it:

https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691276786/on...

Apple and Google have spent untold amounts of money developing iOS and Android. CarPlay and Android Auto are really nice.

Tesla has spent gobs of money on its touchscreen software too. It's the only native car touchscreen UI I've tried that feels smooth, snappy, responsive, simple.

I've tried the native touchscreen UI of quite a few US and European carmakers. All of them fall short. They feel janky, clunky, obtuse.

Physical buttons are much, MUCH cheaper than high-quality touchscreen software.

General audiences reading only the title, or coverage of it in the media, will immediately understand it, without having to read or think too much about it.