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This is the 22nd issue of Shiyue Weekly.
what did you see
☆ The Internet Tidal Wave – Letters of Note – Bill Gates @ 1995
Bill Gates issued a memo within Microsoft in 1995, sharing his views on the Internet, as well as the competitive environment at that time and Microsoft’s Next Step. Many of the judgments in the article are very accurate when I look back today. For example, he judged that the Internet will grow rapidly, which will require more PC equipment, which is a good thing for Windows.
Another point: A lot of things that are now on the Internet already existed back then, such as affiliate promotion links, video conferencing, online video, and so on.
☆ Google internal documents leaked: Neither we nor OpenAI can win, open source is the winner!
Google’s internal discussion paper on artificial intelligence leaked.
The part that resonates with me is that collaborating with the open source community may allow a model to improve faster. But what I want to say is that users will go to whose model is the best. The winning strategy is to make your model iterate faster, better and more durable in quality, and open source does not always win in this regard.
So I think there’s a revelation: open source will win in areas where the users are usually software developers, because they can make improvements to the products they use. And closed source will win in other areas.
This angle is quite instructive, why server software is very successful in the open source field, because the users of server software are developers.
☆ How Technology Giants Die – Napkin Math – Every
This article belongs to the reading notes of “General Electric’s Failure: The Rise and Fall of an American Icon (POWER FAILURE: The Rise and Fall of an American Icon)”. The Chinese version of this book was not found.
It mentioned the recent Twitter layoffs:
Over the next few years, I expect the pressure on tech giants to slim down and get in shape will only increase. If Twitter can cut its workforce by 70%, Google and Facebook can cut their workforce in half. Potential Recession There is a way to reduce excess in an organization.
When coordination costs outweigh scale efficiencies, firms start dying.
As far as the business in a large company is concerned, a considerable part of the manpower is redundant. But the reality is that everything is ROI-oriented, so is it reasonable?
☆ The news industry will stop saying overdue UX fixes are too hard » Nieman Journalism Lab
Introduced a phenomenon: when we click on a link on social media, it is likely to be followed by a paywall and cannot be viewed, which is a waste of time for users who do not subscribe. Even if you subscribe, you may not be able to read the webpage when the current device is not logged in, or the software opens the webpage in inapp mode. This kind of experience is very poor, but few people try to solve it.
A very good Anki tutorial. Based on learning scenarios such as reading papers and topic reading, the article introduces Anki’s usage skills (not operational skills, but some conceptual skills), and also analyzes how this method works from a higher level. effect.
A rebuttal to Paul Graham’s famous ” How People Get Rich Now ” article.
What he (Paul Graham) failed to mention is that people’s concern about wealth inequality is not how wealth is created, but the growing gap between rich and poor in recent decades. Technology has made starting a business cheaper and easier, but only for a small percentage of the population. When a small number of people have an advantage that others don’t, that advantage is magnified over time.
☆ Prepare a path for yourself and for others – Wang Xuan’s Blog@2020年
The release date of this article is the first half of 2020, when public opinion on the epidemic just started. The author talked about some current Internet survival rules.
☆ How far can a person waste? | Guyu
An extreme case worth observing.
Li Shu, 29, didn’t want to work or rent a house. After spending four years in a rental house and exhausting all his savings, he moved out and made his home in an orange tent in an abandoned parking lot.
Some are strong, some are brave, but Li Shu feels that he is weak, without much talent and talent, nor strong willpower to fight against the world and himself, so he simply gave up. He voluntarily chose to live a life of poverty, homelessness but no pressure, and lived a life that was considered waste by most people in a calm and serious manner.
I saw a lot of history-related information in the feed, but I didn’t really want to click on it. There were too many arguments, and it was tiring to read, and I often stood in line in the end. This article was produced by Crooked Brain, so I looked at it, and it was not bad.
I have also always felt that it is impossible for men and women to truly understand each other’s feelings about the social situation. I am not denying the possibility of rational discussion, but “rational discussion” and “empathy” are two different things.
Minimalism
☆ Kong Yiji, Ah Q, Mrs. Xianglin, Xiangzi Luotuo, these literary works were originally their assets to overthrow the evil old society, but now they have all become their liabilities! – by Coke @ Zhihu
☆ Nearly half of YouTube viewing comes from TV, and the TV scene in the living room still exists, but the content has shifted from traditional TV stations to online media on demand. — by The Information
☆ Anger makes people stupid, and stupid people die. — A line from “Golden Eyes”
resource tool
☆ Presentations — Benedict Evans
Every year, Benedict Evans will write a summary ppt of the technology industry. The 2023 one has just come out and has a lot of data and charts, which is a good reference material.
Li Wenliang’s microblog is called the Wailing Wall of China, and many people leave messages every day.
☆ nkanaev/yarr: yet another rss reader
A minimalist self-host rss reader, developed based on Go, using sqlite3 for data storage.
blog update
Stars will die if you don’t toss: single-page Memos integrated Artalk comments, infinitely close to Weibo
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