There is only a very fine difference between a very good film, and the best films of all time. Perhaps it is something to do on how epic the subject matter is? It is often very hard to tell, and switches between the categories are also possible.
The complex analogue of the special orthogonal group, i.e. the subgroup of the unitary group with determinant equals exactly 1 instead of an arbitrary complex number with absolute value equal 1 as is the case for the unitary group.
Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.
Surfing with the Alien by Joe Satriani (1987) by
Ciro Santilli 35 Updated 2025-04-18 +Created 1970-01-01
An IBM made/pushed term, but that matches Ciro Santilli's general view of how we should move forward AGI.
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman chapter Alfred Nobel's Other Mistake by
Ciro Santilli 35 Updated 2025-04-18 +Created 1970-01-01
Key quote that names the chapter:
My friend Matt Sands was once going to write a book to be called Alfred Nobel's Other Mistake.
Intel supercomputer market share from 1993 to 2020
. Source. This graph is shocking, they just took over the entire market! Some good pre-Intel context at The Supermen: The Story of Seymour Cray by Charles J. Murray (1997), e.g. in those earlier days, custom architectures like Cray's and many others dominated. Steve Jobs customers don't know what they want quote by
Ciro Santilli 35 Updated 2025-04-18 +Created 1970-01-01
TODO clear attribution source:
Some people say, "Give the customers what they want." But that's not my approach. Our job is to figure out what they're going to want before they do. I think Henry Ford once said, "If I'd asked customers what they wanted, they would have told me, 'A faster horse!'" People don't know what they want until you show it to them. That's why I never rely on market research. Our task is to read things that are not yet on the page.
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