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Steve Ballmer was an underrated CEO
Published: October 28, 2024 00:00
There's a common narrative that Microsoft was moribund under Steve Ballmer and then later saved by the miraculous leadership of Satya Nadella. This is the dominant narrative in every online discussion about the topic I've seen and it's a commonly expressed…
How good can you be at Codenames without knowing any words?
Published: August 11, 2024 00:00
About eight years ago, I was playing a game of Codenames where the game state was such that our team would almost certainly lose if we didn't correctly guess all of our remaining words on our turn. From the given clue, we were unable to do this. Although…
A discussion of discussions on AI bias
Published: June 16, 2024 00:00
There've been regular viral stories about ML/AI bias with LLMs and generative AI for the past couple years. One thing I find interesting about discussions of bias is how different the reaction is in the LLM and generative AI case when compared to…
Beware of Bioware
Published: May 31, 2024 00:00
This is an archive of some posts in a forum thread titled "Beware of Bioware" in a now defunct forum, with comments from that forum as well as blog comments from a now defunct blog that archived that made the first attempt to archive this content. The…
Comments on the FTC antitrust investigation of Google
https://danluu.com/ftc-google-antitrust/
Published: May 26, 2024 00:00
This is a summary of the publicly available documents on the 2011-2012 FTC investigation of Google's allegedly antitcompetive actions in search and ads, followed by a tech-focused analysis of the decision from someone who's worked at the two companies that…
How web bloat impacts users with slow devices
https://danluu.com/slow-device/
Published: March 16, 2024 00:00
In 2017, we looked at how web bloat affects users with slow connections. Even in the U.S., many users didn't have broadband speeds, making much of the web difficult to use. It's still the case that many users don't have broadband speeds, both inside and…
Retrospective Thoughts on BitC
https://danluu.com/bitc-retrospective/
Published: February 24, 2024 00:00
This is an archive of the BitC retrospective by Jonathan Shapiro that seems to have disappeared from the internet Jonathan S. Shapiro shap at eros-os.org Fri Mar 23 15:06:41 PDT 2012 By now it will be obvious to everyone that I have stopped work on…
Diseconomies of scale in fraud, spam, support, and moderation
https://danluu.com/diseconomies-scale/
Published: February 18, 2024 00:00
If I ask myself a question like "I'd like to buy an SD card; who do I trust to sell me a real SD card and not some fake, Amazon or my local Best Buy?", of course the answer is that I trust my local Best Buy1 more than Amazon, which is notorious for selling…
Why it's impossible to agree on what's allowed
https://danluu.com/impossible-agree/
Published: February 7, 2024 00:00
On large platforms, it's impossible to have policies on things like moderation, spam, fraud, and sexual content that people agree on. David Turner made a simple game to illustrate how difficult this is even in a trivial case, No Vehicles in the Park. If…