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Biggest Lie in IT, Big Tech vs. Innovation, and Digital Brain Replication
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Biggest Lie in IT, Big Tech vs. Innovation, and Digital Brain Replication

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Feb 21, 2022
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The IT industry is filled with great people and opportunities, but it’s also filled with gatekeeping, inferiority complex, and terrible “influencers”.

The Google-backed AI firm taught a reinforcement learning algorithm to control the fiery plasma inside a tokamak nuclear fusion reactor.

Memoization is a way to cache the results of calculations (or the fun…

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