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I feel that I took the days where headlines just said what an article was about for granted. Also it is extra silly because Moore's law is about transistor den

• colejohnson66 6y ago
  I have heard Moore’s law generalized to “computing power doubles every two years” which could then apply to “AI”
  • DiogenesKynikos 6y ago
    There's a subtle difference, though. Moore's law benefits all applications, by increasing performance across the board. This new "Huang's law" increases performance for certain critical applications, while presumably decreasing performance of other applications (at fixed cost). The difference is generally increasing transistor density vs. specializing hardware to perform critical tasks (like graphics rendering or tensor algebra).
  • CyberDildonics 6y ago
    That's not a generalization, it's a misunderstanding. Not every program can benefit from doubling transistors because not every program is written to minimize serial computations and the impact of memory latency. The reason Moore's law was insightful was because he didn't make the simplistic generalization of computing power (which is more difficult to quantify anyway) and looked at what was really happening on a fundamental level from an engineering perspective.
• dsjoerg 6y ago
  Yes, the competition for attention used to be at the level of the whole newspaper, or the whole magazine. Now the attention competition is at the article level, and the headline is near the top of the funnel. To not be subjected to (as much of) this insanity, you can use a smart aggregator like HN or a well-moderated subreddit.