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James Crabtree

@jamescrabtree
8 posts
2024-07-17
Trump Bloomberg interview, behind paywall. Relevant Taiwan quotes below. Not i think anything he hasn't said before re chips and the complexity of defending Taiwan. https://www.bloomberg.com/...
2024-07-17 View on X
Bloomberg

Donald Trump says “I'm for TikTok, because you need competition”, and “if you don't have TikTok, you have Facebook and Instagram” and “that's Zuckerberg”

It's late June, and Donald Trump is plotting his next presidency in the gilded offseason isolation of the Mar-a-Lago Club.

2021-12-11
Perceptive piece on #CarlsonNepo. That job title is even better. “They say chess is a deep dark forest full of snakes and thorns,” said Danny Rensch, the chief chess officer of https://chess.com/. “Magnus brings his opponents into that forest.” https://www.wsj.com/...
2021-12-11 View on X
Wall Street Journal

A look at the impact of supercomputers on chess, as world champion Magnus Carlsen, who boasts of being the least influenced by a computer, wins another title

Chess engines were supposed to make classical chess more predictable.  Instead, they made the most inventive player of all time more creative. Tweets: @chesscom , @clutchplay , @ja...

2021-04-01
“We fear and yearn for “the singularity.” But it will probably never come.” Attn @paragkhanna 😘 https://www.newyorker.com/...
2021-04-01 View on X
New Yorker

For the foreseeable future, technological innovation will be driven by humans, not self-improving AI systems, so there won't be a “singularity”

2020-06-03
Interesting example of a sharp rise in anti-Chinese sentiment in India. “The popularity of Remove China Apps, which promised to alert users to any Chinese-made apps on their phones, comes after unease over the influx of Chinese tech companies .... ” https://www.ft.com/...
2020-06-03 View on X
Financial Times

Google removes Remove China Apps, which promised to help users rid their smartphones of Chinese apps, from the Play Store; the app had 4.7M downloads in India

Remove China Apps reached top of Play Store in India before it was ousted on Tuesday  —  Google intervened on Tuesday after millions …

2020-04-14
This is persuasive on the limitations of contact tracing apps - not least the bit on whether people will actually trust the information the app provides, especially if it involves another 14 days at home https://twitter.com/...
2020-04-14 View on X
TechCrunch

Apple and Google confirm contact tracing update will work on devices running iOS 13 or Android 6+ via Google Play and say only health authorities can access API

Last week, Apple and Google announced a partnership that will soon let users opt-in to a decentralized tracing tool …

This is persuasive on the limitations of contact tracing apps - not least the bit on whether people will actually trust the information the app provides, especially if it involves another 14 days at home https://twitter.com/...
2020-04-14 View on X
Light Blue Touchpaper

A list of issues that make contact tracing an impractical solution in the real world, from trolling others to cheating to insufficient adoption

but it doesn't have to be creepy Vass Bednar / regs to riches : #6  —  This is a newsletter about regulatory hacking featuring (mostly) Canadian startups. Xinmei Shen / Abacus : Fr...

2020-04-13
This is persuasive on the limitations of contact tracing apps - not least the bit on whether people will actually trust the information the app provides, especially if it involves another 14 days at home https://twitter.com/...
2020-04-13 View on X
Light Blue Touchpaper

A list of issues that make contact tracing an impractical solution in the real world, from trolling others to cheating to insufficient adoption

There have recently been several proposals for pseudonymous contact tracing, including from Apple and Google.

2020-02-03
.@benedictevans Tech in 2020 deck is both fascinating and a model of clear PPT design. Also: 175 online mattress companies?! https://www.ben-evans.com/... https://twitter.com/...
2020-02-03 View on X
Benedict Evans

Now that tech has connected most of the world, a look at the opportunities and issues this creates for the 2020s

We connected (almost) everyone There are 5.5bn adults on earth, 5bn have a phone and 4bn have a smartphone