For those not grasping the joke: the response is a largely incomprehensible mix of Hindi (I think) and (very-heavily accented) English. From an Indian news programme.
When I first started reading seminal works in Distributed Computing, I picked up the original (The Part-time Parliament) and it started off pretty well with the made up story of finding the algorithm as a manuscript from an archeological dig.
The original paper then quickly becomes super convoluted by continuing to explain the algorithm by overextending that allegory. By the mid point of it I felt pretty exhausted.
It was then I learnt that the original paper was lying in limbo for nearly a decade until it was finally published.
Then at a conference, Lamport got tired of people telling him his original was difficult to grasp and so came this simplified explanation.
I still have my notes on the paper somewhere in my Obsidian. I should publish those.
I for one, am absolutely fascinated with Tron Legacy. It was the first Tron movie I saw as a kid in middle school. In some ways, it's responsible for the trajectory of my career.
Apart from the obvious reasons about the DP soundtrack and the visuals, I love the theme of chasing perfection and the way it backfires.
Kevin Flynn says to CLU in the end "The thing about perfection, is that it's unknowable. You don't know that because I didn't know it when I created you" and I love the fact that it says how we can put our best and our worst into what we create. That we're not just responsible for lifeless machines, that it's more than that. And it's a hauntingly beautiful thought.
Watching these bland presentations with choreographed delivery and reading off a prompt off-screen (I'm not completely sure they're doing this, but it looks like it) makes me appreciate Steve Jobs presentations from the past so much more.
Steve really had product presentations down. I wish people at least tried to copy him.
People have definitely tried. Like Sinofsky when he announced the Surface Laptop several years ago. Or countless founders announcing their stuff. Steve was an absolute natural at the keynote and tech demo. Some people are just born like that, I think.
It is not simply just born like that. Even though he was extremely talented.
Steve practice his speech and keynote way more than any others. Once you have talent + hardwork it is hard to replicate. But even taking out the talent itself, none of the keynote are prepped to the details of what Steve would do.
In Steve's view. They probably don't give a damn about product marketing.
Jobs understood sales in a way that no one else running these tech demos/keynotes seem to. Specifically "show, don't tell."
Look at the MacBook Air launch. Jobs didn't have to say anything about how thin it was, or list product dimensions on a spec sheet. He just pulled it out of an envelope.
Likewise with the iPod. "1,000 songs in your pocket" not "It has a real hard drive with 5GB of storage."
> Jobs didn't have to say anything about how thin it was
"What is the MacBook Air? In a sentence, it's the world's thinnest notebook". [1] Then goes about listing product weight and dimensions of competitors. Granted he then visually compared the thinness, but still listed numbers.
THEN he mentioned the envelope and pulled it out... Then more specs (in the Apple style like it looks good, has a multi-touch trackpad, etc, followed by actual HDD/SDD size, and CPU spec available).
Masterfully done and well-presented regardless!
AND the product was right then and there and he could demo it and use it live
This is AI-maxing bleeding into everything. “Make me a great conference presentation”, and this is roughly what you get. AI-nshittification writ large. It’s sad to watch.
He just... highlighted Avatar. He clicked the dropdown menu, and then he randomly selected Papyrus. Like a...Like a thoughtless child just wandering by a garden, just yanking leaves along the way.
Thanks for whoever preserved these! The CartoonNetwork website was one of my most fondest memories from my childhood.
These days the official website redirects to their YouTube channel which I feel is very sad. There used to be places for kids on the internet, now everything is heading towards major platforms which I honestly feel is going to be damaging the youth in the long term.
I would rather speak to this man than anyone reading anything AI-written