One of the benefits of cloud is aggregated signals.
One of the benefits of cloud is aggregated signals. It's possible to do calculations horizontally across everyone's data to produce distilled signals (e.g. rankings or recommenda...
Topic: cloud
138 mentions · 8 chunks · 8 episodes
23.8× distinctiveness vs baseline
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1.3x burst in 2024 Q2
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- cloud appears in 8 chunks across 8 episodes, from 2024-06-03 to 2026-08-03.
- Its densest episode is Bits and Bobs 6/3/24 (2024-06-03), with 1 observation on this topic.
- Semantically it travels with laminar flow, Amazon, and vast majority, while by chunk count it sits between industrial revolution and Christopher Alexander; its yearly rank moved from #144 in 2024 to #135 in 2026.
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For consumers, paying for your compute happens automatically for on-device but not by default in the cloud.
... for your compute happens automatically for on-device but not by default in the cloud. It does for enterprise, but not consumer. If you aren't paying for your compute, it's not working for you… it's working for somebody else.
A post on Bluesky reacting to the Amazon outage:
... reacting to the Amazon outage: "this entire week has been one single PSA: "the cloud" just means "someone else's computer" and that "someone else" is one of three companies and they don't give a s**t about you"
Four tiers of privacy in cloud computing:
Four tiers of privacy in cloud computing: 1) Cloud apps: couch surfing in someone else's apartment. The host can do whatever they want. 2) Cloud VMs: renting an apartment. The land...
One of the benefits of the cloud is distilled signals from aggregated data.
One of the benefits of the cloud is distilled signals from aggregated data. For example, location pingbacks can be used to generate a signal of how busy given restaurants are right n...
Sustaining innovations are laminar flow.
...ruptive innovations create turbulent flow. Chaos. Impossible to see through the cloud of uncertainty. Once you get to the other side it will feel obvious, inescapable, and you'll be able to select the random zealots who were ahead of t...
Ideas that are abstract are unit for unit less threatening.
... threatening. A concrete steamroller barreling towards you is more scary than a cloud of fog with the same mass and velocity.
Inside of your mind, an idea can be fuzzy, amorphous, a cloud of vibes.
Inside of your mind, an idea can be fuzzy, amorphous, a cloud of vibes. But to transmit it outside your mind requires distilling it. Crunching it down to something more specific. Transmuting it into a small pack...