“ The Thinking Machine: Jensen Huang, Nvidia, and the most coveted micropuce in the world ‘by Stephen Witt
The reflection machine is the biography of a technological titan, but it is also “something more interesting and revealing,” said James Surowiecki In The Atlantic. The co-founder of Nvidia, Jensen Huang, was the CEO of the 1993 outfit to her explosive ascent to her current position as the third most precious company in the world, and “to be sure, Huang himself was at the heart of Nvidia’s success”. But the author Stephen Witt clearly indicates that Nvidia would not build the tokens that fuel the AI revolution in the absence of the culture and the economy established in Silicon Valley decades ago. The breakthroughs of Nvidia were built on the free movement of labor within the industry, the talent of immigrants, the research funded by the universities and the federal government, and a advice ready to give up instant rewards for long -term gain. Finally, when the opportunities crossed the views of Huang, “he made the movements daring.”
“The biography of Huang, at this stage, is well known,” said Marc Levinson In The Wall Street Journal. Born in Taiwan In 1963, he arrived in the United States at 10, at first glance in a Kentucky reform school that a family member confused with an elite preparatory school. He spent most of the rest of his youth in Oregon, moving in Silicon Valley after university and, after obtaining a master’s degree, co-founding Nvidia to build chips for pc game. “A virtue of The reflection machine Is it not entirely admired by Huang, “detailing how some early bets went wrong and how Huang speed was to blame others. But Huang played judiciously on parallel treatment, giving his game throw an edge, said The Economist. And in 2013, he did everything on the idea of neural networks before anyone know that they would be crucial for AI jump. Its famous temperament, meanwhile, “coexists with a tenderness recalled by the current and ancient subordinates”. As a boss, he loved and admired.
Because the bookThe story ends in mid-2010, key developments are lacking, said Katie Notopoulos In The New York Times. At the end of January, Nvidia’s share price fell from news that Deepseek, a Chinese startup, had developed a new powerful AI reasoning model using a fraction of the Nvidia chips required by rival systems. But Nvidia remains the market leader and The reflection machine It remains “an animated biography” which makes the technology of the AI understandable and makes “a decent work” of trial drama of the efforts of the engineers of Nvidia to carry out their changing breakthroughs on the market. Late in the book, when Witt asks Huang to discuss the dangers of AI, Huang is not content to refuse, he explodes with anger. To a certain extent, the lack of concern of this pioneer for Runaway AI “should be comforting”. Above all, however, this is not the case.
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“Who is the government?” The Untold Story of Public Service ‘edited by Michael Lewis
“Government workers are struggling with a stereotype to be face, lazy and corrupt paperless paper,” said Janet Hook In Washington monthly. Thus, at a time when President Trump and his billionaire substitution, Elon Musk, reduce the government’s jobs while denigrating the very people they shoot, it is a pleasure to discover that this recent bestseller about several federal employees formerly without face is also “a surprisingly engaging reading”. Michael Lewis, the author of Money,, The blind sideAnd other non-fiction bestsellers have persuaded several other talented writers to provide profiles of individual workers providing important public services. Although the book “Sometimes smells the puffier and the boosterism”, the subjects highlighted are good people doing good works, and it is clear that only the government can support such efforts.
“Each chapter has its own separate flavor,” said DORIAN LYNSKEY In The guardian. The profile of the novelist Geraldine Brooks of an IRS cybercrime specialist who thwarted drug traffickers and pedophiles “could be a cinema field”. Dave Eggers presents scientists who build satellites and Rovers in search of proofs of life on other planets. Lewis himself provides two “captivating” entries, one on an ancient coal minor who radically improved the safety of mines and another on an epidemiologist whose research on rare diseases saved the life of a girl whose brain was eaten by an Amibe. Given the carelessness with which Musk has operated, “it would not be surprising to learn that some of the people questioned here have already been dismissed”. For everyone, however, “the public service is a higher call”.
Sometimes the government also works better than the private sector, said GARRETT M. GRAFF In The Washington Post. The New YorkerCasey CEP Profile Ronald Walters, who as a manager in charge of the country’s veterans, manages a service focused on service that obtains higher scores on customer satisfaction surveys than any American company. Elsewhere, “the book shows, in a specific way, to what extent is safer and safer daily life is today that it was not even a generation or two.” And it is thanks to a government workforce which is accused of being swollen but which has not grown up during the same time.
