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What an excellent article Babbage. Your point about hardware in regards to “software earing the world is spot on . The GPU/transformer world and other neural processors is turning computing upside down.

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Thank you so much Feisal.

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Re the quotation attributed to Stalin, while there's lots of discussion, it appears that Stalin did use the quotation even before WWII, per this post in the conversation you link to: https://qr.ae/psV7pQ

Who knows, of course, whether he devised the quote, but you'll surely agree that coming from Stalin, it has a resonance far more memorable than in the mouths or writings of just about anyone else.

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