A reader recently sent me a link to a YouTube video with regard to the dangers of AI. See Geoffrey Hinton, wiki.
In the most recent edition of the Claremont Review of Books, Summer 2025, p. 21, "Raking in the Chips," an essay / review of two books on Nvidia and Jensen Huang.
- The Nvidia Way: Jensen Huang and the Making of a Tech Giant, Tae Kim, c.2005;
- The Thinking Machine: Jensen Huang, Nvidia and the World's Most covered Microchip, Stephen Witt, c. 2025.
Witt's book emerged from a New Yorker profile. From November 27, 2025, link here.
The lede:
The revelation that ChatGPT, the astonishing artificial-intelligence chatbot, had been trained on an Nvidia supercomputer spurred one of the largest single-day gains in stock-market history. When the Nasdaq opened on May 25, 2023, Nvidia’s value increased by about two hundred billion dollars. A few months earlier, Jensen Huang, Nvidia’s C.E.O., had informed investors that Nvidia had sold similar supercomputers to fifty of America’s hundred largest companies. By the close of trading, Nvidia was the sixth most valuable corporation on earth, worth more than Walmart and ExxonMobil combined. Huang’s business position can be compared to that of Samuel Brannan, the celebrated vender of prospecting supplies in San Francisco in the late eighteen-forties. “There’s a war going on out there in A.I., and Nvidia is the only arms dealer,” one Wall Street analyst said.
Huang is a patient monopolist. [But could one not say that about the CEOs of most of the "magnificent 7." The phrase was coined by BofA strategist Michael Harnett in 2023, the same year this essay appeared in The New Yorker. As Charlie Munger once said, and I paraprhase: "never stop reading."
He drafted the paperwork for Nvidia with two other people at a Denny’s restaurant in San Jose, California, in 1993, and has run it ever since.
At sixty, he is sarcastic and self-deprecating, with a Teddy-bear face and wispy gray hair. Nvidia’s main product is its graphics-processing unit, a circuit board with a powerful microchip at its core. In the beginning, Nvidia sold these G.P.U.s to video gamers, but in 2006 Huang began marketing them to the supercomputing community as well. Then, in 2013, on the basis of promising research from the academic computer-science community, Huang bet Nvidia’s future on artificial intelligence. A.I. had disappointed investors for decades, and Bryan Catanzaro, Nvidia’s lead deep-learning researcher at the time, had doubts. “I didn’t want him to fall into the same trap that the A.I. industry has had in the past,” Catanzaro told me. “But, ten years plus down the road, he was right.”
In the near future, A.I. is projected to generate movies on demand, provide tutelage to children, and teach cars to drive themselves. All of these advances will occur on Nvidia G.P.U.s, and Huang’s stake in the company is now worth more than forty billion dollars. [Again, this was in 2023. Santa Clara, CA. Stanford. Schwab. Robinhood. SoFi.In my world, the center of interest has moved from Harvard University, East Coast, to Stanford, West Coast. Chelsea Clinton is a Stanford graduate, high honors, and graduate degrees from Oxford University and Columbia University.]
Movies on demand? I'm thinking NFL football. Sunday, Monday, and Thursday. College football on Saturdays, and Texas high school football on Fridays. Some of the financially "poorest" high schools in Texas have the best high school football teams.
In the past decade, the exact number of quarterbacks drafted from Texas high schools varies by the source and timeframe. One MaxPreps.com article from April 2020 noted 20 quarterbacks from Texas high schools were drafted between 2010 and 2020. More recently, another Athlon Sports article from May 2024 stated that 12 active NFL quarterbacks in 2024 played their high school football in Texas.
There are generally 32 starting NFL quarterbacks, one for each team, but the exact number of "active" quarterbacks can vary as some teams have a third quarterback on the active roster and others keep one on the practice squad, so it would be closer to 35-40 quarterbacks on an active roster for a game day in the 2025 season.
High school football:
- Southlake Carroll Dragons, Texas
- De La Salle Owls, northern California
My hunch: AI has the potential [of being used] to "examine" every Texas high school football game to "predict" NFL-caliber players.
The best chatbots in 2025. Link here.
Top generative chatbots by market share. Link here. This chart has been previously posted on the blog.
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Texas And Northern California
From AI:
In the past decade, consistently performing Texas high school football teams include the Southlake Carroll Dragons, who are often cited as one of the most consistent teams in the state. Other consistently high-performing programs identified in lists focusing on specific time frames or win categories are the De La Salle Owls (northern California) for their historical dominance, and numerous smaller-division teams like Richland Springs (Texas), Strawn (Texas), and Abbott (Texas) from the 1A classification.
The Southlake Carroll Dragons football team has been highly successful in the past ten years, making multiple state championship appearances and winning a state title in 2011, though they haven't won another state championship since. They have continued to be a dominant program under head coach Riley Dodge, achieving nine district titles and maintaining an impressive overall record, consistently making deep playoff runs and establishing themselves as one of Texas's elite teams
De La Salle High School holds the national record 151-game winning streak spanning from 1992 to 2004. The streak occurred under the leadership of Bob Ladouceur, who began coaching at the school in 1979. It ended when they were defeated on September 4, 2004, by Bellevue High School (Washington), outside Seattle. De La Salle finished the 2007 football season 13–0 and as state champions. In 2009, De La Salle defeated Crenshaw 28–14 to win the state title again. In 2010, De La Salle defeated Servite, ranked #7 in the nation, 48–8, to win the state title game for a second straight year. De La Salle finished the season 14–0 and ranked #1 in the nation by MaxPreps.
