Just Tech For Now -- April 14, 2026

Locator: 50518TECH.

It's unlikely I will ever watch CNBC except for small snippets, I suppose, but even that is very unlikely. CNBC on-line is great for headlines and when I'm blocked by paywalls at Bloomberg and Reuters, the chatbots get me what I want. 

Oracle: link here. 

Amazon: signs $12 billion deal to buy Globalstar.

Ticker AMZN: 

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Others

MU: up 2% today; up over $7.00.

AMD: up 1% today; up over $2.50

AVGO: up 7% past five days; up $25 past five days.

ORCL: up 4% today; up almost $7 today.

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The Book Page

Why Machines Learn: The Elegant Math Behind Modern AI, Anil Ananthaswamy, c. 2024 / 2025.

This is why the AI revolution is not even closely / remotely near the end. If Americans don't want LDCs in their backyard, the revolution will continue unabated in China.

This is why this book is so good. Notes are updated here. 

Chapter 10
The Algorithm that Put Paid to a Persistent Myth

 

First paragraph: Minsky and Papert myth; discussed with Geoffrey Hinton. This is what makes this book so good.

 

Hinton: one of the key figures behind the modern deep learning revolution.

 

Hinton got interested in neural networks in the mid 1960s when he was still in high school in the UK. 

 

This is why this book is so good: