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A review by kyscg
Idea Man by Paul Allen
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
3.0
Allen has a line about computer programming being a true meritocracy and how anyone could write programs irrespective of their background. And then, a few pages later, he writes about how he racked hundreds of dollars in compute time and his dad just paid for them. Myopic.
I thought this venture was super interesting, considering how my first academic research was along these lines. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traf-O-Data
The book is great, I loved all the parts about Bill, and his unrelenting leadership style. Definitely would have loved to read more about Bill. Paul Allen is super-cool too, with his renaissance man style of living, he probably squeezed more from the lemon than Bill Gates did. The best part is Paul Allen's prescience, it is uncanny, and you start to wonder if his predictions were as trivial to make as he makes them sound. The appendix has a list of ideas to solve in Artificial Intelligence, so many of which are already solved in the last couple years. RIP Paul Allen, you literally, would have loved 2023.
I thought this venture was super interesting, considering how my first academic research was along these lines. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traf-O-Data
The book is great, I loved all the parts about Bill, and his unrelenting leadership style. Definitely would have loved to read more about Bill. Paul Allen is super-cool too, with his renaissance man style of living, he probably squeezed more from the lemon than Bill Gates did. The best part is Paul Allen's prescience, it is uncanny, and you start to wonder if his predictions were as trivial to make as he makes them sound. The appendix has a list of ideas to solve in Artificial Intelligence, so many of which are already solved in the last couple years. RIP Paul Allen, you literally, would have loved 2023.