I enjoy watching John Oliver’s show every Sunday night, and a few weeks ago, I learned about someone I had never heard of: Javier Milei. I can’t find a clip of the entire segment, but the one below gives you a taste, which pretty much has the audience laughing at a person perceived as a fringe candidate.
Slope of Hope Blog Posts
Slope initially began as a blog, so this is where most of the website’s content resides. Here we have tens of thousands of posts dating back over a decade. These are listed in reverse chronological order. Click on any category icon below to see posts tagged with that particular subject, or click on a word in the category cloud on the right side of the screen for more specific choices.
Not-So-Sustainable
The Tangled Web
You probably weren’t following the mini-series+soap opera+heavy drama of OpenAI like I was this weekend, but the rather unusual structure of the organization had a lot to do with it. Weirdly, the mayhem and finger-pointing generated over the weekend seems to have simply reinvigorated interest in the entire AI space once more, instead of compelling people to flee.
![](https://slopeofhope.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/unnamed-3-1-640x640.png)
Switching from Boxes to Fees
About fifteen years ago, Adobe was all about selling boxes with thick manuals and CD ROMS. How times have changed: the actual physical stuff they are selling is almost incidental. It’s the recurring revenues that have made their fortune.
![](https://assets-global.website-files.com/61ea4a526864d021a5ef3bfc/6474bb92df7926be8273a33f_168UdyJdSkSPzeATHsQs7KAuhx9qSBVqDSyRa5yDxfUhkYjMpaMm6ByJj5x86rDmZZl1ZF3LJYgvPDmj-Qp7o7YO_Ay-hj__5AlbUZ9NcRT2C-9tBQgPweyuv7saqshpPfnbVjUU1BQrFFcxrTxnqMqyYzRUWw%3Ds0-d-e1-ft.png)