Pretty incredible that such world changing code fits on one page.
It’s ineresting that when tools are new, like ASM in 1978, they give high leverage to the first to use them. Microsoft was able to leverage a small amount of code into a world changing platform. Now it would be nearly impossible to do the same with a team the same size.
But in 2018, the nascent state of ML tools looks similar to the nascent state of programming tools in 1978. And indeed we are seeing entire companies built around relatively basic AI in the scheme of things. As first movers these companies have the same kind of leverage with respect to AI that Microsoft did to Software in the 1980s.
Perhaps in 2058 someone will share a link to a Tensorflow script and we will all marvel at its terseness and apparent simplicity.
> Pretty incredible that such world changing code fits on one page.
What code are you looking at? I see "Microsoft BASIC for 6502 Original Source Code" which runs for 6955 lines. By my reasoning that is more than a hundred pages.
Ok, “one page” may not be a technically fair description (though it does fit on a web page). Still, I think most programmers would agree that nowadays, few world changing technologies can be expressed in 6955 lines of code. That’s what I mean by high leverage.
