The Problem of CDNs
While I haven’t posted part 2 of my series of posts on the reliance of decentralized networks on centralized infrastructure, today provides yet another good example, and once more shows we’re still not moving the right direction to be resilient. Many might know, CloudFlare began experiencing an outage today. CloudFlare is currently one of the largest Content Delivery networks (CDN) in the world, after Akamai and AWS. For those unaware, a CDN is ultimately a large number of servers that cache ...
The Problem of CDNs
While I haven’t posted part 2 of my series of posts on the reliance of decentralized networks on centralized infrastructure, today provides yet another good example, and once more shows we’re still not moving the right direction to be resilient. Many might know, CloudFlare began experiencing an outage today. CloudFlare is currently one of the largest Content Delivery networks (CDN) in the world, after Akamai and AWS. For those unaware, a CDN is ultimately a large number of servers that cache ...
Sensors, Perception, and Intelligence
A post by July on Farcaster got me thinking about natural and artificial sensors, and to what level how a creature perceives the world determines what intelligence means in that context. By limiting our understanding of intelligence to what we perceive as the norm for human intelligence based on what we perceive as the norm for human senses, we limit our understanding of what intelligence means. The human eye has two categories of sensors. One detects brightness (we usually say black and whit...
Sensors, Perception, and Intelligence
A post by July on Farcaster got me thinking about natural and artificial sensors, and to what level how a creature perceives the world determines what intelligence means in that context. By limiting our understanding of intelligence to what we perceive as the norm for human intelligence based on what we perceive as the norm for human senses, we limit our understanding of what intelligence means. The human eye has two categories of sensors. One detects brightness (we usually say black and whit...
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