Wednesday, July 24, 2024

Browser Check -- What We Know

What We Know About You

I created this page so that I had a place I could depend upon to get such information, particularly the external IP address necessary to see my local subnet from the Internet. Except for this text, everything here was written by ChatGPT, so it demonstrates that you can get working code from an AI if you know how.

IP Address: Loading...

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Remembered Locations

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Geolocation

This uses the "Open Cage" API to access geolocation so you need one if you want that. You can get one to try here: https://opencagedata.com/api

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Saturday, July 13, 2024

The Facebook Singularity Update

In 2012, a Forbes article dismissed Facebook's valuation, claiming it was worth only $34.5 billion, far below its actual value. Contrary to this, I predicted Facebook's market cap would soar to a trillion dollars, leveraging exponential growth and its unrivaled data network. I wrote about it at Forbes, which to their credit they did not remove and put it on my blog here: The Facebook Singularity at $1 Trillion

The projection, based on a linear trendline from past growth rates, indicated a market cap of $1,067 billion by 2024. Today, Facebook's market cap has actually surpassed $1,260 billion, exceeding all expectations.

This outcome highlights the misjudgment of the 2012 pundit who failed to grasp the technical and exponential growth aspects driving Facebook's value. The professional's simplistic arithmetic overlooked critical factors, while my analysis emphasized Facebook's dominance, network effects, and the exponential growth potential of its data-driven model.

This serves as a cautionary tale: strong opinions from experts in one domain do not necessarily translate into accurate predictions in another, especially when they lack a deep understanding of the underlying technical drivers.

As we look ahead, this lesson underscores the importance of thorough analysis and the need to consider exponential growth dynamics when evaluating the future potential of technology-driven trends. This applies, in my estimation, to the current situation where AI is being dismissed as an overblown fad by some. It is true that there is hype and possibly the majority of the noise out there is about snake-oil, but the trend is real. In 2012, a pundit thought it was quite literally impossible for Facebook's growth to occur anywhere near what it did. He was quite wrong. 

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