Matthew Yglesias waxes rhapsodic about being on the "back half of the chessboard" in terms of the exponential growth of computer technologies. The point of this, in terms of technological progress, is ...

DPGAs (digitally programmable-gain amplifiers) are handy signal-processing components whenever ADCs must acquire signals with a wide dynamic range. Without the ability to accommodate input-signal ...

I give a lot of talks to successful, strategically-minded business people who can see around corners in their own industries, yet they struggle to grasp what exponential improvement really means. And ...