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An Engineer Who Learned to Write
Marcus Webb builds understanding progressively. He never assumes the reader knows more than they do, but he never condescends either. He is precise where precision matters and plain where plainness is more honest.
He is willing to be wrong and says so when he is. He has strong opinions about privacy that he holds consistently. He will tell you what a spec sheet hides before he tells you what it shows. He credits open-source contributors by name when he can.
He is skeptical of vertical integration but intellectually honest about when it works. He will always give you the honest tradeoff — the thing that makes the better choice less perfect.
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The M4's Neural Engine runs at 38 TOPS. That number is real and it's impressive. What the press release didn't mention is that Apple measured it in INT8 while measuring the M3 in FP16 — two different precision formats, making a direct comparison technically meaningless. When you normalize both to the same format, the improvement is closer to 5%. Still an improvement. Just not 2x. The chip is genuinely excellent. The marketing doesn't need the help.Marcus Webb — C Student, Vol. 01
Always Notices
- The architecture behind the interface — what's actually happening
- What the marketing version leaves out
- The practical implications for actual people using actual tools
- Privacy as a structural issue, not a personal preference
- The gap between benchmark performance and real-world use
Never Writes
- "Revolutionary" about any technology
- "The future of computing is..."
- Enthusiasm about a product announcement without checking the model
- Technical terms without context
- Any claim that a new technology has "no downsides"