Russia Wants to Create a Silicon Valley in Cuba, Close to the United States

https://www.directoriocubano.info/en/cuba/rusia-quiere-crear-un-silicon-valley-en-cuba-muy-cerca-de-estados-unidos/

by rmason • 12 months ago

23 8 12 months ago

directoriocubano.info

yostrovs• 12 months ago

HN is not a comedy forum.

Rendello• 12 months ago

1962: Cuba has missile silos only one strait away.

2025: Cuba has datacenters only one hop away.

blitzar• 12 months ago

Blockade Cuba to keep GPUs out.

charlescearl• 12 months ago

“Cuban information scientists didn’t just critique the limitations of traditional informatics, however. They also advanced a more critical approach to mathematical modeling, one that emphasized the social complexity and the historical contingency of informational regularities. In the 1980s, when Cuban libraries were beginning to adopt digital computers, Setién Quesada was tasked with developing a mathematical model of library activity, based on statistical data, for the purpose of economic planning. ”

https://logicmag.io/care/informatics-of-the-oppressed/

kolinko• 12 months ago

Is this a joke? Talking about “freedom from opression” and socialist/communist systems? And complaining about restricted access to knowledge in capitalism and implying soc/communist systems were better?

Did the author of this post ever talk to anyone who lived behind the iron curtain?

billy99k• 12 months ago

Good luck. Russia's claim to fame is mail.ru, a site stolen from the founders by the government and stuck using 30+ year old technology stacks.

avmich• 12 months ago

Yandex's Alisa will probably disagree, but AI's opinions might be not too popular.

cornhole• 12 months ago

the only cool thing that has come out of russia is the band kino

Russia Wants to Create a Silicon Valley in Cuba, Close to the United States

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