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> What are the most interesting things in tech you've seen lately?

Same old, same old. People revisiting old tech (linear algebra, newton-rhapson, euclidean graph theory, bfs etc etc.) and rediscovering its value are getting rich with new and interesting projects, people chasing new tech pipe dreams getting scammed or scamming others. The scene hasn't changed much recently.

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Same old, same old. People revisiting old tech (electrons, atoms etc.) and rediscovering its value are getting rich with new and interesting projects, people chasing new tech pipe dreams getting scammed or scamming others. The scene hasn't changed much recently.

At the sake of sounding naive, how does one who is new to the field find old tech to revisit?

At the risk of sounding r/IAmVerySmart I think there is great value in revisiting computer science lectures for inspiration, always keeping part of your mind busy with the notion of applying them to real world problems. Like when you see an article from uber/lyft engineering on how they solve their data collection problems or how they schedule their inter-dependent tasks, the whole project is most probably rooted in someone revisiting their CS courses and building upon ideas like state machines and boolean algebra. Even those fabled blockchains can be invented using undegraduate course on limit theory and a master's course on elliptic cryptography. It just seems like everything is just out there for the pickings.

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