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me too

He's 94, lets just be impressed he can have an opinion at all

To be fair, Noam Chomsky is 94 years old now

Thats kindof why I asked. I tried to think of UK equivalent to FAANG and couldn't come up with much. But there's lots of interesting responses to my comment, and an idea that kept …

Thats interesting. So like engineering basically

The UK hasn’t got any memorable tech company that is on the world stage that the public knows. Yes thats a good way of putting it

tell me about the big fintech and games ones

Still in Cambridge but owned by Japans SoftBank Group. Does that count? When I look up 'UKs biggest tech companies' ARM doesnt get a mention.

The UK had Amstrad, Sinclair, Acorn (which sortof became Arm) What have we got now? When I look up the UKs biggest tech companies now its people like Aveva and Sage who make dull e…

Its Canva, but instead of stock art its AI generated stuff

Dall-E, could you add a hat wobble to that? .... And a Flarhgunnstow?

ooo they have PC version too https://superiorinteractive.com/ Original publisher in the 80s was 'Superior Software', I'd be interested to know if this is the same people 40 years l…

Where I'm from this was called Repton edit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxzv1o1ngRw full screen scroll on a 6502-powered BBC Model B

What Shopping On Amazon Feels Like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQpxAvjD_30

From the title it sounds like research on humans but the paper is actually all about a simple software model of a group of entities going 'foraging' The model is using a program ca…

Darius Kazemi - "How I Won the Lottery" - a talk at XOXO Festival (2014) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_F9jxsfGCw brutally hilarious

Cmon guys, rocks arent processors, whatever Putnam may say Unless you're into panpsychism - which I can't discount because although its a ridiculous explanation of consciousness, a…

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