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Re: Gordon Moore has died

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Post by dctoedt »

fnordpiglet wrote: post #83
osigurdson wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Try to become a giant yourself - why not?

A giant typically means famous. There are many giants that we will never know the name of. For me, I’d rather die famous with my friends and family and have changed the world in my silent way. I’ve been fortunate enough to do it a few times already, and I hope I’ll get another chance before I die as most people never get the first chance. That’s I think a better goal - when a chance comes to change everything, jump i…

> There are many giants that we will never know the name of.

And sadly, there are millions living out their lives in poorer parts of the world who might have become giants, if only they'd had access to nutrition, good parenting, education, connections, etc.

Re: Gordon Moore has died

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Post by mabbo »

cduzz wrote: post #179

I would like to propose "Grove's Axiom" which basically states: If you're failing, pivot to what your replacement will do before you fail. "In the midst of the doldrums of 1985, Grove posed a hypothetical question to his colleague Gordon Moore: “If we got kicked out and the board brought in a new CEO, what do you think he would do?” Moore answered without hesitation, “He would get us out of memories.” To which Grove…

That's a pretty powerful axiom. I wonder how applicable it is to life in general.

Relationship is failing (and you want to save it): what will their next partner do differently? Do it now!

Worried you might be kicked off a sports team: what will the new player do better than you? Practice that!

Imposter syndrome has you worried your boss will fire you: what will the replacement, the "real" person do that you aren't? Start doing that today.

Re: Gordon Moore has died

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Post by dghughes »

ankit70 wrote: post #127
GalenErso wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I sometimes make myself a mental list of famous people who are expected to die soon. The following people will all die in the next few years: Jimmy Carter (98), Henry Kissinger (99), Dick Cheney (82), Pope Francis (86), Paul McCartney (80), John Williams (91), William Shatner (92), and Ali Khamenei (83).

Alan Alda.

And Mike Farrell.

Re: Gordon Moore has died

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Post by chrisco255 »

davnicwil wrote: post #23
acjohnson55 wrote: post #12

Wow, we have lost a true legend. As I get older, I marvel a bit at the giants I once shared time on the earth with. Sometimes it feels like we don't have giants in the 21st century in the same way.

I think this is tautological - this is how it must always be, and I would guess has been the common view at any given point of time in history. You can only properly assess and appreciate the impact sufficient to assign 'legend' status to an individual or institution retroactively, decades hence from the actions that elevated them there.

Not at all. Moore himself has been recognized and celebrated for decades.

But many other such figures achieved 'legendary' status while they were very much alive and in their prime: Edison, Ford, Bell, Wright Bros, Disney, Carnegie, Einstein, Oppenheimer, etc.

Moore himself was a member of an elite crew and one of Shockley's (the inventor of the transistor) "Traitorous Eight" which spun out from their former mentor to join Fairchild Semiconductor before all of them spun out from that enterprise to found their own companies and in the process create Silicon Valley proper.

Re: Gordon Moore has died

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Post by kqr »

kitd wrote: post #144
kqr wrote: post #139

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Since IIRC bug count is roughly proportional to source code line count, this implies the aggregate complexity of software doubles too. That might sound foreign, but if you think duplicated effort and accidental complexity rather than problem domain complexity it wouldn't surprise me if it was close to true. Points to the value of sticking close to the problem domain.

I heard error count is proportional to LoC + # of developers involved in writing it. So as well as the accidental complexity from LoC, the more people touch a code base, the greater the chance of broken communication and misunderstandings. Ie bugs.

I suspect lines of code and number of developers are strongly enough correlated that it's hard to get any additional predictive power from the latter!

Re: Gordon Moore has died

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Post by chrisco255 »

JamesAdir wrote: post #134
acjohnson55 wrote: post #12

Wow, we have lost a true legend. As I get older, I marvel a bit at the giants I once shared time on the earth with. Sometimes it feels like we don't have giants in the 21st century in the same way.

It takes time to understand who is the true giant. Robert Metcalfe just received the ACM Turing award last week and his contributions where from the 70's. It's the same with Nobel laureates, it takes year for your work to be recognized.

Not really, no. He may have just recently received an award (he's received many awards) but Metcalfe has been recognized for his achievements for decades. He got the ACM Grace Hopper award in 1980: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Murray_Hopper_Award

Re: Gordon Moore has died

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Post by alexpotato »

cduzz wrote: post #179

I would like to propose "Grove's Axiom" which basically states: If you're failing, pivot to what your replacement will do before you fail. "In the midst of the doldrums of 1985, Grove posed a hypothetical question to his colleague Gordon Moore: “If we got kicked out and the board brought in a new CEO, what do you think he would do?” Moore answered without hesitation, “He would get us out of memories.” To which Grove…

This reminds me of the advice:

When deciding what to do, imagine that you are not talking to yourself but rather what you would tell someone else to do in your situation.

This simple mental shift apparently removes a lot of cognitive biases and emotional baggage that might be affecting your decision making process.

Re: Gordon Moore has died

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Post by uptownfunk »

Wow

>> By the 50th anniversary of Moore’s Law in 2015, Intel estimated that the pace of innovation engendered by Moore’s Law had ushered in some $3 trillion in additional value to the U.S. gross domestic product over the prior 20 years. Moore’s Law had become the cornerstone of the semiconductor industry, and of the constantly evolving technologies that depend on it.

Critical to that engine of growth had been U.S. investment in basic research and STEM education, ten percent of the U.S. Federal Budget in 1968. By 2015, however, that had been reduced to a mere four percent. To Gordon, investment in discovery-driven science was another key impetus behind creating the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation in 2000, especially in the context of a widening funding gap for something he recognized as critical to human progress.

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