Richard Feynman and the Connection Machine (1989)
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#2banging on the door like a madman where's the clock? where's the clock we all donated money for? tell us about the clock you cowards!
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#4https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48915709 one of the Connection Machines is in Jurassic Park. Really neat article!
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#5Danny Hillis was an MIT colleague of a friend of mine. Didn't know until now that Connection Machine had Darpa funding.
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#6Star Lisp would be great for the modern heterogeneous computing landscape, and being compiled.
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#7banging on the door like a madman where's the clock? where's the clock we all donated money for? tell us about the clock you cowards!
Should be here about now-ish.
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#8I'm a huge fan of Feynman and his autobiographies - some of my favorite books. There are a number of YouTube videos that purport to be Feynman's audio lectures, but they're actually AI generated readings of his script. Against my better instincts I listened to a couple and it was surreal experience.
On one hand, they were actually pretty decent simulacra and I loved hearing Feynman's voice and mannerisms; but on the other hand, they... weren't... real. What am I even listening to?
We are in for a weird future.
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#9Written in 2017, but always a good read.
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#10banging on the door like a madman where's the clock? where's the clock we all donated money for? tell us about the clock you cowards!
Yeah.... that was a cool idea. Too bad it'll never be built.
(Supposedly they're building it in West Texas - last update in 2024)