banging 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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Richard Feynman and the Connection Machine (1989)
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Re: Richard Feynman and the Connection Machine (1989)
#12Star Lisp would be great for the modern heterogeneous computing landscape, and being compiled.
Can you explain this as Richard would have?
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#13Star Lisp would be great for the modern heterogeneous computing landscape, and being compiled.
I agree that something like *lisp would be a welcome relief from the hairball that is CUDA. while the lisp part was actually compiled, the parallel part reduced pretty 1:1 onto Paris, (the 'assembly language' designed by Steele). that was was basically a jump table into the microcode, which was just a big control word issued by (what I remember vaguely was being an amd 2900 bit slice) sequencer.
today I guess you'd translate those vector instruction into MLIR and hope for some layout and fusion.
but absolutely, you can just use tensors like normal variables. what a awful regression
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#16I'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…
Angela Collier's video about Feynman completely changed my view of him.
Re: Richard Feynman and the Connection Machine (1989)
#17I'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…
Angela Collier's video about Feynman completely changed my view of him.
I generally agree with that video. But did she really need to take three hours to make her point?
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#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
Angela Collier's video about Feynman completely changed my view of him.
I generally agree with that video. But did she really need to take three hours to make her point?
She’s not known for the concision of her videos, true. The Feynman one is interesting to me because I also read the books about his exploits and enjoyed them.
As a reader I think you should be aware of the strong human tendency to THINK you know the character of the person you are reading about. But you should resist this temptation, because ultimately it will be a projection of your own making.
If you enjoy Feynman stories, go ahead. You don’t need to defend him or get caught up bro culture or alternatively you should be careful about denunciations of historical figures that are performative.
You should be clear about what your morals are and not base them on some historical character that you may not understand completely.
Re: Richard Feynman and the Connection Machine (1989)
#19I'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…
Angela Collier's video about Feynman completely changed my view of him.
I suspect nobody's legacy survives the microscope.
Re: Richard Feynman and the Connection Machine (1989)
#20Star Lisp would be great for the modern heterogeneous computing landscape, and being compiled.
Can you explain this as Richard would have?
He probably would pointed out books like this,
https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262192774/the-paralation-model/