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Nowadays it cannot even be fully comprehend how places like MIT, Stanford AI lab, Xerox Park research and, of course, Bell labs were islands of intelligence and
by throwaway487550 8y ago
Nowadays it cannot even be fully comprehend how places like MIT, Stanford AI lab, Xerox Park research and, of course, Bell labs were islands of intelligence and sanity compared to the modern day's ocean of screaming bullshit.
''Dark liquid with negative mass'' sort of papers is what it all came to.
- enriquto 8y agowhat are you talking about?
- throwaway487550 8y agohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2NI6t2r_Hs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2NI6t2r_Hs among other things. These were places where old-school (with classical understanding, if we follow Robert M. Pirsig) people tried to reduce grounded in reality concepts to optimal (as humanly possible) implementations, as opposed to the modern tendency to pile up more and more crap.
- PurpleRamen 8y agoMIT, Stanford AI lab, Xerox Park research and Bell labs had 1978 their share of bullshit too. But today they are normally forgotten because survivorship bias let's us only remember the successful stuff, which BTW would include the bullshit if it were so successfully bad that it became memorable.
- throwaway487550 8y agoNo. They never produced anything even vaguely similar to J2EE, NodeJS or PHP. Old School things, like ML, MIT Scheme, T3 Scheme, Common Lisps and Haskell are unattainable to modern narcissistic idiots.
- kkarakk 8y agois it born in the wrong generation or can't stand what the new generation is doing