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by drallison 3y ago
Amazing work. <sigh/> A whole block of cool research to track. <grin/>
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by drallison 3y ago
The undocumented instructions in the 8085 were described in detail in Dr Dobb's Journal shortly after announcement of the 8085 (with no mention of the "new" instructions).
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by drallison 3y ago
The 6600 was not a superscalar machine but simply a pipelined processor. Superscalar machines first appeared in the floating point processor of the IBM 360/91 and may well be due to John Cocke (IBM) who generalized the notion. Yale Pa
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by drallison 3y ago
The People's Computer Company published many BASIC games in its publications (PCC Newspaper, People's Computers, Dr. Dobbs Journal, Recreational Computing) and in the book, What to Do After You Hit Return: Or, P.C.C.'s First
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by drallison 3y ago
I worked on the MUMPS Standard when I taught in the Medical Informatics Committee at UC San Francisco. When I first encountered the language, I was appalled. For example, in pre-standard MUMPS, lines with no trailing blanks and lines with
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by drallison 3y ago
Wait. We are exploring boundaries and understanding and not necessarily maintaining the present system. Money? Lend? Ownership? Business? Protecting money? Payments? Privilege? Banking? These are all up for rethinking.
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by drallison 3y ago
Why do we even need banks? What does the financial industry provide? If we were to restructure everything, what would make sense? What are the invariant properties of a viable financial system?
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by drallison 4y ago
Everyone should read this summary/review of the "debate". More important, everyone should read the paper being debated: Social Processes and Proofs of Theorems and Programs, Richard A. De Millo (Georgia Institute of Technolog
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by drallison 4y ago
Eric Mitchell will discuss the problem of detecting machine-generated text followed by an open forum Q&A. Part of EE380, Stanford EE Computer Systems Forum.
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Detecting Machine-Generated Text (4PM 2/22)(ee380.stanford.edu)
1 points by drallison 4y ago|1 comments
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by drallison 4y ago
Don't believe this article. If adding automation and robots to the mix does not decrease cost, it is not going to happen. Labor is the only free variable.
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by drallison 4y ago
It is a real loss, Gumby. Carl and I were friends and spent hours on the telephone solving the problems of the world and playing polymath math. Hardly a day would go by without an hour or so chat with Carl.
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by drallison 4y ago
It is a real loss, Gumby. Carl and I were friends and spent hours on the telephone solving the problems of the world.
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Carl Hewitt has died [pdf](ee380.stanford.edu)
158 points by drallison 4y ago|33 comments
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by drallison 4y ago
Amen. Fuel out of thin air: CO2 capture from air and converted to methanol takes way more energy than can be recovered from the created fuel.
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by drallison 4y ago
Just a quick reminder: Fred Brooks did much more than write the Mythical Man Month.
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by drallison 4y ago
Most of what passes for crypto isn't. The hard problem is not providing an encrypted channel, it's doing the rest, particularly key exchange. When you can construct an encrypted channel, then you need to look at maintaining the
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by drallison 4y ago
It is unlikely that there is a way to avoid obsession and addiction Supply an ipad with a reliable high bandwidth "works anywhere" network connection, lots of memory, lots of processor performance, and Minecraft. Sign her/hi
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David A. Hodges (1937-2022)
7 points by drallison 4y ago|0 comments
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by drallison 4y ago
The 1979 HP APL\3000 compiler was pretty cool. As I remember, the project was led by John Walters who led the IBM 360 assembler development and was unique in how it managed data references. An earlier compiler/interpreter in the same
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by drallison 4y ago
No, I do not believe engineer founders have problems getting hired. They are "experienced" and "know the ropes". Startups rarely fail because of a boffo in engineering.
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by drallison 4y ago
I second this choice. Be sure to get the second edition and to read the various fascicles for Knuth's Volume 4 of Art of Computer Programming. Volume 2 has some useful content as well.
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by drallison 4y ago
If you become one of the best programmers in the world, what will you have achieved? What is there about programming that captures your passion? Will that be sustainable for the brief moment you are alive. What do you want as a legacy afte
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Nick Tredennick Passes
4 points by drallison 4y ago|1 comments
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by drallison 4y ago
Archive.org (the Internet Archive) is doing important, critical work to build and maintain an archival copy of everything. If you have not used the system, spend some time and discover the gems that are included in its collection. https:&#
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by drallison 4y ago
Archive.org (the Internet Archive) is doing important, critical work to build and maintain an archival copy of everything. If you have not used the system, spend some time and discover the gems that are included in its collection. https:&
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by drallison 4y ago
Worth listening particularly if you think you'd like to buy a sailboat and gadabout the world. Engaging, geeky, and informative.
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by drallison 4y ago
Well,"space bubbles" do not provide a mechanism to reverse global warming. Space bubbles (and other shading systems) divert some of the incoming heat from the sun and would allow cooling by re-radiation. But the space bubbles do
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by drallison 4y ago
Patents are constitutionally mandated. Article I Section 8 | Clause 8 – Patent and Copyright Clause of the Constitution. [The Congress shall have power] “To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to a
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by drallison 4y ago
This interpreter for a BASIC subset very much like Tiny BASIC, which was done for the Altair as a project at PCC (The People's Computer Company) in the mid-1970's. I am looking forward to reading the code.

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