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Oil and gas industries are data crunching monsters. While I thought it was impressive I got to work with < terabyte datasets I’ve met so many data scientists cr

• 908B64B197 5y ago
  > I’m convinced if SV hadn’t happened in SV it would have happened in Dallas or Houston. Part of what attracted investors and innovators to the bay were the non-compete laws and counter culture of the time.
• LargoLasskhyfv 5y ago
  Some blips of that alternate timeline: Schlumberger buying Fairchild, which had FLAIR (Fairchild Laboratory for Artificial Intelligence Research), then opening SPAR (Schlumberger Palo Alto Research) and moving FLAIR into that. Also long forgotten CPU-Architecture called https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clipper_architecture https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clipper_architecture later sold to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intergraph https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intergraph https://www.slb.com/who-we-are/our-history/1980s https://www.slb.com/who-we-are/our-history/1980s Closing of SPAR, and moving parts of that to Austin. https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-10-18-fi-4498-story.html https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-10-18-fi-4498-s... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Martin_Tenenbaum https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Martin_Tenenbaum Some leftovers, via acquisition of Applicon and Bravo3!VLSI: https://www.staticfreesoft.com/electricHistory.html https://www.staticfreesoft.com/electricHistory.html Steven M. Rubin, Computer Aids for VLSI Design https://www.rulabinsky.com/cavd/ https://www.rulabinsky.com/cavd/