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I realize how much I sound like I've fallen for a cult or am about to sell you some essential oils. Perhaps I have and I'm not really sure how to NOT come off l
by culi 4y ago
I realize how much I sound like I've fallen for a cult or am about to sell you some essential oils. Perhaps I have and I'm not really sure how to NOT come off like that given how excited I am. Perhaps a step in that direction is providing some other/adjacent projects that have also made me feel similar
1. See this video by Lionel Penrose from the late 50s on a pre-digital version of "cellular automata":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sIph9VrmpM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sIph9VrmpM
2. See the, now defunct, outcome of Bret Victor's attempt at building a more communal form of computing:
https://dynamicland.org/ https://dynamicland.org/
- ryukafalz 4y agoThis also reminds me of Gerry Sussman’s talk “We Really Don’t Know How to Compute!”: https://youtu.be/HB5TrK7A4pI https://youtu.be/HB5TrK7A4pI Granted, the assumption he made is that computing power would grow increasingly cheap (which is basically the opposite of the point here), but I also wonder if techniques like those shown in that talk could be used effectively with a network of smaller, lower-power computers. (I mean, the talk does mention the use of small low-power computers specifically, but more in the context of e.g. sensor networks.)
- culi 4y agoThis looks really cool, can't wait to watch. Thanks so much for sharing. Seems like a good fit for my "computing paradigms that make me actually excited to work in tech" list