Recently I was saying how much amazing stuff there is in retro computing. One thing that keeps coming to mind for me recently is just how visionary Thinking Mac

Recently I was saying how much amazing stuff there is in retro computing. One thing that keeps coming to mind for me recently is just how visionary Thinking Machines Connection Machine supercomputer architecture was with its massive parallelism built in, with neural network applications being a key predicted use case at the time. That was so long ago! Interesting to think about in comparison to the challenges today around parallelizing 'commodity' GPUs. Scare quotes because he A100 and H100 are pretty impressive machines in and of themselves.