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by drallison 4y ago
There are several typos and factual errors in this article. A careful proofread with fact checking and corrections republished if it is to be used as a primary reference.
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by drallison 4y ago
Wonderful. A380 transatlantic flights were the most comfortable way to get from California to Europe (London or Paris).
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by drallison 4y ago
The Russian aggression into Ukraine is an anathema; if sanctions are the solution, everyone supporting the Ukraine needs to take a strong position despite the human cost inflicted upon civilians. Every country needs to not buy Russian goods
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by drallison 4y ago
Silicon Catalyst is a global venture incubator with many hardware projects in progress.
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by drallison 4y ago
Sometimes the instructions that come with and IKEA flat-pack are not very obvious except in retrospect.
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by drallison 4y ago
How do CEO recession expectations actually relate to and motivate the actual state of the economy? Do we have quantitative theories which make forecasts with error bars? Color me dubious.
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by drallison 4y ago
Interesting timeline of events driven by incompletely thought out policies and rules and the resulting stupidities. He lost my interest and support when his analysis and facts were extended to embrace a political philosophy.
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by drallison 4y ago
The full article title is "LUMI, Europe’s most powerful supercomputer, is solving global challenges and promoting a green transformation". It's an irrational response, but I find it difficult to trust an article about a comp
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by drallison 4y ago
Prancing Pony vending machine at Stanford AI Lab as remembered by Les Ernest: [1974 Computer controlled vending machine (Prancing Pony), which had a gambling option and automatically billed via email] The Prancing Pony Vending Machine was e
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by drallison 4y ago
Other studies and simulations suggest a more substantial rise in temperature will occur even if we were to stop all emissions today. Already there are reports of local hot spots where the temperature rise is on the order of 5 degrees Celsiu
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by drallison 4y ago
One of my favorite papers. I was part of a 1960's consulting collective (Polymorphic Corporation) started by Marcus Byruck. Coroutines and the Separable Transition-Diagram compiler pattern were part of our secret sauce.
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by drallison 4y ago
David Deutsch as well. Chiara Marleto has a nice recent book, The Science of Can and Can't , which discusses briefly the Second Law in the context of constructor theory.
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by drallison 4y ago
Why don't front end engineers report to back end engineers? It would seem logical since the backend teams are where all the magic happens and frontend teams are responsible for input and output. Conway's Law ( https://e
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by drallison 4y ago
The answer to your question, "Does anyone know the current status ?", is obviously "YES". Most of us do not know what the answer is, but someone does. Precision in asking questions is often helpful in eliciting informat
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by drallison 4y ago
Jim Grey is always worth reading. (I do wish he were still around. His disappearance Jan 20, 2007 coninues to be a mystery.)
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by drallison 4y ago
Of course, what constitutes "worst" is a difficult question. Signetics made the 2650, a nice processor with a highly regular architecture with a condition code register. After every arithmetic operation including loads and stores
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by drallison 4y ago
Stanford EE380 lecture, Livestreamed. See http://ee380.stanford.edu .
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Dennis Abts livestream 5/18 4PM Pacific “Dataflow for convergence of AI and(ee380.stanford.edu)
1 points by drallison 4y ago|1 comments
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by drallison 4y ago
Ted Nelson's vision and inventive genius helped create today's Internet. Englebart and the Augment Project at SRI made some of the vision real.
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Ted Nelson remembers Englebart 5/11/2022 4PM-5PM Pacific(ee380.stanford.edu)
11 points by drallison 4y ago|5 comments
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by drallison 4y ago
A project to design, build, fly, and deploy a prototype shadecraft satellite will be the focus of the Stanford EE Computer Systems Colloquium today, Wednesday, May 4, 2022. http://ee380.stanford.edu .
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Prototype Shadecraft Satellite Project(ee380.stanford.edu)
3 points by drallison 4y ago|1 comments
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by drallison 4y ago
You might be TOO OLD if you believe the pundits who are telling us that Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence based systems have (nearly) reached the point that a user can simply ask for what they need and the ML & AI system will
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by drallison 5y ago
This video memorializes a conversation between John Markoff and Paul Saffo at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, March 24, 2022. John's biography of Stewart Brand, Whole Earth, has just been released. See https://www
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The Many Lives of Stewart Brand (Commonwealth Club Talk)(youtube.com)
1 points by drallison 5y ago|1 comments
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by drallison 5y ago
Back when figuring out software engineering and systems design was all the rage, Mel Conway's paper was a fave. His observation--that system designs tend to mimic the social structure of the development team--was critical when it came
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by drallison 5y ago
Steve Hanna introduced me to Christopher Alexander's work. I was consulting at Intel, writing the Intel 4004/4040 native code assembler for the Intellec Microcomputer Development System. Steve and I shared a fascination in how sys
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by drallison 5y ago
DAVE Boggs and Ron Crane worked at Stanford on the original IMP which was implemented on a PDP-11. When I went to Stanford to teach in 1976, I inherited the PDP-11 for use in the EE288 laboratory. The PDP machine was unstable, crashing fr
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by drallison 5y ago
It is sad to learn that David Boggs has passed. Sadder still, ethernet dominates his acknowledged legacy. Pupnet at Xerox PARC was the test bed for modern networked computing. John Shoch and Jon Hupp, He did the measurements that made imp
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“Google Search Is Dying” talk 4pm pacific(ee380.stanford.edu)
3 points by drallison 5y ago|1 comments

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