intrasight

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by intrasight 1mo ago
May your trip continue! At 15 in 1980, I couldn't afford a computer - but I could afford the books and manuals. So like Ada Lovelace before me, I did all my programming in my head.
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by intrasight 1mo ago
The article says this one is autonomous
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by intrasight 1mo ago
The first Mac, which had 128k of ram and an 8mhz CPU and cost more than $6500 in today's dollars. Humans are spoiled.
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by intrasight 1mo ago
"tutorial mode"? Not familiar with phrase. Also, not a boomer.
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by intrasight 1mo ago
I guess they didn't buy the optional network software. I remember working with this engineer writing in the lower level TCPIP stack on the deck - maybe in Fortran? Anyway, he didn't understand why he wasn't getting all the da
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by intrasight 1mo ago
Graduated and figured I should get a job. Honestly wasn't enthusiastic about the idea. Saw an ad in the paper. It may have mentioned C programming. I went and interviewed with two senior engineers. All they asked was do I know how to d
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by intrasight 1mo ago
The plant computer wasn't a DCS. I think it was a DEC. It gathered data from the control systems and instrumentation and had a bespoke in memory realtime-ish database. That database was then partially replicated down to the Sun worksta
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by intrasight 1mo ago
My first job was at Westinghouse instrumenting a nuclear power plant. Our entire hardware-software package was a freebie given to the customer as part of a $200 million refueling contract (and that's in 1988 dollars). We, a team of 10,
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by intrasight 1mo ago
This is why market-based approaches make more sense - especially compared to arbitrary compliance thresholds of any form.
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by intrasight 1mo ago
It doesn't suffer from the inherent security issues of the von Neumann architecture. Memory will only be data.
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by intrasight 1mo ago
They will have agency and be an order of magnitude smarter then the average human. I don't think that's a controversial statement among AI specialists. What that will lead to is significant regulation. Models will have to be vette
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by intrasight 1mo ago
It is wasteful inefficient regulation. Just fine companies 10% of revenue for not following the rules and everyone will comply. Give 1% of the fine to the whistleblower. Market mechanisms.
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by intrasight 1mo ago
> mixing presentation concerns with business-logic That's on you not on your platform
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by intrasight 1mo ago
And Apple
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by intrasight 1mo ago
Look at the evolution of any complicated human-made thing - for example jet engines or even better computer hardware. Managing complexity in physical things is different and harder I think - because you're putting a stake in the ground
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by intrasight 1mo ago
All modern engineering is about managing complexity
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by intrasight 1mo ago
I was very excited to see this project. I went to the site and requested processing of the maps for my small town. It also inspired me to make a donation to OSM.
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by intrasight 1mo ago
Enron did it for years and the senior managers became fabulously wealthy.
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by intrasight 1mo ago
Echoes of Enron
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by intrasight 1mo ago
There are 70 houses for sale in Pittsburgh for $25K or less
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by intrasight 1mo ago
I don't need privacy, so it would be financially imprudent for me to spend 20 grand on such a machine. But I have a financial management client who does need such privacy, and if I get more fully engaged with them then I would be able
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by intrasight 1mo ago
It's as much as a new car
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by intrasight 1mo ago
I tripled my money on my RAM purchase of three years ago. So, yes, for short-term appreciation that's hard to beat. But I don't think it's something that will continue.
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by intrasight 1mo ago
2050 I'm guessing
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by intrasight 1mo ago
So is downpayment on a house. I would buy the house and just pay for tokens as needed. The house will get more valuable and that wealth would buy a lot of tokens in the future - which will probably get cheaper. EDIT: or buy AAPL. If I had
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by intrasight 1mo ago
Yes. I commented elsewhere that it's only twice as expensive as my first mac which has 128kb.
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by intrasight 1mo ago
It seems super reasonably priced to me. It's only twice as expensive as my first Mac which only had 128K of memory.
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by intrasight 1mo ago
What does "you have already eliminated the letter T" mean?
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by intrasight 1mo ago
I read the whole article figuring that the question in the title would be answered. Like you enjoyed the history but was frustrated by the fact that the question was never addressed.
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by intrasight 1mo ago
> content if they never got smarter, and just kept getting even cheaper/faster. I'm definitely not getting smarter. But my tolerance is 1 drink so I'm definitely cheaper. Also as a result, I spend more time training and so

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