Ages ago, when secretaries (usually female) were still common in offices, my boss told me "learn the names of all of the secretaries and say hello <name> every time you see them. If they know you and like you, they will…
Apps that create false data to crash advertising algorithms. Random GPS locations, random product interests, random web site visits, random follows and likes. Like how SEO poisons search results. Apps that respond to…
Advertising cost is added to the product price. In order to generate one trillion dollars in advertising revenue, there would have to be about 20 trillion more in product spend. Civilization does not have another 20…
2001: a Space Odyssey. I saw it in the theater in 70mm when it was released in 1968. It totally blew me away. A majestic vision of the future. Thirty three years from now (1968) there was going to be all this marvelous…
Ages ago, the Digital Equipment VAX had a hardware hack where a null pointer (value is 0) would return a 0 when de-referenced. Which is the null character, the end of a string. So most of the time operations moving…
Ages ago, before even dumb terminals, we were programming on punched cards, batch compiling, and printing on a line printer. For some reason, this printer supported control G (the bell character) with a buzzer. So…
Their climate calculations do not include the environmental costs of commuting and return to office mandates. There would be less pollution if no employee commuted and there is no big office building.
System.out.println("Hello World");
Convince me that an AI Agent won't piss off the customer.
Some of his books are available in pdf on his website: https://gordonbell.azurewebsites.net/gbvita.htm I used Computer Structures:Readings and Examples in an architecture class, and High Tech Ventures in an…
There are a bunch of places in Silicon Valley. For example: https://www.abettersource.com/ Search for used office furniture. There are also auctions when a company closes down: For example:…
They are restricting the solutions by encapsulating each problem with boundaries. 1. Create remote work technology that is better than open plan workplaces. 2. Create small self-driving one or two person electric cars.…
There is a place in SF called luma that sponsors many such events. I have never been, don't know if it is a waste of time or not. https://lu.ma/sf
Move to San Francisco, or Silicon Valley and start networking: subscribe to techstars silicon valley sf bay area newsletter. Triplebyte had online tests and phone interviews, now owned by Karat.com Put a notification in…
I tried to read the article, but received a popup in the face asking for a subscription. I guess the answer is, "Yea, a media extinction event has already happened".
You need to be able to generate any machine instruction. like clear the cache, turn interrupts off and on, access the hardware bits on the I/O cards, access privileged instructions, etc. The language needs to use every…
Want to prohibit links to sites with paywalls.
Go to the Stanford Business School. Learn to schmooze. Stanford has a golf course, with classes for students. Date and marry one of the students. Make lots of contacts. Hang out at the various startup groups and the…
Start with one or more of Harvard's intro CS courses: https://www.classcentral.com/report/harvard-cs50-guide/ Then you need a lot of data structure / algorithms work. There are free online CS courses at Harvard, MIT,…
Years ago, I watched a Y Combinator startup school video. The presenter was talking about their standard company structure, registering the company in Delaware, standard vesting schedule (four years, one year cliff,…
680 units, only 212 parking spaces. Plus retail and gym that needs parking. On the geologic map, looks like the location is on sand (sand dunes). How much water, waste water treatment, electrical power will be required?
Hot Chips is a technical conference held at Stanford in August. There are presentations on the latest chips, CPU,GPU, TPU, networking. In 2023, it will be both a physical conference at Stanford, and a virtual…
Create a drawing of a full size piano keyboard, with black lines. Mount a camera (or a cell phone w/ camera) above the layout. Write software that recognizes the keys. Extend software to track fingers to convert their…
The Innovators by Walter Issacson A History of Modern Computing 2ed by Paul Ceruzzi The Innovator's Dilemma by Clayton Christensen Connections by James Burke (also a PBS series)
Digital Equipment Corporation, located outside of Boston, was the developer of the PDP family of computers. A key figure in developing many of their computers was C. Gordon Bell…
Ages ago, when secretaries (usually female) were still common in offices, my boss told me "learn the names of all of the secretaries and say hello <name> every time you see them. If they know you and like you, they will…
Apps that create false data to crash advertising algorithms. Random GPS locations, random product interests, random web site visits, random follows and likes. Like how SEO poisons search results. Apps that respond to…
Advertising cost is added to the product price. In order to generate one trillion dollars in advertising revenue, there would have to be about 20 trillion more in product spend. Civilization does not have another 20…
2001: a Space Odyssey. I saw it in the theater in 70mm when it was released in 1968. It totally blew me away. A majestic vision of the future. Thirty three years from now (1968) there was going to be all this marvelous…
Ages ago, the Digital Equipment VAX had a hardware hack where a null pointer (value is 0) would return a 0 when de-referenced. Which is the null character, the end of a string. So most of the time operations moving…
Ages ago, before even dumb terminals, we were programming on punched cards, batch compiling, and printing on a line printer. For some reason, this printer supported control G (the bell character) with a buzzer. So…
Their climate calculations do not include the environmental costs of commuting and return to office mandates. There would be less pollution if no employee commuted and there is no big office building.
System.out.println("Hello World");
Convince me that an AI Agent won't piss off the customer.
Some of his books are available in pdf on his website: https://gordonbell.azurewebsites.net/gbvita.htm I used Computer Structures:Readings and Examples in an architecture class, and High Tech Ventures in an…
There are a bunch of places in Silicon Valley. For example: https://www.abettersource.com/ Search for used office furniture. There are also auctions when a company closes down: For example:…
They are restricting the solutions by encapsulating each problem with boundaries. 1. Create remote work technology that is better than open plan workplaces. 2. Create small self-driving one or two person electric cars.…
There is a place in SF called luma that sponsors many such events. I have never been, don't know if it is a waste of time or not. https://lu.ma/sf
Move to San Francisco, or Silicon Valley and start networking: subscribe to techstars silicon valley sf bay area newsletter. Triplebyte had online tests and phone interviews, now owned by Karat.com Put a notification in…
I tried to read the article, but received a popup in the face asking for a subscription. I guess the answer is, "Yea, a media extinction event has already happened".
You need to be able to generate any machine instruction. like clear the cache, turn interrupts off and on, access the hardware bits on the I/O cards, access privileged instructions, etc. The language needs to use every…
Want to prohibit links to sites with paywalls.
Go to the Stanford Business School. Learn to schmooze. Stanford has a golf course, with classes for students. Date and marry one of the students. Make lots of contacts. Hang out at the various startup groups and the…
Start with one or more of Harvard's intro CS courses: https://www.classcentral.com/report/harvard-cs50-guide/ Then you need a lot of data structure / algorithms work. There are free online CS courses at Harvard, MIT,…
Years ago, I watched a Y Combinator startup school video. The presenter was talking about their standard company structure, registering the company in Delaware, standard vesting schedule (four years, one year cliff,…
680 units, only 212 parking spaces. Plus retail and gym that needs parking. On the geologic map, looks like the location is on sand (sand dunes). How much water, waste water treatment, electrical power will be required?
Hot Chips is a technical conference held at Stanford in August. There are presentations on the latest chips, CPU,GPU, TPU, networking. In 2023, it will be both a physical conference at Stanford, and a virtual…
Create a drawing of a full size piano keyboard, with black lines. Mount a camera (or a cell phone w/ camera) above the layout. Write software that recognizes the keys. Extend software to track fingers to convert their…
The Innovators by Walter Issacson A History of Modern Computing 2ed by Paul Ceruzzi The Innovator's Dilemma by Clayton Christensen Connections by James Burke (also a PBS series)
Digital Equipment Corporation, located outside of Boston, was the developer of the PDP family of computers. A key figure in developing many of their computers was C. Gordon Bell…