Great work on Goose, a while load of practical thought went into it. I’d love to see 1st class lightweight ‘processes’ and typed comms like CSP. These light processes would be cheap to spawn in thousands, with…
> “We typically confuse why something claims it exists, ie to glorify God, vs the forces that actually perpetuate it, which are subtler, we’d prefer not spoken aloud, and more prosaic, ie endowments, prestige, and…
Interestingly, early Ethernet performance studies suggested that about 37% utilisation was the best possible on a heavily contended network due to all the collisions. So a 10mbps Ethernet cable run was arguably similar…
And that was Ethernet at 4mbps over IBM “structured cabling”?
A very nice trip down memory lane. The big banks bought token ring because nobody gets fired for buying IBM, and Ethernet looked so amateurish compared to the heft of TR cables and chunky spaceship MAUs. Hermaphrodite…
One omission is Turing! Halmos gives JvN considerable credit for electronic computing without ever mentioning Turing or the connection between Turing’s universal machine and the stored-program computer. While the paper…
We seem to be very sensitive to style. It can be rather distracting. This writing contained 7 exclamation marks and 9 colons. As for em-dashes, there were 7.
In 2006 there was the documentary, “Who killed the electric car?” about the GM EV1 vehicle and the lobby to limit the adoption of this tech. Among other topics, the film covers the zev mandate and its reversal after…
Good points. I’ve tried this a few times and I’ve been impressed by the dialogue. Given this was a very simple prompt, I am convinced a more precise version could be developed, including a rubric, a library of course…
I am waiting for AI Viva Voce (“AVV”). I am really surprised we aren’t hearing more about this idea? Try it for yourself by making a prompt like this (adapt as needed): Pretend I am an undergraduate student of Computer…
It would be interesting to install os8088 on a later series, like a Pentium III 500mhz or a modern Intel i7! Would it even run? I guess os8088 could not harness the CPU power to make it usable. Instead, could a modern…
> “The largest tell for me to tell where culture and sentiment is shifting…” Tell? Largest “tell”? Tell for me to tell? Write in English, please: “The biggest sign that shows me how culture and sentiment are changing,…
This is great - It’s almost as impressive as the “GOS” written for Atari 8-bit running on 6502 at 1.79 MHz. Visually it’s almost identical but has a nicer font. The specs are somewhat similar with 16 task slots,…
Wow if a page ever needed reader mode, this would be it… Light grey on white !nice
One workable approach is for AI to conduct a viva voce exam with each student: after the student answers a question on a topic, the session prompts with another question which digs deeper. This goes on for say 8-12…
One thing I’m wondering is whether we need an open source set of technical patterns and libraries for dealing with this changing traffic mix. Millions of small sites and creators don’t have the ability to design their…
Someone should put this somewhere. In a book or a poster. On a LinkedIn post for managers
It’s true that “zen of” is bolted onto many topics… it’s a tired cliche to suggest “simplicity” when things are complex. Does it help or is it faux spirituality? I’ve enjoyed reading the comments here and I think…
I remember when Steve Jobs stood on stage and complained about Flash, how he hated its dominance of the free web, how it was a heavy and proprietary technology that prevented mobile devices from participating. His…
I was hoping this article would conclude with, “and the C language spec in K&R says THIS which is the correct answer”. Apparently not. So the appendix in K&R is ambiguous? And yet we use ++ so often! I can see people…
Brilliant. Love the tech-disrespect and the “right to repair”!
At Redmond, there was also the Patterns & Practices group (P&P) that tried to make sense of the dev products, and built extra libraries “to show customers how to use them”. They followed the bouncing ball of the…
Strange days we live in. Python and C++? What about a line of bash: tr -s '[:space:]' '\n' < file.txt | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn I’d like to know the memory profile of this. The bottleneck is obviously sort which…
Does not render correctly on iOS (mobile Safari)? It’s a fixed Desktop view and you can’t pinch to zoom as needed. It takes effort to prevent mobile users like this! Do others get this experience?
Once you were familiar with occam you could see deadlocks in code very quickly. It was a productive way to build scaled concurrent systems. At the time we laughed at the idea of using C for the same task
Great work on Goose, a while load of practical thought went into it. I’d love to see 1st class lightweight ‘processes’ and typed comms like CSP. These light processes would be cheap to spawn in thousands, with…
> “We typically confuse why something claims it exists, ie to glorify God, vs the forces that actually perpetuate it, which are subtler, we’d prefer not spoken aloud, and more prosaic, ie endowments, prestige, and…
Interestingly, early Ethernet performance studies suggested that about 37% utilisation was the best possible on a heavily contended network due to all the collisions. So a 10mbps Ethernet cable run was arguably similar…
And that was Ethernet at 4mbps over IBM “structured cabling”?
A very nice trip down memory lane. The big banks bought token ring because nobody gets fired for buying IBM, and Ethernet looked so amateurish compared to the heft of TR cables and chunky spaceship MAUs. Hermaphrodite…
One omission is Turing! Halmos gives JvN considerable credit for electronic computing without ever mentioning Turing or the connection between Turing’s universal machine and the stored-program computer. While the paper…
We seem to be very sensitive to style. It can be rather distracting. This writing contained 7 exclamation marks and 9 colons. As for em-dashes, there were 7.
In 2006 there was the documentary, “Who killed the electric car?” about the GM EV1 vehicle and the lobby to limit the adoption of this tech. Among other topics, the film covers the zev mandate and its reversal after…
Good points. I’ve tried this a few times and I’ve been impressed by the dialogue. Given this was a very simple prompt, I am convinced a more precise version could be developed, including a rubric, a library of course…
I am waiting for AI Viva Voce (“AVV”). I am really surprised we aren’t hearing more about this idea? Try it for yourself by making a prompt like this (adapt as needed): Pretend I am an undergraduate student of Computer…
It would be interesting to install os8088 on a later series, like a Pentium III 500mhz or a modern Intel i7! Would it even run? I guess os8088 could not harness the CPU power to make it usable. Instead, could a modern…
> “The largest tell for me to tell where culture and sentiment is shifting…” Tell? Largest “tell”? Tell for me to tell? Write in English, please: “The biggest sign that shows me how culture and sentiment are changing,…
This is great - It’s almost as impressive as the “GOS” written for Atari 8-bit running on 6502 at 1.79 MHz. Visually it’s almost identical but has a nicer font. The specs are somewhat similar with 16 task slots,…
Wow if a page ever needed reader mode, this would be it… Light grey on white !nice
One workable approach is for AI to conduct a viva voce exam with each student: after the student answers a question on a topic, the session prompts with another question which digs deeper. This goes on for say 8-12…
One thing I’m wondering is whether we need an open source set of technical patterns and libraries for dealing with this changing traffic mix. Millions of small sites and creators don’t have the ability to design their…
Someone should put this somewhere. In a book or a poster. On a LinkedIn post for managers
It’s true that “zen of” is bolted onto many topics… it’s a tired cliche to suggest “simplicity” when things are complex. Does it help or is it faux spirituality? I’ve enjoyed reading the comments here and I think…
I remember when Steve Jobs stood on stage and complained about Flash, how he hated its dominance of the free web, how it was a heavy and proprietary technology that prevented mobile devices from participating. His…
I was hoping this article would conclude with, “and the C language spec in K&R says THIS which is the correct answer”. Apparently not. So the appendix in K&R is ambiguous? And yet we use ++ so often! I can see people…
Brilliant. Love the tech-disrespect and the “right to repair”!
At Redmond, there was also the Patterns & Practices group (P&P) that tried to make sense of the dev products, and built extra libraries “to show customers how to use them”. They followed the bouncing ball of the…
Strange days we live in. Python and C++? What about a line of bash: tr -s '[:space:]' '\n' < file.txt | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn I’d like to know the memory profile of this. The bottleneck is obviously sort which…
Does not render correctly on iOS (mobile Safari)? It’s a fixed Desktop view and you can’t pinch to zoom as needed. It takes effort to prevent mobile users like this! Do others get this experience?
Once you were familiar with occam you could see deadlocks in code very quickly. It was a productive way to build scaled concurrent systems. At the time we laughed at the idea of using C for the same task