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While AI encodes words as hash codes, humans interpret words through their semantics.

Good morning

Mandelbrot pancake.

~2012 must have been like a crazy time. Neural networks were considered nonsense by most people. Hinton, LeCun and Bengio were the amongst the very few people who kept it all alive for decades. Alex Krizhevsky, a mad coding genius and a socially aloof kid, shows up to Hinton's

Our beloved 6502 was released 50 years ago! ❤️🎉 The first samples of the 6502 CPU were released at the WESCON trade show in September 1975. Designed by a small team led by Chuck Peddle at MOS, its low cost drove the personal computer revolution of the 70s and 80s.

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Silicon Graphics O2 workstation was introduced in October 1996. It used a single MIPS microprocessor, 32 MB of base memory (expandable, at the time, to an eye-popping 1 GB), and a 17” CRT monitor supporting 1280×1024 at 75 Hz. Later processor options included the R5000,

The DEC VT100 terminal, released by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) in 1978, was a general-purpose terminal that could interface with various mainframes and minicomputers via an RS-232 serial interface. The VT100's innovation was to replace custom logic circuits with a

DEC VMS was a fierce rival to Unix and directly shaped the development of Microsoft's Windows NT. In 1988, David Cutler, one of DEC’s top engineers and a designer of VMS, was hired by Microsoft to lead the development of Windows NT. Cutler brought several VMS engineers with him,

The Kconfiglib package on PyPI is no longer actively maintained, so I forked it to extend. The new interface is closer in look and feel to the Linux kernel, while several bugs have been fixed and full compatibility with the Kconfig language is preserved. github.com/sysprog21/Kcon…

When asking coding questions

I'm developing a hardware-accelerated Nyancat animation for VGA display, implemented in Verilog RTL and simulated with Verilator. It supports real-time scaling, ROM-based frame storage, and a two-stage rendering pipeline for smooth animation. github.com/sysprog21/vga-…

Wait till people find out that all of computer science is an abstraction of electrical engineering, which is an abstraction of fundamental physics.

There's no source code of the original Pong, at least not in a software sense. No ROM exists, there's no CPU. Code? None. In 1972, Pong was created by Atari using Transistor-Transistor Logic (TTL). The game logic is hardwired. The closest to the source code is the blueprint.

"Make it work, make it right, make it fast." -- Kent Beck

It’s the world’s first #CPU! Almost 54 years ago, on November 15th 1971, #Intel launched the first commercial single-chip microprocessor. With the following tweets, let’s jointly explore the greatest milestone in #computing #history after the invention of the #transistor!

I ported Doom, the legendary first-person shooter, to render directly in terminals using the Kitty graphics protocol, featuring BASE64-encoded 4 KB chunks with SIMD optimization. github.com/jserv/kitty-do…

To give context on age, Grace Hopper began computing at 38, completed the first compiler at 46, helped shape COBOL at 53, kept developing COBOL for the Navy in her 70s, retired from the Navy at 80 & then became a consultant for the Digital Equipment Corporation. v/Peter Cooper