I'm back in business, and looks like I'm right in time for your shoutout - thanks! Lots of Chad Jippity and other news while I was gone. Just wrapping up a catch-up post about it all!
I accidentally found a crazy story about scaling and related power needs for AI. It's got an Eric Schmidt comeback and 3d printed rockets for AI in space.
I meandered too much getting to the interesting bit, but you can skip to the end
Were you old enough to encounter and interact with bulletin board systems (BBS). These preceded the internet. For me it was 6 years before the internet/WWW that I started using modems to check on all sorts of things. I guess Compuserve is the closest thing at the time. Fun times with like-minded geeks. Now every Tom, Dick, and Harry is "out there" messing up a good thing. :-)
No, but I did have tangential friends who were more involved... I think my dad even set us up with a modem, but I was probably too young to appreciate what was happening. Or too fixated on other things, maybe.
Have you written about the bulletin board days yet?
Hmm, I really should write that experience up. It was the days when microcomputers first started creeping in on mini and mainframe behemoths. I first saw an Apple at my cousin's house in the late 70s. I was blown away! Unfortunately, my parents never "got it". :-)
Yeah, write it up! I figure lots of folks experienced the stuff I'm writing about, but it's still useful stuff to record it for posterity. Your stuff goes way deeper, and fewer have written about those times - because so few of us got to experience them!
Beware the Binary
It's no fun unless the pitchforks are out.
It's binary all the way down.
I'm back in business, and looks like I'm right in time for your shoutout - thanks! Lots of Chad Jippity and other news while I was gone. Just wrapping up a catch-up post about it all!
Excellent. I am looking forward to reading that and catching up myself once I catch my breath! Looooooong week.
I accidentally found a crazy story about scaling and related power needs for AI. It's got an Eric Schmidt comeback and 3d printed rockets for AI in space.
I meandered too much getting to the interesting bit, but you can skip to the end
https://open.substack.com/pub/wirepine/p/am-i-hot-or-not
That was pretty cool to read, even the meandering! I think Schmidt is spot-on. People are underestimating this by a longshot.
Were you old enough to encounter and interact with bulletin board systems (BBS). These preceded the internet. For me it was 6 years before the internet/WWW that I started using modems to check on all sorts of things. I guess Compuserve is the closest thing at the time. Fun times with like-minded geeks. Now every Tom, Dick, and Harry is "out there" messing up a good thing. :-)
No, but I did have tangential friends who were more involved... I think my dad even set us up with a modem, but I was probably too young to appreciate what was happening. Or too fixated on other things, maybe.
Have you written about the bulletin board days yet?
Hmm, I really should write that experience up. It was the days when microcomputers first started creeping in on mini and mainframe behemoths. I first saw an Apple at my cousin's house in the late 70s. I was blown away! Unfortunately, my parents never "got it". :-)
Yeah, write it up! I figure lots of folks experienced the stuff I'm writing about, but it's still useful stuff to record it for posterity. Your stuff goes way deeper, and fewer have written about those times - because so few of us got to experience them!