Richard Feynman and the Connection Machine (1989)

quirkot

banging on the door like a madman where's the clock? where's the clock we all donated money for? tell us about the clock you cowards!

lang4d

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48915709 one of the Connection Machines is in Jurassic Park. Really neat article!

icedata

Danny Hillis was an MIT colleague of a friend of mine. Didn't know until now that Connection Machine had Darpa funding.

pjmlp

Star Lisp would be great for the modern heterogeneous computing landscape, and being compiled.

ryandvm

I'm a huge fan of Feynman and his autobiographies - some of my favorite books. There are a number of YouTube videos that purport to be Feynman's audio lectures, but they're actually AI generated readings of his script. Against my better instincts I listened to a couple and it was surreal experience. On one hand, they were actually pretty decent simulacra and I loved hearing Feynman's voice and mannerisms; but on the other hand, they... weren't... real. What am I even listening to? We are in for a weird future.

anonymousiam

Written in 2017, but always a good read.

tanseydavid

Feynman is my notion of what a "Chad" really is.