This 51 min. video interview with Geoffrey Hinton.
Archive for the ‘Computer History’ Category:
2025-01-06 PDP-1 Wiki
Interesting information about DEC’s first, the PDP-1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDP-1
2025-01-04 Elon Musk And The Twitter Acquisition
Elan talks about the Twitter acquisition. https://www.facebook.com/reel/1979473689187202/?mibextid=9drbnH&s=yWDuG2&fs=e
2025-01-01 QR Codes Explained, Plus Bar Codes
Derek Veritasium shows us how QR codes work. He pronounces the a in Veritasium like the a in tassel. https://www.facebook.com/reel/2506467346230147?mibextid=9drbnH&s=yWDuG2&fs=e
2024-12-08 Derek Veritasium – Game Theory, Which Strategy Wins
Very interesting. So iets & nuclear bombs as first example. Then after many rounds of game to see which strategy works best. https://www.facebook.com/veritasium/videos/2169334116741310/?mibextid=9drbnH
2024-12-05 Voyager’s Computers Run On 70 Kilobytes Of Plated Wire Memory
An interesting video about NASA’s Voyager spacecraft computers. https://www.facebook.com/ThePrimalSpace/videos/1223112522301454/?mibextid=9drbnH&s=yWDuG2&fs=e
2024-11-13 Elon Musk Tells About How In 1995 He Had No Money And Lived In The Office
https://www.facebook.com/moneybuilderhuboff/videos/435203759623540/?mibextid=9drbnH More info on Elon https://www.facebook.com/61566358012902/videos/918412746863853/?mibextid=9drbnH
2024-10-10 Elon Musk Unveils The Cybercab Or Robotaxi
Tesla unveils the Cybercab or Robotaxi. Musk calls it individualized mass transit. It’s projected to cost $.20 a mile, compared to $1.00 a mile for busses. https://www.facebook.com/interestingengineering/videos/1232322724701382/?mibextid=9drbnH&s=yWDuG2&fs=e Musk called the 20 passenger autonomous vehicle the Robovan, pronounced like ruh-BO-vun not like RO-bo-van. https://www.facebook.com/reel/851132957006684/?mibextid=9drbnH&s=yWDuG2&fs=e
2024-03-15 Ferranti Argus “Hearing Aid” Computer
In the “Original Series” chapter this very interesting Wikipedia article talks about the “hearing aid computer” that used the OC-71 germanium transistors which were used in hearing aids and could go only up to 25kHz clock rate. That was quite slow – tube computers could clock at 500kHz. Later models used faster transistors and could
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2024-02-05 1960s IT Guy Predicts The Future
He got almost all of it right. But at that time no one knew how portable they would become. No one knew how many more things they would be and do – telephone, camera, audio and video recorders, run hundreds of applications such as the browsers that access the Worldwide Web. Email, messaging, clock, calendar
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