anon91831837

NOR gate logic, like NAND and NOT/AND/OR gate logic, are functionally-complete.

Combinational logic examples:

- NOT gate -> N-input (N >= 1) NOR with all inputs tied together to the input

- N-input OR gate -> N-input NOR gate with a NOT gate at the output

- N-input AND gate -> N-input NOR gate with a NOT gate in front of each input

- Bonus - sequential logic: S-R latch -> 2x 2-input NOR gates with one each of their inputs tied to the other gate's output

Reminds me of Pascal having dependent types like

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      age: 18 ... 130;

If you wanted to command, let's say $5-8 megabucks per year conservatively, I would sell the idea of self-programming systems. Automating software development to not need as many humans and implement prototype systems more rapidly is a business holy grail because it could significantly reduce the need for as many developers and their relatively large salaries. It will happen eventually, it's just a matter of time and who's going to profit that's the question. Furthermore, as automation intensifies over time, there will be overall fewer jobs but their salaries will continue to increase if they are related to automation and further reduction of jobs. If I were an AI researcher, I would be in self-programming systems, insist on patent assignment and consider forming a startup to deliver it as a hybrid cloud/on-prem SaaS... this would be the most obvious path to get rich from it.

Yes, it's a terrible, second-stringer attitude. Curiosity and obsession are a couple of the key differentiators between a workaday jobber in it for the money (like many who flocked to tech in the dot-com times) and a badass. TBH, if someone's only in it for the money, they're wasting their life in the wrong field when they could be doing something else such that their morale and satisfaction would be greater.

Remember the 2010 Ducommun 737 NG (-600 to -900) scandal? Boeing subcontracted key structural components to them to be CNC machined, instead they were crudely hand-fabricobbled and out-of-spec, but Boeing management ordered them installed anyhow. Furthermore, when a Boeing blue-ribbon panel reported its findings, they were ignored. As a result, several aircraft fuselages have broken up on hard landings and runway overruns, killing several passengers. In the past, aircraft fuselages remained intact in similar situations. There are an unknown number of substandard airframes flying around that have the potential to spontaneously break up in heavy turbulence, accelerated fatigue damage, hard landings, and runway overruns. If the flying public and professional pilots were smart, they would avoid aircraft designed, manufactured, or overhauled within the past 20 or so years because of the pervasive, systematic deficiencies introduced by regulatory capture. Older aircraft, if maintained properly, are demonstrably safer until regulators get back on the ball to insist on depth and breadth of safe, proper engineering and manufacturing.

A friend of mine had a Whipple procedure but it ruined his quality of life (he couldn't eat almost anything) and he died not long after. He wasn't even into his mid-40's, CMU alumnus and worked on XEmacs.

Immuno-oncology and fasting are the future, but polychemotherapies still have their uses.