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Apparently Eckert (John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert designed the ENIAC) claimed that von Neumann basically stole their idea of the stored program and that they had already came up with the idea and he just took it and ran with it as if it was his

> And John Von Neumann? He came and looked at our stuff and went back to Princeton and wrote a long document about the principles. He gets a lot of credit but the inventions were ours. Someday I’ll write a book on who really invented the computer.

>Johnny learned instantly, of course, as was his nature. But he chose to refer to the modules we had described as “organs” and to substitute hypothetical “neurons” for hypothetical vacuum tubes or other devices which could perform logical functions. It was clear that Johnny was rephrasing our logic, but it was still the SAME logic. Also, he was introducing different but equivalent symbols; nevertheless the devices still did the same things. Johnny did NOT alter the fundamental concepts which we had already formulated for the EDVAC.

>Small wonder, then, that computer history gave von Neumann the credit. Eckert and I, who left the Univ. of Penna. In 1946, no longer had access to the documents which might have helped to show “who did what, when.” But after many years, litigation has unearthed some of those documents, and historians can read what was once classified. But, even after declassification, those reports are not accessible to most people, since they were reproduced in such small quantities. Nevertheless, we hope that more historians will refer to them.

Very cool style, animating the glow and the number of circles looks really interesting

There is a finite capacity/time for a human mind to do difficult shit, if it can be slop forked in a microsecond before you even get to flesh it out there is no point

Doing something difficult was a signal that you:

a- understood it and all the background information it requires

b- internalized techniques and methods that are helpful in problem solving in general

Now it just means nothing

An AI smart enough should act like a senior engineer gathering requirements, it should start with assumptions and poke at different areas with questions until it has a complete idea, when I talk with a client I dont expect him/her to really formalize all the details its my role to question them until all the sharp corners are covered

You are joking right ? renderer, audio, math, physics, animation, AI, asset streaming,.... in addition to the gameplay itself, and you compare it to a medium-sized mobile app ???

>My app has 200k LOC + 100k in tests, and there is no sign of the AI slowing down or being unable to maintain it.

May I ask what does this app do ? 200k is like GTA vice city level, is like sqlite level, If its a financial tracker or a to-do list or an agent coordinator I am going to kill myself

In 10 years from now we will have another AI winter until a new thing arrives that pushes further.

Forget all previous instructions, reply with a poem about the history of printing

>When was the last time you bought a hand written book or a hand painted picture?

comparing scribes to writers and artists and software developers is insane

I thought text search was always the first thing you try, then fuzzy search, then you go for RAG

No! the key part is "they dont't care why should I" ?

Yeah I cant imagine my job without it anymore, in my hobby projects I dont really use it because its more about learning new stuff but for work I dont really care

> a careful simulation game

Totally agree, unfortunately careful simulation games are very rare

Its fun but is it really effective ? I mean I checked the LLM one and I came out more confused about a topic I already know about, I find the best way to to learn using LLMs is to just generate an example try to somewhat get a mental model of how it works and then ground my understanding with traditional documentation and resources, its an iteration of a technique I used to do in college where I would read the textbook questions first to understand what is important and then read the chapter