Trying to read enough to get to the point where I know as much about the modern history of chips/AI as I do about WW2-era physics
High-level books like Genius Makers by are great, but I'd also love to go deeper. I'm a primary source guy when possible
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try Gordon Moore’s papers!
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R.I.P. to Gordon Moore, cofounder of Intel and so much more. His biography is very worth a read: amazon.com/Moores-Law-Sil
Also grateful to Stanford and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation for digitizing so many of his papers: searchworks.stanford.edu/view/10626780
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On AI, Herbert Simon’s autobiography has a good discussion of his early work, reactions etc
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The Man Behind the Microchip, biography of Robert Noyce, is a good one. I got to Silicon Valley in the 90's and heard stories from engineers I worked with who had been there from the beginning. The book on Noyce both rang true with those stories and filled in some gaps for me.
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Couldn’t agree more with this piece
When I pick stories for FreakTakes (whether it’s the early era MIT crew or Edison’s ‘boys’) I’m often trying to communicate just how small group an endeavor much of the science that drove this country was
It still can be
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"When all you have is a Manhattan Project, everything looks like a bomb."
@timhwang on the siren song of BIG SCIENCE
macroscience.org/p/the-seductio
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Are there any areas of science where the best memorizers/finders of information have an extreme leg up in doing research?
For example, I don't get the sense this means much in algorithms research, but it seems at least moderately important in certain areas of bio
Thanks!
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Maybe just sell it based on outcomes
Delian: Our state-of-the-art manufacturing process can carry out crystallization with negligible effects from microgravity on the mesoscopic scale
Customer: oh wow! How do you manage that?
Delian: That’s uh…that’s IP sorry.
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Pic from reminded me of an excerpt from FreakTakes MIT series
A big sticking point that prevented an MIT/Harvard merger in the 1920s is MIT wanted its students to be useful to industry above all else. coddled its students at the expense of their learning
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The excellent safety record of commercial aviation was only achieved incrementally, iteratively, over decades:
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