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gonna call this quixotic engineering
the kording 6502 paper is the closest engineering has ever gotten to pure comedy I think
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also a big dose of Lindblom "muddling through" jstor.org/stable/973677
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"Teardowns" are like dissection obviously, but recognizing them as an explicitly biology style methodology shifts the aesthetics of how you proceed.
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For eg. you aren't just interested in a narrow goal like reverse engineering the BoM to estimate cost/margins, or figuring out just a mysterious working principle to copy. You're interested more broadly in the design philosophy at work and hints of how the design evolved.
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Have you looked into FPGAs at all? I haven’t checked in on the field in awhile but I remember there was some action in using them to implement genetic algorithms to evolve circuits damninteresting.com/on-the-origin-
citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/downlo
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Same here. They postdate the heyday of my interest in hardware. But from what I heard from friends who were excited about them make sound they seem like the most “biological” approach to hardware yet.
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