This bit from The Art of Doing Science and Engineering resurfaced in my notes.
Lesson: no access to global knowledge = system components become composable, layerable, horizontally scalable.
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This is… not even close to how modern computers work though. They strive mightily to look ahead and predict code flow.
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They don’t strive, they have been programmed to look ahead and optimize bit storage and access following the same logic Gordon outlined. They’re still perfectly logical and explicable machines (although ML will cloud this in probabilities and histories).


