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The Air Computer
I’m delighted to share a post from one of my favourite Substack writers, Jordan Taylor, otherwise known as Incautious Optimism. Jordan covers a wide range of engineering topics from Hypersonic Flight to Nuclear Power and much more, with a u...
The Innovative HP Computer Behind a Hedge Fund Pioneer
A Machine for All Markets?
Edward O. Thorp is one of those people who really should be better known. His Wikipedia entry describes him as ‘an American mathematics professor, author, hedge fund manager, and blackjack researcher’ before elab...
Where will RISC-V be in 20 Years? Poll Results
All the way back in August 2023, in the midst of a series of posts on the RISC-V architecture, I ran a reader poll on the future of the architecture, with the following introduction:
As we’re in the middle of a short RISC-V series, I tho...
RISC-V : What Really Matters
Readers may have seen the recent blog post from Dmitri Grinberg RISC-V: They Should Have Known Better which sets out, at some length, his criticisms of the RISC-V architecture. Here’s a sample:
Now, about those compressed instructions. L...
Apple and AI : Siri the Early Years
One of the reasons for studying technology history is to look for recurring patterns: characteristics of either the technology itself or of firms that are built around it that are repeated time and time again.
These can be particularly use...
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