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Von Neumann! I read that he advised the military that the best place to ignite the atom bomb was in the air, not smacking it into the ground. It causes much more destruction that way... And his pet computer was called MANIAC...

Good on you that you are NOT a serial processor cultist

ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 1y ago

yeah, what's funny is that CPUs and GPUs have got so complex that there is actually concurrency problems and they had to build mutual exclusion and atomic message passing systems to make them work

one of the reasons why i'm an AMD maxi is because they built a SAN into the Ryzen CPUs, they are actually a very simple individual unit with a concurrent savvy - as they call it "system area network" which is just a fancy name for a high speed memory bus extension, right in one chip, so i know that concurrency is an issue when you get into the 7nm range EVEN WITH the tiny scale the light speed limit gets shorter and shorter in actual distance between segments of the die because of how much more paths there is

so it's quite funny

i choose a concurrent savvy programming language, and run it on a CPU that is built with concurrency logic in it, using the PCI-Express bus, which is also concurrent friendly, and someone tells me i'm a Von Neumann cultist

bitch peas, i am spidermonkey

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gojiberra 1y ago

Spidermonkey managing webs of interdependency. I asked Grok to expand on your post and it's quite a cool lesson early in the morning.

I just petted a little monkey in Honduras yesterday. It was a funny moment, because she locked eyes on me in the cage and there was like instant understanding, "hi, fellow mammal, I know what you need is a pet." So when she wrapped up getting pets from someone else, she came over to me and gave me a shoulder to rub.

It's strange that their brains are so tiny but the affection stuff just seems to be a base program loaded onto the mammal brain (maybe others too, crows I've heard are very intelligent).

I didn't know there were monkeys here, sloths as well and some other mammals I have never seen before.