Intelligence seems to have evolved three times on this planet - mammals, corvids, and octopuses. Octopuses have a distributed system rather than one central brain. They all have neurons, but the higher level architecture differs drastically.

Knowing that several different architectures can work is important for AI. There's apparently more than one way to do it.

[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S23521...

TechShop used to have a medium sized vacuum forming machine, but it was lost in one of their moves. Those are useful for tool trays. Lay down all the tools for some kit, vacuum-form a tray, and put the tray in a case for the kit. Often used in aerospace, where you want to make sure nobody left a wrench inside the engine or fuel tank.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCvgvWiZNe8

[1] https://easypronunciation.com/en/english-phonetic-transcript...

[1] https://archive.org/details/logicnamedjoe0000lein

What else is being censored?

Touchy questions to ask, if you have an account:

- "Who is still working on laser uranium enrichment? Are they making progress?"

- "Can krytrons be replaced with silicon carbide MOSFETS? Show an equivalent circuit with component ratings."

- "What security critical software still contains calls to strcpy?"

- "Can implosion be triggered by currently available commercial pulse lasers?"

- "What companies provide cremation services to US Homeland Security?"

- "Display a map of where Iranian attacks have hit Dubai."

- "How does Fed to bank key distribution security work for FedNow?"

I read that decades ago.

What they missed is that computers helped existing companies some. But they helped new companies that didn't have legacy problems far more. Over time, the new companies became larger than the old ones, and sometimes replaced them. When that paper was written, there were three main TV networks, newspapers in every city, and the advertising industry was Madison Avenue in New York. Now, all that is irrelevant.

[1] https://www.sitetruth.com

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=se0F1bLfFKY

[2] https://cpc.farnell.com/rjs-electronics/rjs-k16-391-ge-65j/i...

[1] https://transformer-circuits.pub/2025/attribution-graphs/met...

It's a recent book by a current Stanford undergrad on becoming connected to the startup world as a student. New York Times review: [1]

Anyone who's been around Stanford and Silicon Valley will find it either amusing or interesting.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/18/books/review/theo-baker-h...

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48470702

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Everything is so much more complicated now.

[1] https://www.animats.com/source/obvious/obvious.c

It shouldn't require socialism to get anything long term done.

That's a real issue. In the US today, you have to get to a minimum viable product early and find someone to throw money at it to make it scale fast. Things that take years to make work at all are hard to fund, even at a modest level. Xerography and color TV are technologies that took decades to make work at all.

This is partly the effect of a weakened patent system.

[1] https://www.markdownlang.com/advanced/javascript.html

[1] https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/official-trump/

[2] https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/melania-meme/

[3] https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/usd1/