Dave Plummer

So I thought I'd write a little manual for them basically.

I think it's that single-minded focus and the ability to reduce a problem and to be ultimately curious about what's inside stuff.

That's been an obsession for me my whole life.

What's inside?

I got to take my mom's oven apart because I got to know how the flip clock works.

And I think that's a good habit to have if you're going to be a programmer.

Well, it's very close to working.

I think now it's tweaking the model size and layers and stuff like that to get it to learn past the one threshold.

But, you know, it's a couple thousand lines of Lua and it's a couple thousand lines of Python and they all interact and they all work.

So it's like 95% of the work is done now.

It's tuning hyperparameters and hoping for the best.

Yeah, my goal was to be able to beat me.

That's tough.

It is, but lots of games now are, you know, they play them better than humans, but maybe not games as complex.

The PDP-11 stuff, I'm trying to get at what's called an RA-82 drive.

It's the big 14-inch monster that spins at 3,600 RPM and sounds like a washing machine.

And then I'll find the controller card and write the code and integrate it into the driver and try to get that all working.

What kind of code are you trying to run on it?

I'm going to have to get the driver stack to work.

So I have to incorporate the driver for it into the kernel.