Guido van Rossum

Can the relay just feed on itself?

I don't think I got to the final solution, but it was fun that I could still do a little bit of problem solving and thinking at that level.

Yeah, I feel I sort of covered this middle layer of the technology stack where it sort of peters out below the level of NAND gates.

And at the top, I sort of, I lose track when it gets to machine learning.

Maybe, maybe not.

Yeah, I mean, it's possible.

I mean, if you think of human consciousness, if that's even the right concept.

It's interesting that sort of we have this super parallel brain that does all these incredible parallel operations like image recognition.

I recognize your face.

There's a huge amount of processing that goes on in parallel.

There's lots of nerves between my eyes and my brain.

And the brain does a whole bunch of stuff all at once because it's actually really slow circuits, but there are many of them that all work together.

On the other hand, when I'm speaking, everything is completely sequential.

I have to sort of string words together one at a time.

And when I'm thinking about stuff, when I'm understanding the world, I'm also thinking of everything like one step at a time.

And so we've got all this incredible...

parallel circuitry in our brains.

And eventually we use that to simulate a single threaded, much, much higher level interpreter.

How is it built?

Yeah.