Hey Matt, I know your videos don't get a bunch of views - but I always really appreciate when you upload and I get notifications in my feed from you :) Thanks for providing these glimpses into the future past!
@@johnjennings8085I know that this comment is a year old, but the fact that you misspelled "college" as "collage" in your apparent insult to the intelligence of college students is just perfection
@@artistbervucci1716 Smart chicks in sweaters are hot. Not a single stupid Tic Toc dance in sight. The girl can design missiles what can miss tic toc do? UAAAH selfies on instagram and terrible dancing on tic toc. Real POTATO level stuff right there folks.
@@obsidian9998 This was around a decade before Fortran and years after mechanical TVs became obsolete. It's also not in any way a programmable computer in the modern sense. Although, I suppose you could rig up a target firing game like "Angry Birds", much like the 1947 CRT amusement device did. It would be rather slow though, as these machines were almost entirely mechanical!
No, it's an entirely special purpose (mechanical) analog computer with no branches or predication. See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Differential_analyser Although, there is probably some way you could make it achieve Turing-completeness by drawing a clever pattern then connecting the input & output together somehow. People can make almost anything Turing-complete given enough time.
Odd how we have smart phones but we have gotten dumber. It took 50 years to make the smart phone but now people cannot read and write cursive, do basic math ,or count change. People stare at mindless crap on tic toc all day. Yet they can't do basic tasks without a youtube video. You have a tool that spans most all of the information of the world yet you don't use it. What are you going to do when you can't afford to buy it on amazon and it breaks, you won't be smart enough to fix it? Now you cannot afford to pay to have it fixed. People better gain some self reliant skills or it is going to get rough. Gas has doubled in price along with food. The rest is on its way. Why buy it if you can build it ? I have more time than money, think about it.
I would imagine that there are many intelligent people that can't or don't read/write cursive. There is no use for cursive, especially when 95% of your written correspondence is performed over a computer.
@@vividvault9285 Not writing by hand also severs the hand eye coordination it eliminates much of the thinking one does in order to write. The less you use your mind in constructive ways you start to lose intelligence. For example at my last job my coworker was dumbfounded because i was doing the production totals by hand and not using a calculator . He asked me how i did that without a calculator. It is basic adding ,subtraction and division. Using phones and computers for everything is making us dumber for doing it.
@@johnjennings8085 This is not true. There are many alternatives to writing. Writing is not an end all be all for these skills. The majority of my problem solving skills, math skills, and hand to eye coordination can be attributed to my military service, my ability to write programs and web applications, and my ability to type 80+ WPM Anyone that plays sports, works with small assemblies, does any sort of long term planning, or types for a living, can all develop these skills. But one cannot develop all of these skills from only 1 thing. You must consume variety. That variety is not required to encompass everything. This means you can develop any of these skills without 1 or more of any of the experiences I've listed above, including writing, by supplying yourself one of the billions of alternatives.
@@vividvault9285 Thats true but the more that you use your brain the better it works. Staring at a screen does not engage your brain like actually doing something whether it is writing something ,fixing something broken or making something.
Hey Matt, I know your videos don't get a bunch of views - but I always really appreciate when you upload and I get notifications in my feed from you :) Thanks for providing these glimpses into the future past!
The way this guy is talking is why people think computers have minds.
what?
Well it is smarter than most collage students today.
@@reigninfinity9263 How would it work like a mind, I don't understand?
@@johnjennings8085I know that this comment is a year old, but the fact that you misspelled "college" as "collage" in your apparent insult to the intelligence of college students is just perfection
This is so cool
It's more than cool, it's am... and wait for it... azing.
It's amazing!
@@artistbervucci1716 Smart chicks in sweaters are hot. Not a single stupid Tic Toc dance in sight. The girl can design missiles what can miss tic toc do? UAAAH selfies on instagram and terrible dancing on tic toc. Real POTATO level stuff right there folks.
@@johnjennings8085 What?
"University of California at Loce ANG-el-ess" - ;-) old timey pronunciation...
The best pronunciation :)
Also known as the "Transatlantic accent"
This thing can solve the 4th dimension apparently
I saw this on an old Science Fiction movie.
The DA was shown in operation in the movie "When Worlds Collide." Is that the one you were thinking of?
Can I game on it?
Yes, but you'll likely use a mechanical tv to compute the output. Likely fortran or older.
@@obsidian9998 This was around a decade before Fortran and years after mechanical TVs became obsolete. It's also not in any way a programmable computer in the modern sense. Although, I suppose you could rig up a target firing game like "Angry Birds", much like the 1947 CRT amusement device did. It would be rather slow though, as these machines were almost entirely mechanical!
Well you could play those very bad math games math teachers come up with
is this a Turing Complete computer?
The computer he was working on before his death was called Pilot Ace was a general purpus scientific computer.
@@miles2378 ah, still, this machine is pretty amazing
No, it's an entirely special purpose (mechanical) analog computer with no branches or predication. See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Differential_analyser
Although, there is probably some way you could make it achieve Turing-completeness by drawing a clever pattern then connecting the input & output together somehow. People can make almost anything Turing-complete given enough time.
@@colejohnson4941 Yep Charles Petzold, did a cool lecture on it that led me here :)
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that is printer lol
Where did my etch a sketch go?
It's a plotter. A printer outputs symbls.
Odd how we have smart phones but we have gotten dumber. It took 50 years to make the smart phone but now people cannot read and write cursive, do basic math ,or count change. People stare at mindless crap on tic toc all day. Yet they can't do basic tasks without a youtube video. You have a tool that spans most all of the information of the world yet you don't use it. What are you going to do when you can't afford to buy it on amazon and it breaks, you won't be smart enough to fix it? Now you cannot afford to pay to have it fixed. People better gain some self reliant skills or it is going to get rough. Gas has doubled in price along with food. The rest is on its way. Why buy it if you can build it ? I have more time than money, think about it.
I agree. It sucks to be born or live in XXI century.
I would imagine that there are many intelligent people that can't or don't read/write cursive.
There is no use for cursive, especially when 95% of your written correspondence is performed over a computer.
@@vividvault9285 Not writing by hand also severs the hand eye coordination it eliminates much of the thinking one does in order to write. The less you use your mind in constructive ways you start to lose intelligence. For example at my last job my coworker was dumbfounded because i was doing the production totals by hand and not using a calculator . He asked me how i did that without a calculator. It is basic adding ,subtraction and division. Using phones and computers for everything is making us dumber for doing it.
@@johnjennings8085 This is not true.
There are many alternatives to writing. Writing is not an end all be all for these skills. The majority of my problem solving skills, math skills, and hand to eye coordination can be attributed to my military service, my ability to write programs and web applications, and my ability to type 80+ WPM
Anyone that plays sports, works with small assemblies, does any sort of long term planning, or types for a living, can all develop these skills.
But one cannot develop all of these skills from only 1 thing. You must consume variety. That variety is not required to encompass everything. This means you can develop any of these skills without 1 or more of any of the experiences I've listed above, including writing, by supplying yourself one of the billions of alternatives.
@@vividvault9285 Thats true but the more that you use your brain the better it works. Staring at a screen does not engage your brain like actually doing something whether it is writing something ,fixing something broken or making something.
Not a single black person sight
and?
Ouch, but true.