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8nov2023

Intel 80386, a revolutionary CPU

Story about Intel 386 processor and how Intel starts to control the whole PC market. The interesting thing is how people in the company changed their minds and came to believe in the x86 as the main architecture of the future computer.

The gist point of the story: 386 was not the best processor on the market but it has the best timing for the features it has and good backward compatibility. As a result, it give the Intel the crown of the PC market.


Immanuel Kant—What can we know?

In other words, how we see the world is shaped by how we see and think. We can not know the world as it truly is because we can only experience it through our own senses and thoughts. Our mind filters and shapes what we can know about the world. So we must understand how our mind works. And this is what Kant’s book is about.

… a monumental bedrock for inquiries into the nature of knowledge in Science, Art and of course the current endeavors of Artificial Intelligence