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What I Worked On February 2021 Before college the two main things I worked on, outside of school, were writing and programming. I didn't write essays. I wrote what beginning writers were supposed to write then, and probably still are: short stories. My stories were awful. They had hardly any plot, just characters...
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As well as HN, I wrote all of YC's internal software in Arc. But while I continued to work a good deal in Arc, I gradually stopped working on Arc, partly because I didn't have time to, and partly because it was a lot less attractive to mess around with the language now that we had all this infrastructure depending on i...
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I was puzzled by the 1401. I couldn't figure out what to do with it. And in retrospect there's not much I could have done with it. The only form of input to programs was data stored on punched cards, and I didn't have any data stored on punched cards. The only other option was to do things that didn't rely on any input...
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With microcomputers, everything changed. Now you could have a computer sitting right in front of you, on a desk, that could respond to your keystrokes as it was running instead of just churning through a stack of punch cards and then stopping. [1] The first of my friends to get a microcomputer built it himself. It w...
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Computers were expensive in those days and it took me years of nagging before I convinced my father to buy one, a TRS-80, in about 1980. The gold standard then was the Apple II, but a TRS-80 was good enough. This was when I really started programming. I wrote simple games, a program to predict how high my model rockets...
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"Though I liked programming, I didn't plan to study it in college. In college I was going to study p(...TRUNCATED)
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"AI was in the air in the mid 1980s, but there were two things especially that made me want to work (...TRUNCATED)
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"There weren't any classes in AI at Cornell then, not even graduate classes, so I started trying to (...TRUNCATED)
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"For my undergraduate thesis, I reverse-engineered SHRDLU. My God did I love working on that program(...TRUNCATED)
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"I applied to 3 grad schools: MIT and Yale, which were renowned for AI at the time, and Harvard, whi(...TRUNCATED)
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