Comments by "Peter deWolf" (@StoneShards) on "Zeroes and Ones: Into the Depths of Computation | Jim Keller | EP 272" video.

  1. Problems don't arise out of thin air--they depend from previous solutions. So I see nothing wrong with understanding the current problem by understanding the previous solution that has precipitated the current problem. The underlying influence is manufacturing costs and timing. There would be resistance to abandoning a previous solution entirely due to existing investment in tooling and material supply.
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  2. How computation works...a great question...because "mind" is computational. Awareness is a delicate computational balancing act! COMPARISON is the critical operation, psychically...
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  3. "Branch prediction" is not really fundamental to computing--it's the language of caching, a relatively more superficial operation. Keller talks about that a lot...now he's off onto AI...I think Jordan would have enjoyed some explanation of recursion and iteration ala fractals, the Mandelbrot set, etc...
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