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2026-02-18 15:17 UTC
@jonathanhogg@mastodon.social @michael@toot.mynameismwd.org @jarkman@chaos.social I once asked a very senior HPC developer at Red Hat what keeps him up at night and he said, paraphrasing and pulling from memory that's about 15 years old now, "we haven't created new computer science since the 1960s and I fear we'll exhaust what we know before we discover anything new," and I think about that a lot these days.
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@PeterLudemann@mathstodon.xyz 2026-02-26 04:13
@thatsten@hachyderm.io The 1960s were mostly math because most CS was done on blackboards (as one of my profs put it) because access to machines was very limited. Also, there was a "Cambrian explosion" of ideas in this new field - and after that, evolution slowed down. @jonathanhogg@mastodon.social @michael@toot.mynameismwd.org @jarkman@chaos.social