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Richard Feynman Lecture -- "Los Alamos From Below"
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- Presented by Richard Feynman
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History and cultureHistory of computingPeople who shaped computing
Richard Feynman shares anecdotes about his time working at Los Alamos during the Manhattan Project, including early computing efforts and safe-cracking.
There are quite a few copies of this Feynman lecture floating around out there, but most end prior to the question from the audience. After the lecture, a guy in the audience asks Feynman about his safe-cracking stories and Feynman goes on for about another ten minutes relating three different stories on his safe-cracking while at Los Alamos National Laboratories. Enjoy!Why it's here
2 people recommend thisWhat people say. Recommended as a fascinating historical talk about the early days of computing and problem-solving at Los Alamos.
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On “Making a computer”
It depends what you want it to compute, making one from transistor level (with discrete components, assuming you dont have access to semiconductor fabs) is far easier if you want it to do things like boolean operations and basic addition and subtraction for 2 to 4 bits.
The larger the scope of your functionality, the quicker it will become unmanageable. I highly recommend Feynman's Los Alamos from below talk and the book The idea factory on the founding of Bell labs, to see how much incredible progress has been made.