John von Neumann, every mention

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▶ 28:53 Marc Andreessen Um, there was actually a debate, there was a debate in the nascent computer world in the thirties and early forties when they were just giving stuff to start to work, and there was, there was a whole school of thought that said this, what…

▶ 2:43 Marc Andreessen It's a, you know, we like to say the, the, the sort of computers up until now have been what are called von Neumann machines, which is to say they're deterministic computers.

▶ 1:00:33 Marc Andreessen It's a, you know, we like to say the, the, the sort of computers up until now have been what are called von Neumann machines, which is to say they're deterministic computers.

▶ 32:14 Ben Horowitz Comment on that original question about how to change the firm there that the film, I think that, um, and it's a minor thing, but it would have been great to have, uh, John von Neumann as a character for a couple of reasons when he's just… 16 times in the scene
▶ 42:37 Ben Horowitz And, and yeah, everybody, everybody, including John von Neumann had communist friends.
▶ 54:36 Marc Andreessen To your point, the moral implications of this, right, and this goes back to, this goes back to the, what, the apparent craziness of, uh, von Neumann, you know, advocating a first strike, but, which again, I, I don't support, but, um, you…
▶ 1:16:49 Ben Horowitz How different is the Los Alamos project if John von Neumann doesn't accept the invite from Oppenheimer?
▶ 1:19:18 Ben Horowitz Recruiting John von Neumann, um, you know, as well as, you know, every great physicist, um, who, who wasn't a Nazi.

▶ 8:23 Marc Andreessen Um, and so there was, there was a debate early on, um, about whether the computer should be basically a linear instruction following mechanism, which is sort of what we now call a von Neumann machine, or whether the computer from the…
▶ 30:26 Marc Andreessen You know, just as an example on the correctness thing, like one of the things you can do now with ChatGPT is you can install the Wolfram Alpha plugin, and then you can basically tell it to cross-check all of its math and science statements…

▶ 2:42 Marc Andreessen Which is sort of the classic von Neumann machine, you know, deterministic way, and, and the, the whole problem with writing software in the old model is, like, computers are hyper-literal.

▶ 14:55 Steven Sinofsky The guy's in his twenties, and he's hanging out with von Neumann, with Morris, with, with Einstein.

▶ 19:42 Joel Mokyr Kahneman and Tversky are trained psychologists, and they're sort of coming to economics from the outside, and John Nash, who won the Nobel Prize in economics for his contribution to game theory, comes to it from mathematics, and so they…

▶ 20:12 unnamed speaker And so, over the next, call it five, 10 years, expect this tool chain for software development, which is sort of the first big break since we've had from the original von Neumann machines, ah, that's happened, and, um, there's gonna be…

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