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Jim Keller: Moore’s Law, Microprocessors, Abstractions, and First Principles

Lex Fridman Podcast

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The Building Blocks of Computers

The building blocks of mathematics at some level are things like ads and subtracts and multiplies but the space mathematics can describe is I think essentially infinite. So when you go right down and look at the computers it's and it organes to add some multiplies. Like a friend Raja Ghidori said like every order of magnitude changes to computation. Fundamentally changes what the computation is doing. But we have a million X on computation and I don't know the reference. The relationship between computational let's say intensity and ability to hit mathematical abstractions has not been described yet.

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