woke up early, wanted to build something to visualize music in a simple way. you can choose between "concentric" and "linear" mode. what else should i add?
"With unit cost falling as the number of components per circuit
rises, by 1975 economics may dictate squeezing as many as 65 000
components on a single silicon chip.
The future of integrated electronics is the future of
electronics itself. The advantages of integration will bring
about a proliferation of electronics, pushing this science
into many new areas.
Integrated circuits will lead to such wonders as home
computers—or at least terminals connected to a central
computer—automatic controls for automobiles, and personal portable communications equipment. The electronic
wristwatch needs only a display to be feasible today.
But the biggest potential lies in the production of large
systems. In telephone communications, integrated circuits
in digital filters will separate channels on multiplex equipment. Integrated circuits will also switch telephone circuits
and perform data processing.
Computers will be more powerful, and will be organized
in completely different ways. For example, memories built
of integrated electronics may be distributed throughout
the machine instead of being concentrated in a central
unit. In addition, the improved reliability made possible
by integrated circuits will allow the construction of larger
processing units. Machines similar to those in existence
today will be built at lower costs and with faster turnaround."
It's incredible how in those few paragraphs he envisioned so many things that could be enabled by cramming more transistors in, that a half century later are still somewhat novel.
Honestly, I feel the opposite. What he imagined back then as absolutely crazy was standard only 20 years after. It is crazy how exponentials work. Wild to think where we are standing 60 years later and wild to think where we will stand in 60 years.
I guess the bit I was referring to as somewhat novel is when he referred to memory being combined with compute rather than separate - As 'compute in memory' or distributed memory and compute architectures, are recent enough. separate memory and compute still domiante, but with HBM, stacked cache, and GPUs using significantly more on die memory were now seeing some quite different architectures realized
I'm genuinely tempted to answer "The singularity happened".
A bit of an overstatement[0], but it's certainly the vibe.
The news is happening so fast now, I'm not even sure without looking it up if the second room temperature superconductor was last week or not, let alone whose latest AI is passing which exams or producing images that normal people share as they mistake them for photographs.
Hm, what device/os are you browsing on? The site should be mobile-friendly except for the account page. Also please feel free to reach out by email or discord.
Those are very good suggestions. I built it with mobile in mind but somehow I failed to get it right, yet. Will continue to work on it. Would also be nice to make a native app at some point.
