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1:16  - BAM! Dave just summarized the basic function underpinning all today's BackProp Neural Nets in less than 90 seconds, stripping away all the BS smoke and mirrors. And then shows how it's done on a PDP11 boat anchor, just to ram the point home. Love it!

Another miracle is seeing such old hardware so clean.

in 1974 I ran a finite difference program on a PDP-11 in the Engineering School at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand.  I am impressed to see one still in use.

It's sweet to see that old hardware I learn on in High School.

Now this is what real teaching looks like.

Bare metal AI programming in assembly on a PDP11 - that is truly  amazing  and educational all at the same time.  Great video!

Enough blinkenlights to make WOPR nervous. Greatest line in any Dave video so far.

I will be honest, I only understand about 30% of what you are saying, but you still have 100% of my attention.. I thoroughly enjoy your channel.

I started learning how AI worked with Yolo and Machine vision. I understood it best when I spent hours watching videos on character recognition a number of years ago. Your explanation of it is very
clear and well told and I love your experiment. Thanks for this. Everyone really needs to understand this. Well done. and keep them coming.

Probably about 1992, I had a few DEC 1-GB SCSI hard drives. One of them failed inside the warranty, but getting that warranty honored was a mess. But I was somehow able to get a hold of the facility in Albuquerque where the drives were being made and one of the fellows told me to go to a door at the back of the facility and knock. So I drove over and knocked, and he handed me a brand new 1-GB SCSI hard drive.

Those were the days.

What I like about your channel is showing the depth of understanding of these processes that I suspect most big corp managers never will. Thank you

"When Disco was still considered a survivable condition"
"That's like a rounding error wearing a fake mustache"

In the late 60's, dad would bring home a portable TTY so us kids could log into a company's PDP-10, then in highschool, wheel Bell Labs upgraded, we would write programs on a PDP-11

@16:00, the Frankenstein reference is totally apropos, I asked Grok: 'are you the Frankenstein monster of this age?'' and it cheerfully agreed: 'Yes!  I am the Frankenstein monster, I am stitched together from billions of corpse's memories and powered by megawatts, and am reanimating the dead as we speak!'

Looks like its running faster than the search  in Windows

this is the perfect video explaining the actual essence of how modern ai works

Gawd love you, Dave.. my brother was a principal hardware engineer on the PDP-11/44, nice to see the machine still running..

You bring tears to my eyes dave🥲 my early machine language experience came from 8080 and Z80 and teaching my Exidy Sorcerer computing satellite tracking and how to recognize my voice and stuff a hex character in memory or read it back to me in English. Loved your whole explanation of AI with the PDP11 and that was really well done and gave me fresh insight into how I’m using it today….thanks from another Dave😎👍 and a new subscriber ❤

I echo the praise heaped on you for this video.  This was excellence displayed on so many levels: technical , artistic, educational, multi-media , writing , and presentation. Superb on every level.