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The other day I was randomly browsing in a bookstore and stumbled by Empire of the Sum: The Rise and Reign of the Pocket Calculator. As I was flipping through its pages, a realization dawned on me with some force: I... love... calculator. I don't mean as a physical device that you would wish to purchase and use today. I mean as a product of technology and a symbol of a kind of philosophy. Behold: The calculator is incredible. When operated with your fingers, it becomes a plugin for your brain, extending its computational capability in the domain of arithmetic. It makes you smarter. But even more incredible is the means by which this happens. The calculator is a fully self-contained physical artifact that has an almost zero "dependency footprint" on the rest of our technosphere. To perform its function it only requires light (thanks to its tiny solar panel on the front), and/or batteries, which are a universal commodity. You may choose to purchase the calculator with one single exchange

I love calculator Andrej Karpathy blog #3 I love calculator Sep 8 2024 The other day I was randomly browsing in a bookstore and stumbled by Empire of the Sum: The Rise and Reign of the Pocket Calculator . As I was flipping through its pages, a realization dawned on me with some force: I... love... calculator. I don't mean as a physical device that you would wish to purchase and use today. I mean as a product of technology and a symbol of a kind of philosophy. Behold: The calculator is incredible. When operated with your fingers, it becomes a plugin for your brain, extending its computational c

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