Feynman was on the original Thinking Machines team; Connection Machine was a proto-GPU
sytelus · x · 2026-10-09
- Fun fact from sytelus: Feynman was part of the original Thinking Machines team, which made a T-shirt depicting a neural network on what may be the first accelerator; he wore it to conferences and no one ever recognized it.
- Quoting MParakhin: the Connection Machine was ahead of its time — a massive 1-bit "processor" array running shader-like code, effectively one huge GPU (he admits the analogy is imperfect).
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