Hollerith cards on the old Vax machine. University of Houston.
Phi Slama Jama. Hakeem and Clyde the Glide.
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Back in the 60’s I was allowed out of afternoon high school to take courses at UCLA. One day I was helping the grad student who was the “section leader” for my course (tensor algebra techniques) (I have no idea of the official name) in cleaning out a dirty old closet space in the old computer building (no longer exists). Underneath everything, greasily stuck to the floor in the back corner, was an old sign reading something close to this:
If you ever even think (because fire, earthquake, world war, dying tape drive making sobbing sounds) about turning off the IBM 650, first write your Last Will, go to Confession, and kiss your girl goodbye because we will find you and kill you.
[It was signed by somebody or other we could not trace but looked damn official to me, albeit yellowed and greasy.]
We turned it in and it was put up on the wall of the Engineering Department office, but had vanished when I last visited back in 2005 or so.
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What is an AI Agent?
The first 3-4 minutes of this YT has a good description.
ralph
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A software humanoid robot as explained by the video in the first three and a half minutes
The Captain
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I agree, Leap.
I’m starting to view PLTR as a potential Agentic Platform. As my understanding increases… I’ll adjust that POV.
ralph
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I started buying too early caught up in the initial hype. I took my loss and put PLTR on ignore until I discovered the Peter Thiel connection. This December I started using PLTR to sell covered calls with excellent results. Stocks loved by growth investors are great covered call candidates.
The Captain
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Sam Altman: AI agents are AI systems that can do work for you … Independently.
Ie. Humanoid Autonomous Software Robots.
See the first 1 minute or so:
ralph
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