Month: August 2026

Gene Amdahl was a computer engineer in the purest sense of the word, having architected the legendary System/360 at IBM and pioneered other mainframe technologies at a series of his own enterprises. Amdahl was in the graduate physics program at the University of Wisconsin in 1950, and along with fellow graduate student Charlie Davidson proposed…

Last night I was on my laptop (a MacBook Pro M1 from 2022) and I noticed that it was running extremely hot. It was a combination of a Twitch stream in the background and a few shopping sites in browser tabs playing media that combined to create a bunch of CPU cycles going to waste…

Thomas Schelling was an American political economist, who received his doctorate from Harvard in 1951 after writing his dissertation mostly at night while helping to implement the Marshall Plan in Europe. He went on to a career in the faculties of Yale, Harvard, and the University of Maryland, College Park, while also working with the…

The Lindy Effect is a good place to restart Eponymy in August. This project originally began in August of 2016 and ran for four straight Augusts until I ran out of steam, got crushed by 2020, and got further crushed in 2021. I had thought about migrating it from Facebook posts to a proper blog…