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The oldest architecture in computing

by werner@allthingsdistributed.com (Dr. Werner Vogels)

Sep 8, 2026·~5 minutes·1 chapter

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The oldest architecture in computing

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A GPU burns 700 watts and hundreds of thousands of tries to learn Pong. A human brain does it on 20 watts in a handful of attempts. So what can the oldest architecture in computing teach us about where agents and memory are headed?

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