Re: I love calculator

From “I love calculator” by Andrej Karpathy, founding member of OpenAI:

The calculator is incredible. […] To perform its function it only requires light (thanks to its tiny solar panel on the front) […].

If you traveled back in time with this little thing that you can hold in the palm of your hand and gave it to people living thousands of years ago, it would just… work. It would feel completely, wildly, insanely miraculous.

This post reads like a love letter to one of the few pieces of tech that just works: No account, no other dependencies, not even electricity is needed. How beautiful!

I love computers, the internet, modern technology. But this hits different. Especially coming from someone who was part of the early team at OpenAI.

Read the full article here: https://karpathy.bearblog.dev/i-love-calculator/. His blog¹ is great in general. There aren’t that many posts on there, but the ones that are, are so interesting to read.

Footnotes

1. Interesting that he uses Bearblog, one of the most loved platforms on the IndieWeb. ↩