POINDEXTER FORTRAN wrote to JIMMY ANDERSON <=-

Otherwise, I'm hoping AI is like the advent of step-programmable calculators, where people didn't have to do the grunt work of
mathematics and could do the imaginative stuff instead.

I think you're on teh right track here...



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JIMMY ANDERSON wrote to POINDEXTER FORTRAN <=-

POINDEXTER FORTRAN wrote to JIMMY ANDERSON <=-

Otherwise, I'm hoping AI is like the advent of step-programmable calculators, where people didn't have to do the grunt work of
mathematics and could do the imaginative stuff instead.

I think you're on teh right track here...

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sure hope so, considering all the ai concerns nowadays and media about aipocalypses

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JIMMY ANDERSON wrote to POINDEXTER FORTRAN <=-

Otherwise, I'm hoping AI is like the advent of step-programmable calculators, where people didn't have to do the grunt work of
mathematics and could do the imaginative stuff instead.

I think you're on teh right track here...

I can't take credit for it - I had a calculus teacher in college who was enamored with programmable calculators as tools of freedom. He'd grown
up in a world where most computations were by hand, and he saw
calculators as a tool to free your mind. These were people who could
draw spreadsheets and recalculate them by hand.

We did all of our work with calculators. I had a cheap Casio FX-3600,
could program in something like 40 steps. Other people had HP-41
calculators that had a whole world of expansions, programs, and so on.

He inspired something in me where computers went from gadgets to tools.



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poindexter FORTRAN wrote to JIMMY ANDERSON <=-

I can't take credit for it - I had a calculus teacher in college who
was enamored with programmable calculators as tools of freedom. He'd
grown up in a world where most computations were by hand, and he saw calculators as a tool to free your mind. These were people who could
draw spreadsheets and recalculate them by hand.

Nice. I only had 1 college prof who liked computer (or computer-like devices).

It was a calculus class and we had to draw graphs of functions and calculate the roots. I had programmed my TRS-80 PC-4 (with only 512 bytes of RAM) do do the Newton-Raphson Technique of finding roots. He saw me using it on a test and quietly asked me about it. When I told him, he said, "cool" and walked away. I think he was impressed that a student actually USED something he taught in class.


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