Format Online paper / PDF "GPU computing helped make transformer models practical, contributing to the technological foundations of modern AI systems." View Source Location PART 3 - THE THIRD AXIS CHAPTER 16: CONNECTING THE SPECKLES Don’t Look Down Source title Attention Is All You Need Source authors Ashish Vaswani; Noam Shazeer; Niki Parmar; Jakob Uszkoreit; Llion Jones; Aidan N. Gomez; Łukasz Kaiser; Illia Polosukhin Source year 2017 Confidence high Importance high
Format Web Page "Graphics processors developed for video games also became important hardware for cryptocurrency mining and machine learning." View Source Location PART 3 - THE THIRD AXIS CHAPTER 16: CONNECTING THE SPECKLES Don’t Look Down Source title NVIDIA Corporation Form 10-K for Fiscal Year 2018 Source authors NVIDIA Corporation Source year 2018 Confidence high Importance mid
Format Web Page "Cypherpunks challenged dependence on centralized institutions by advocating cryptographic privacy and private electronic transactions." View Source Location PART 3 - THE THIRD AXIS CHAPTER 16: CONNECTING THE SPECKLES Don’t Look Down Source title A Cypherpunk's Manifesto Source authors Eric Hughes Source year 1993 Confidence high Importance mid
Format Web Page "Banking networks connected ATMs to central computers, enabling automated transactions beyond physical bank branches." View Source Location PART 3 - THE THIRD AXIS CHAPTER 16: CONNECTING THE SPECKLES Don’t Look Down Source title The ATM Source authors IBM Source year 2025 Confidence high Importance mid
Format Online paper / PDF "Amadeus developed a global distribution network linking airlines, travel agencies and consumers through computerized search, pricing and booking." View Source Location PART 3 - THE THIRD AXIS CHAPTER 16: CONNECTING THE SPECKLES Don’t Look Down Source title Amadeus Corporate Responsibility Report 2011 Source authors Amadeus Source year 2011 Confidence high Importance high
Format Online paper / PDF "Galileo was among the global computer reservation systems that connected travel agencies with computerized flight-search services." View Source Location PART 3 - THE THIRD AXIS CHAPTER 16: CONNECTING THE SPECKLES Don’t Look Down Source title Computational Complexity of Air Travel Planning Source authors Carl de Marcken Source year 2003 Confidence high Importance mid
Format Web Page "SABRE borrowed real-time network computing techniques developed for SAGE and applied them to airline reservations." View Source Location PART 3 - THE THIRD AXIS CHAPTER 16: CONNECTING THE SPECKLES Don’t Look Down Source title Sabre Source authors IBM Source year 2025 Confidence high Importance high
Format Web Page "Jay Forrester and the SAGE project helped integrate radar information into a real-time picture of North American airspace." View Source Location PART 3 - THE THIRD AXIS CHAPTER 16: CONNECTING THE SPECKLES Don’t Look Down Source title SAGE Source authors IBM Source year 2025 Confidence high Importance high
Format Web Page "The GPS technology behind pocket navigation took modern form through satellite-navigation research and the NAVSTAR program established in 1973." View Source Location PART 3 - THE THIRD AXIS CHAPTER 16: CONNECTING THE SPECKLES Don’t Look Down Source title Miniaturized GPS receivers Source authors DARPA Source year 2026 Confidence high Importance mid
Format Web Page "After the military coup, Cybersyn’s development stopped and its unfinished components were abandoned or destroyed." View Source Location PART 3 - THE THIRD AXIS CHAPTER 16: CONNECTING THE SPECKLES The Romans and the Knife Source title Cybernetic Revolutionaries Source authors Eden Medina Source year 2012 Confidence high Importance high
