Mike’s Tube Computer MK3 packs 460 vintage vacuum tubes into a working 8-bit machine that makes computing visible.

“Building tube computers has become an addiction, this is my third!” Mike writes on The Tube Computer, the site where he keeps notes on his vacuum tube computer. His first one ran on May 28, 2021, ...

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Key TakeawaysOn the All-In podcast, Martin Shkreli said quantum computers will never beat NVIDIA’s GPUs at AI. By his count, GPUs spend 99.

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