The audience of this website is disproportionately aware of the Therac-25 compared to the general public. For the obvious reason, engineering, but also geographically: The Therac-25 being a North American incident that affected Canada and the US. Whereas Theryc is a French company.

While I do agree with your point, as a Swede not even born when the incidents happen I still knew about it, was brought up in a computer science class.

If I have cancer then whether to trust the radiation machine due to the name is certainly a choice I can make, but you get to own your own priorities in that case.

I only commented on the case, nothing else.

I feel like I have heard about this in a million different management anecdotes in my corporate trainings about management stuff/QA.

> The Therac-25 being a North American incident that affected Canada and the US

CGR who provided the accelerators and basic PDP11-based computing platform were a French company.

> Whereas Theryc is a French company.

I have been a Citroën enthusiast for about 30 years. I love French cars.

I have repaired lots of Valeo electronics modules for vehicles.

I'm not sticking my head in a French fucking particle accelerator.

There are asics for ai. They're called gpus / tpus.

My brain initially parsed the title as an obituary title and I was really sad for a moment.

In my experience, a grad student hour is treated as free :(

You never applied for a grant, have you?

It was ahead of its time!

When I was in grad school I tried getting my hands on a phi, it seemed impossible.

Xeon Phi was so cool. I wanted to use the ones we had so much... but couldn't find any applications that would benefit enough to make it worth the effort. I guess that's why it died lol.

Stock price by itself is meaningless. Instead what you want is market cap (number of shares x share price).

"He noted that taking ivermectin and fenbendazole to treat the cancer did not work"

The Jeff Goldblum virus one?

I believe fans have provided a retroactive explanation that all our computer tech was based on reverse engineering the crashed alien ship, and thus the arch, and abis etc were compatible.

It's a movie, so whatever, but considering how easily a single project / vendor / chip / anything breaks compatibility, it's a laughable explanation.

Edit: phrasing

That isn't actually a fan theory, it was actual plot that was cut from the film for time.

Still dumb but not as dumb as what we got.

Reminds me of how in the original the matrix plot the humans were being used for compute power, but the studio execs decided audiences wouldn't understand it.

They must have thought it's _so_ clever that the screw/bit is their logo.

Nintendo has done this exact thing with the GameBoy: https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/q/11736

If you mess with the logo, the console locks up during boot. If you don't, you're violating the trademark.