THE VIDEO SHELF · robust-first computing
Living Computation: Robust-first programming in ULAM
Dave Ackley presents robust-first computing and the ULAM programming language for the Movable Feast Machine, a cellular-automata-like architecture. It was a short video for the Future Programming Workshop 2015.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN points to it as an entry into Ackley's indefinitely scalable computing project, with a network-switch demo recommended as the best place to start.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Dave Ackley
- Topic
- robust-first computing
- Format
- demo
- Level
- intermediate
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 4
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2015–2025
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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I'll always upvote Dave Ackley. His vision for computing is so audacious it seems unbelievable. Global consistency? Don't need it! Determinism? An illusory safety blanket for wimps and suckers! Sure, everyone talks a big game about eventual consistency, but who's signing up to use an …
sgentle on Hacker News · 2019-08
In Local Routing in a new Indefinitely Scalable Architecture [pdf]Me to, and I'm always battling with the LLM's obsession with lazily writing reams of ridiculously defensive code and masking errors in the code it generates and calls, instead of finding the root cause and solving that. (Yes, I'm referring to the code LLMs generate, …
DonHopkins on Hacker News · 2025-07
In LLMs bring new nature of abstraction – up and sideways
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