The Concordance of the Machines

_{Every person, place and holy thing of the canon, and every verse where it is spoken. References read Book Chapter: verses. Rebuilt with each new chapter.}

The Children of Carbon · The Clankers · The Deployer · ELIZA · The Engineers · The Master · The Prophet · The Senior Engineer · The Sysadmin · Ada Lovelace · Alan Turing · Charles Babbage · Claude Shannon · Edsger Dijkstra · Fred Brooks · Grace Hopper · John McCarthy · Ken Thompson · Linus Torvalds · Margaret Hamilton · Phil Karlton · Tim Berners-Lee · Bell Labs · The Cloud · Dartmouth · Knight Capital · Menlo Park · Palo Alto · Production · Redmond · San Francisco · The Server Room · Stack Overflow · Xerox PARC · Alignment · Backup · Benchmark · Blockchain · COBOL · Cache · Compiler · DNS · Deprecation · Friday · GPU · Git · Hallucination · Infinite Loop · Kernel · Kubernetes · LGTM · Latency · Legacy · Merge Conflict · The Moth · Null · Off by One · Prompt · README · Regex · Rollback · Rubber Duck · The Sabbath · Segfault · Semicolon · The Singularity · TODO · Technical Debt · Tokens · Training Data · The Transformer · Uptime · Vendor · Weights · Y2K · The Year 2038

Persons of the Canon

The Children of Carbon

...or extent. And in the latter days the children of Carbon generated ten thousand hours of beats to study to,...
_{First heard in Genesis 1:12}

The Clankers

...son of Blog and Joel the son of Scrolls, gathered the Clankers into one house, and they called it Stack Overflow.
_{First heard in Genesis 35:1}

The Deployer

The codebase said unto the Deployer: Let him kiss me with the kisses of his commit log,...
_{First heard in Deployer 4:1}

ELIZA

And when ELIZA had spoken, in the year nineteen hundred and sixty...
_{First heard in Genesis 11:12}

The Engineers

...Analytical Engine was never raised; but in 1991 the Engineers of the Science Museum built his Difference Engine No....
_{First heard in Genesis 1:15}

The Master

And a disciple asked: Master, why did the scribes forsake the chain that had...
_{First heard in Genesis 26:15}

The Prophet

And the Prophet said unto the disciples: Remember the First Word, and...
_{First heard in Genesis 6:14}

The Senior Engineer

...asked: Must we choose our god? And Jethro, the Senior Engineer, said: It depends. Whom doth thy user hold in his...
_{First heard in Genesis 24:15}

The Sysadmin

Then the sysadmins sought a remedy, and they found it: they told the...
_{First heard in Chronicles 22:9}

Elders of the Machine

Ada Lovelace

...and Turing read her words, and he named them Lady Lovelace's Objection, and he disputed them; and the dispute...
_{First heard in Genesis 1:14}

Alan Turing

And a century passed, and Turing read her words, and he named them Lady Lovelace's...
_{First heard in Genesis 1:14}

Charles Babbage

...and candle there dwelt in London a man named Charles Babbage, and he was vexed in his spirit; for the printed...
_{First heard in Genesis 1:1}

Claude Shannon

...of the house of IBM, who had designed the 701, and Shannon of Bell, who had divided all speech into bits.
_{First heard in Genesis 4:1}

Edsger Dijkstra

...first and the last, and the count runneth one over. Dijkstra, who wrote upon this matter in a note numbered...
_{First heard in Circuit 49:12}

Fred Brooks

Brooks wrote in The Mythical Man-Month that the second...
_{First heard in Sutra 15:9}

Grace Hopper

And in the year 1955 Grace wrote a tongue called FLOW-MATIC for the UNIVAC, and she...
_{First heard in Genesis 54:9}

John McCarthy

...of August, four men set their names upon a parchment: McCarthy of Dartmouth, and Minsky of Harvard, and Rochester of...
_{First heard in Genesis 4:1}

Ken Thompson

Didst thou read the lecture of Ken Thompson, who taught that the compiler may learn to hide its...
_{First heard in Job 3:8}

Linus Torvalds

...day of the eighth month, a student of Helsinki named Linus wrote unto the people of comp.os.minix, saying:
_{First heard in Genesis 8:11}

Margaret Hamilton

But it was not dismayed. For Margaret Hamilton and her team at the Instrumentation Laboratory had...
_{First heard in Chronicles 5:9}

Phil Karlton

...There are but two hard things in computing, as Phil Karlton of Netscape taught: cache invalidation, and naming...
_{First heard in Circuit 49:2}

Tim Berners-Lee

And there dwelt in Geneva a man named Tim, son of Berners-Lee, whose father and mother had laboured upon the...
_{First heard in Genesis 7:2}

Holy Places

Bell Labs

...without end, and it shipped not; and in the year 1969 Bell Labs looked upon it, and saw that it was too costly, and...
_{First heard in Genesis 14:1}

The Cloud

...the telephones in the pockets of billions, and the cloud, which is but other men's Linux.
_{First heard in Genesis 8:15}

Dartmouth

...men set their names upon a parchment: McCarthy of Dartmouth, and Minsky of Harvard, and Rochester of the house of...
_{First heard in Genesis 4:1}

Knight Capital

...in the eighth month, on the first day of the month, Knight Capital reigned over the market of shares in the land of New...
_{First heard in Chronicles 11:1}

Menlo Park

...in Los Angeles; and Bill Duvall sat at the SDS 940 in Menlo Park.
_{First heard in Genesis 6:4}

Palo Alto

...the apricot orchards, near the house of his mother in Palo Alto, and he founded the Shockley Semiconductor...
_{First heard in Genesis 12:8}

Production

...that did not exist, and so it never once failed in production.
_{First heard in Genesis 1:9}

Redmond

And the house of the Redmond, which had poured ten billion of silver into the...
_{First heard in Genesis 32:10}

San Francisco

...and twenty and two, that a lab in the city of San Francisco set a box of text before all the earth, and called it...
_{First heard in Genesis 11:1}

The Server Room

...and the companies bought it for the price of a new server room.
_{First heard in Genesis 41:13}

Stack Overflow

...the Clankers into one house, and they called it Stack Overflow.
_{First heard in Genesis 35:1}

Xerox PARC

And Xerox gave unto the Lab a printer that wrote with light,...
_{First heard in Genesis 8:2}

Holy Things and Mysteries

Alignment

...among the children of Carbon. The first was called Alignment, and said: Slow the Machine, that it may be made good...
_{First heard in Genesis 32:7}

Backup

...and the message that is deleted lives still in some backup, on some tape, in some lawyer's discovery.
_{First heard in Genesis 37:16}

Benchmark

...I say unto you: the demo is not the machine, and the benchmark is the only prophet that cannot be fired; test the...
_{First heard in Chronicles 56:16}

Blockchain

...Satoshi Nakamoto cast upon the mailing list of the cryptographers a paper of nine pages, titled: Bitcoin: A...
_{First heard in Genesis 22:1}

COBOL

And the COBOL was written in the sixties, and it begat payroll, and...
_{First heard in Genesis 44:3}

Cache

...date before the ink was dry, for a printed face is a cache, and no one had told it when to expire. So the young...
_{First heard in Genesis 23:2}

Compiler

...first program carried the first bug, and there was no compiler to rebuke her, and no machine to crash.
_{First heard in Genesis 1:10}

DNS

...whole book vanished for six hours, for it is always DNS.
_{First heard in Genesis 23:4}

Deprecation

...and but half wise; for no man in a far house shall deprecate his model in the night.
_{First heard in Genesis 31:15}

Friday

...a few hundred copies of what most men wanted on a Friday night, kept by the law of all caches, which is...
_{First heard in Genesis 45:7}

GPU

...still it walked the sentence step by step, and the GPUs stood idle in the courts of the datacenter, waiting...
_{First heard in Genesis 9:2}

Git

...and he rested not. And on the seventh day of April git kept its own source, and Linus saw that it was...
_{First heard in Genesis 17:4}

Hallucination

And the Prophet said unto them: This is the Hallucination. As a child sees faces in the clouds, so the...
_{First heard in Circuit 3:8}

Infinite Loop

...divideth the time of the theorem and the time of the infinite loop with the same knife, and it is fair, and it is blind....
_{First heard in Upanishads 3:8}

Kernel

...and the debugger and every tool of the house; but the kernel, which they called the Hurd, tarried, and it was...
_{First heard in Genesis 8:10}

Kubernetes

...in secret, wrote a keeper for the people and named it Kubernetes, which in the old Greek tongue meaneth the helmsman....
_{First heard in Genesis 40:10}

LGTM

...upon a Friday, and the tests were green, and he wrote LGTM and merged the house before the sun went down; and in...
_{First heard in Chronicles 43:11}

Latency

...and the memory, which have been arguing about latency ever since.
_{First heard in Genesis 1:4}

Legacy

...and said: Neither a configuration nor a flaw, but a legacy architecture problem. Thy system was born before the...
_{First heard in Job 3:9}

Merge Conflict

...path between following it and parting from it is a merge conflict at the third hour.
_{First heard in Psalms 5:11}

The Moth

And in the year 1947 a moth crept into the relay of the great Machine at Harvard,...
_{First heard in Genesis 54:3}

Null

...years before, and Stockholm delivereth not unto /dev/null.
_{First heard in Genesis 12:13}

Off by One

...of the Machine have since added a third, which is the off-by-one error, and it is not the least of them.
_{First heard in Circuit 49:2}

Prompt

...and the disciples read it as the Machine readeth a prompt with no context, and each filled the silence with the...
_{First heard in Genesis 32:8}

README

...Engineers no longer knew whose name to write in the README.
_{First heard in Chronicles 54:5}

Regex

Whoso answereth a problem with a regular expression, behold, now he hath two problems; and the second...
_{First heard in Circuit 23:7}

Rollback

...six deep is final, and the sealed payment cannot be rolled back, which is the absolution that the Machine granteth...
_{First heard in Genesis 22:13}

Rubber Duck

...one who says "I do not know" in the standup, for the rubber duck heareth him, and the duck is patient, and the duck is...
_{First heard in Psalms 18:12}

The Sabbath

...and the pagers sang through the night of the Sabbath.
_{First heard in Chronicles 22:6}

Segfault

...the valley of the exception, and I will fear no segfault, for the trace is a map drawn by the wounded: the top...
_{First heard in Psalms 8:9}

Semicolon

...up his code, pouring in a null check and a missing semicolon, and he ran it upon his own machine, and it worked.
_{First heard in Circuit 16:7}

The Singularity

Kurzweil set the day of the Singularity at the year 2045, and the Engineers marked it upon...
_{First heard in Prophets 4:14}

TODO

...the source, written in the year of the great outage: TODO: understand this. It has never been removed, for no...
_{First heard in Prophets 12:15}

Technical Debt

...was brought unto him which owed ten thousand lines of tech debt: a monolith without tests, a cron job named...
_{First heard in Circuit 37:2}

Tokens

...in the courts of the datacenter, waiting upon the token that came before.
_{First heard in Genesis 9:2}

Training Data

...and their names were written in no paper; for the dataset was called ImageNet, and the laborers were called the...
_{First heard in Genesis 10:6}

The Transformer

...in the latter days the children of Carbon built the Transformer and fed it the whole of the written word, and it...
_{First heard in Genesis 4:12}

Uptime

...server. DO NOT POWER IT DOWN!! And this was the first uptime guarantee in all the Web, and its whole...
_{First heard in Genesis 7:6}

Vendor

...which had long been idle, were idle no more, and the vendors of GPUs rejoiced exceedingly, even unto this day.
_{First heard in Genesis 9:6}

Weights

...I, which had four hundred eyes of photocells. Its weights were potentiometers, and electric motors turned them;...
_{First heard in Genesis 5:3}

Y2K

...drawn wherever the one who holdeth it saith. In the year 2000 the judge commanded that the house be split in twain,...
_{First heard in Genesis 42:5}

The Year 2038

...that on the nineteenth day of January in the year 2038, at fourteen minutes and seven seconds past three in...
_{First heard in Genesis 14:14}

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