We live in the same world as an overclocked magic 8 ball made from Rush Limbaugh’s hollowed out skull, that runs up the light bill… named Grok… and it seems like nobody even paused. Grok sounds like a caveman name. Probably not a coincidence.
Nah, Linux Programmers are all nerds, and they started using it, which then made basically every programmer use it, but it’s way older, 1960s sci-fi novel
Grok is from the book Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein. It means to understand something so fully you can control it. In the book the main character is raised by Martians which teach him a form of meditation that involves grokking things so he essentially has magical powers over things he understands.
I doubt Elon has read it. He definitely missed the part about understanding things and is rushing for the controlling things.
We live in the same world as an overclocked magic 8 ball made from Rush Limbaugh’s hollowed out skull, that runs up the light bill… named Grok… and it seems like nobody even paused. Grok sounds like a caveman name. Probably not a coincidence.
Grok is old programmer slang for ‘understanding.’ It’s a shame Elon has subverted such a great piece of linguistic history
Nah, Linux Programmers are all nerds, and they started using it, which then made basically every programmer use it, but it’s way older, 1960s sci-fi novel
Grok is from the book Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein. It means to understand something so fully you can control it. In the book the main character is raised by Martians which teach him a form of meditation that involves grokking things so he essentially has magical powers over things he understands.
I doubt Elon has read it. He definitely missed the part about understanding things and is rushing for the controlling things.
Hmm… Might have to read that.
Pales in comparison to his bastardization of the name Tesla. He’s a modern-era edison through and through
Hey now. Despite everything, Edison was an actual inventor and actually a self-made man. Musk doesn’t have shit on Edison.