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February 16, 2022 Join live stream (4PM-6PM Pacific 2/16/2022) https://ee380.stanford.edu Speakers: Dmitri Kyle Brereton, Danny Sullivan EE380 will meet online today, 16 February 2022 at 4PM Pacific Speakers: Dimitri
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While aew porn sites to be legally required to verify user's age? Presumably so access to porn will be prohibited for the young. Why is such a ban a good thing? Who benefits from such a ban? Why is keeping sexual knowledge hidde
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So methane control is a significant handle to control global warming. It is not a solution but it will buy time if we globally "burn" methane to COP2. See BlueDotChange.org.
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Fred was a friend and a colleague. Smart and enthusiastic. A creative and versatile engineer. PhD under Edward McCluskey at Stanford on building reliable and fault tolerant systems. A good manager. A teacher. A pilot and flying instructor.
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Fred Clegg (HP, AWS, etc.), dead at 77, 12/25/2021(legacy.com)
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"Simulator", the term, is misused in this post. In common usage, an implementation of a programming system is not called a "simulation". For example, the"cross-platform Visual Basic clone" mentioned by rgovoste
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We can restore the earth's climate if we want to -- and we should (part of the Stanford EE380 Computer Systems Colloquium) David Henkel-Wallace is a 30+ year valley veteran, hands-on technologist, and entrepreneur. He has worked on eve
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We can restore the Earth's climate if we want to – and we should(ee380.stanford.edu)
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This roundtable is part of the Stanford EE380 Computer Systems Colloquium. The first single chip microcomputer is generally acknowledged to be the Intel 4004. Stan Mazor who, along with Frederico Faggin and Ted Hoff, was one of the archit
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Microcomputers at 50 (Roundtable 1/19 4PM Pacific livestream)(ee380.stanford.edu)
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Understanding Software Dynamics (Addison-Wesley Professional Computing Series) 1st Edition by Richard L. Sites ( https://www.amazon.com/Understanding-Software-Addison-Wesley... ) This is a recent book and I have not completed
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This article is a hatchet job by a self-declared "skeptic" intended to convince the reader that a popular Swedish book about personality types, Surrounded by Idiots, is without scientific basis or value. The language of the artic
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Yum! The patent and intellectual property rights issues show how problematic and ineffectual our current laws are. Anyone have any thoughts as to how to equitably restructure our concepts and rights about intellectual property.
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I have not read the book, but I did look at the TOC. It seems remarkably trival and not very useful. I am a great believer in teaching algorithms and algorithmic thinking to everyone, but this book seems too simple-minded.
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Rather than teaching coding, you might try to teach algorithmic concepts. For example, iteration, abstraction, sorting, comparison, search, recursion, partitions, and so forth. These are tools which can be used without recourse to a compu
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David Quammen's book Spillover is informative about the role of animal infections and the pandemic.
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An email exchange with one of the 8086 architects informs me that no version of the 8086 design had base and bound hardware. Vivid and detailed as my recollection is, I appear to be remembering something that never happened.
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I believe the 8086, as originally designed and implemented, had a segmented address space with base and bounds registers in the style of the CDC 6600. This rudimentary but effective memory management approach was scrapped by Intel to make t
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Jim Warren has died(web.stanford.edu)
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Duskin died a while ago, but his clothing (and that of Marsha Fox) was truly revolutionary.
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I certainly respond to the wabi-sabi aesthetic and philosophy for physical objects. How it applies to computer software and systems is not obvious in part because we have not evolved good visualization and aesthetics for complex multi-laye
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Kudos and thanks to Dom Hodgson.
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Leap seconds are a bad idea and should be abandoned. Computing the time between events by subtraction should work. And while we are at it, dropping time zones and daylight saving time would also make sense.
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Paul Allen's Living Computer Museum in Seattle had a wide range of vintage computers. Since his death, the museum has been closed. Last I checked, the fate of the collection is up in the air. They had a number of working older machi
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Dynamic models are useful ways to explore complex systems. For example: Human and nature dynamics (HANDY): Modeling inequality and use of resources in the collapse or sustainability of societies S Motesharrei, J Rivas, E Kalnay Ecological
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Check out Joseph Tainter's Collapse of Complex Societies. He looks at a large number of historical complex societies that collapsed and suggests that they collapsed when the cost of the complexity exceeded its utility. A very appealin
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Well said. It may be that we should do nothing and accept our fate. In the geological frame of reference we are just an instant from extinction.
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5th-9th grade Girls Math JAM Festival 6/26(app.mlsend.com)
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Heathkits were great. I assembled a number of them for my stepfather and for myself. My favorite was the multi-band short wave radio receiver which I used to listen to sputnik. A neighbor enlisted by stepfather's aid in troublesho
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The Java language is proprietary to Oracle. Oracle lost their lawsuit with Google with the SCOTUS finding that Google's use of some declarative code was "fair use". Oracle's license requirements and its litigious history

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