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Related: this project used the Univac to make a Bible concordance in the 1950s. Wonderful photos in the article: https://mashable.com/2015/09/27/univac-bible/#UcmBZsV9ikqV
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https://www.metafilter.com/
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He's already started on it: https://github.com/albertz/PyCPython
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Fifty years ago it was widely expected that everyone would have access to computers, but not that everyone would have their own. Instead, there would be massive centralized "computer utilities" accessed through terminals. ... O
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In The Autobiography of Malcolm X , he tells how he learned to read and write by copying out, by hand , the entire dictionary he got from the prison library, copying a page a day. (It's in chapter 11 of the Autobiography ).
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Algorithmics by David Harel. Not a textbook, but a more popular Scientific American level treatment. Very readable and accessible but quite rigorous also - Harel's a noted computer scientist. I recall there was a slightly differ
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It's deliberate. In his book The Character of Physical Law , Feynman discusses some differences in how physicists and mathematicians approach math.
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http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/shivers/diss-advice.html
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In addition to influencing Lorenz and Licklider, the LGP-30 was also the machine first used by Kemeny and Kurtz at Dartmouth. Their experience with its interactive programming and their discovery that undergraduates could be enthusiastic a
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This machine made ingenious, economical use of the technology available in the mid 1950s. Only 16 instructions. The ALU used all diode logic. The CPU only used a few tubes for flipflops to store control state. The rotating magnetic drum
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Yes, both the motivation[1] and the format[2] of these books is very effective and quite unique. It's a shame no one else has carried on in this style for more recent languages. In addition to Java, C, and C++, Winston also wrote On t
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There was a FORTRAN compiler for the IBM 1401 that had 63 passes (they called them phases). See this paper from 1965: http://ibm-1401.info/1401-IBM-Systems-Journal-FORTRAN.html
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There was a burst of this in the 1950s and 1960s, inspired by interest in/anxiety about science and math prompted by Sputnik, the space race, and nuclear war. So these are period pieces but you still might enjoy them -- I did: Fantas
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Comprehensive tutorial for novices: web, command line, Python, Django, git, hosting, deployment ... http://tutorial.djangogirls.org/en/
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The technique described here differs a great deal from traditional chemical NMR. That NMR is a spectroscopy technique where the signal includes contributions from huge numbers of atoms. Molecular struture is inferred from the spectra meas
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Lynn Conway is another notable transgender woman in tech, with influential accomplishments in computer architecture and VLSI design, and later as a DARPA research administrator and academic. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2
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"No one is bored, everything is boring." -- K-Punk
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This instance from 2012 that I bookmarked had 80 replies. Many of the replies provided several, or many, links. I wonder how many still work? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4928762
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You might be thinking of Fomenko's New Chronology, presented in a series of books that were popular in Russia in the 1990s. It sounds very far-fetched: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Chronology_(Fomenko)
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This was discussed at length here several years ago (2015). This Ask HN has 140 comments, many quite long: Ask HN: What was Usenet's ultimate demise? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9987679
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A post on HN two years ago, "A therapy chatbot for depression" [0] [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14504306 Kenneth Colby, a Stanford professor, had something like this in the 1970's and 80's. A
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Joan Didion, Annie Dillard, Marilyn Robinson. Somebody upthread mentioned Camille Paglia. If you include journalism, politics, criticism, and humor in a recognizable voice that reveals the author's personal take on life, there are ma
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This is what courses are for. The instructors choose the technologies and instructional materials (books or websites or...) and present them in a meaningful order. It doesn't matter so much which technologies and materials they choos
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> ... It looks like men relegated women to tedium. See the papers by Mary Ellen Wilkes I cited in this thread. Many HN readers would consider her work to be quite creative and innovative. BUT it must be said in those days, almost everyo
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Mary Ellen Wilkes [1], one of the women featured in the NYT article, wrote several reports and papers about her work on the LINC laboratory minicomputer, including [2] and [3]. From [2]: "LAP6 is an online system running on a 2048 word
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Several examples inline, and links to more, here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16471019
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Simply Scheme by Brian Harvey is sometimes called a prelude to SICP. Many of its early exercises use text instead of numbers.
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Ah yes, I see. Something like this has been done with Python. It was surprisingly difficult, I thought. Python without an operating system https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9453677 Porting Python to run without an OS
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Here is boot into emacs implemented by making emacs the Linux init program, "Emacs standing alone on a Linux Kernel" https://www.informatimago.com/linux/emacs-on-user-mode-linux...
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This is cynicism. The original poster's complaints are not cynicism -- they are legitimate dissatisfaction and unhappiness with exploitation and manipulation. Legitimate dissatisfaction turns to cynicism when its sufferer conclud

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