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by leoc 10mo ago
The Stanford linkrot bandits have struck again I’m afraid.
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Ship comms: how do they work?–lightning talk by Matt Kulukundis [video](youtube.com)
8 points by leoc 10mo ago|0 comments
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by leoc 10mo ago
The UK's National Musuem of Computing has a nice demonstration video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGEAPVCuwvY . Apparently delay-line memory also went on to have wide use in colour TVs before the arrival of cheap se
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by leoc 10mo ago
38:37 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZLpbhsE72I&t=2317s in Jay Forrester's "The Design Environment and Innovations of Project Whirlwind" talk ( https://www.computerhistory.org/collection
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by leoc 10mo ago
The Digital Library contains a lot of older material which predates the Web and has often never been put online anywhere else: old Joint Computer Conference papers and so on.
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by leoc 10mo ago
And they spent years resisting pressure for open access before that: this has been in the air for a long time.
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by leoc 10mo ago
Uncharacteristic of the IEEE to fail in its core mission like this by missing an opportunity to take money from someone ...
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by leoc 10mo ago
> Areas like social psychology have serious sample size problems, so might benefit, but this field also has serious measurement and reproducibility problems, weak experimental designs, and particularly strong ideological bias among the r
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by leoc 10mo ago
I'm not an expert, but my hunch would be that a similar Big(ger) Science approach is also needed in areas like nutrition and (non-neurological) experimental psychology where (apparently) often group sizes are just too small. There are
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by leoc 10mo ago
It's also nakedly hypocritical behaviour on Stallman's part. Hoping (whether in vain or not) that GCC being Too Big to Fork ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6810259 ) will keep people from having access to t
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by leoc 10mo ago
I doubt it’s affecting his work, but my impression is that if anyone is owed money from the use of their personal likeness in AI image generators (as a source for generic figures, not as someone specifically requested by the prompt) then Pi
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by leoc 10mo ago
That I remember, but I have to work with the material I am given …
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by leoc 10mo ago
Douglas Adams would point out that this is just why the rats already trained us to play DOOM.
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by leoc 10mo ago
If I were a startup, I would simply achieve product/market fit instead of failing. (yes, /s)
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John McCarthy and colleagues at the Stanford AI Lab volleyball game (1972) [video](youtube.com)
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by leoc 10mo ago
(Also, if you can afford the subscription money it makes sense to reward, not punish, ACM for making its own material open-access.)
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by leoc 10mo ago
Ah, yes: meta-level model collapse. Very good, carry on.
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by leoc 10mo ago
One of those many cases where X = X.
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by leoc 10mo ago
I'm not sure about the Perl-specific claims here, but it is amusing how pervasive "on one or more occasions, I got a dopamine release after managing to struggle through the horror and misery of X: now I'm convinced that X i
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by leoc 10mo ago
I mean, the panning was pretty impressive at the time as well. In Sutherland's 1994 "Bay Area Computer History Perspectives" talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_cevebLO-A&list=PLKTTWvMgeg... he points
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by leoc 10mo ago
The first demonstrator here is Timothy E. Johnson, not Ivan Sutherland. Johnson did the "Sketchpad III" work extending Sketchpad into 3D which is demonstrated from 11:30 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6orsmFndx_o&
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by leoc 10mo ago
Sutherland started programming on the TX-0, which was widely accessible on the MIT campus, but Sketchpad was definitely done on the big gun, the TX-2, which was still inside Lincoln Laboratories. (Sutherland's uncle-in-law https:&#x2F
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by leoc 10mo ago
It’s the eternal cycle: all social problems really are tech problems in disguise; so it’s unfortunate that all tech problems are social problems in disguise. ;)
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Human Input to Computer Systems: Theories, Techniques and Technology (2011 WIP)(billbuxton.com)
2 points by leoc 10mo ago|0 comments
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by leoc 10mo ago
Steve Wozniak was supposedly invoved in the design of ADB, but it's so hard to confirm that that I'm starting to wonder if it's a myth. The closest to confirmation I can find is a reference to "the ADB, created by Steve
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by leoc 10mo ago
In the words of Douglas Adams, there are those who say that this has already happened.
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by leoc 10mo ago
Already, a solid 2026 Ig Nobel contender.
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by leoc 10mo ago
If anything there’s likely plenty of work for body shops like IBM in reviewing and correcting AI-generated work product that has been thrown into production recently.
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Hans Moravec: When will computer hardware match the human brain? (1997)(web.archive.org)
2 points by leoc 11mo ago|1 comments
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by leoc 11mo ago
A well-known or once-well-known article from what seems to me (I'm not an expert) to be roughly the beginning of the current wave of AI progress and optimism. This seems like an appropriate moment to think about it again, especially si

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