"Seed Factories" WikiBook about #self-replicating factories: “a starter set of equipment intentionally designed to improve by a recursive process.”
the #seed-factories #self-replicating project is rooted at this userpage
#Video on “glasshouse vegetable production in the #Netherlands” #greenhouse #agriculture #vertical-farming
commentary on #stage0, the #Karger-Thompson attack, diverse double-compiling, and hardware. #security #bootstrappable
“I was social distancing before it went mainstream”
the #hardware setup on the #Nintendo that permitted smooth scrolling of 256×240 pixels despite a 1.79 MHz CPU and 2 KiB of RAM. #retrocomputing
OriansJ’s simulator for the Knight minicomputer from the 1970s. #bootstrappable #emulation #retrocomputing
the #Nintendo Famicom development happened on this 4-MHz #Z80. #history
#Pelosi #USA #copyright #censorship
Mahmoud Salem tells the story of #Jan25 in #Egypt and the #Arab-Spring more generally #history
#Bunnie’s proposal to make “trustable” #hardware with an #FPGA #security #bootstrappable #Karger-Thompson
origins of #democracy in #Europe #history include a peasant revolt in #Switzerland against heavy taxation by (somewhat democratic) cities
the Bernoullis emigrated from Antwerp to Frankfurt in 1570, later Basel in 1620, to escape the Spanish persecution of the Protestants. #history #math #Switzerland
#CPU #hardware of the Kudu server is supposed to have 16 cores but reports 64‽ #sc
#video #toread of CNC-making a cigarette lighter from an old Soviet camera
AcidWarp, free eyecandy #graphics software from 1993 for MS-DOS
“In comparison to expert-based knowledge, collective intelligence does not aggravate the bias of online content when articles are substantially revised. This is consistent with a best-case scenario in which contributors with different ideologies appear to engage in fruitful online conversations with each other, in contrast to findings from offline settings.” #wikipedia #epistemology
overview of Google #TPU #hardware from https://medium.com/@antonpaquin/whats-inside-a-tpu-c013eb51973e
“An Introduction to Unification-Based Approaches to Grammar”, Shieber, 1986 (mostly), on #parsing with definite clause grammars and other #formal-methods. #CC by #PDF #ebook #toread 97 pages
a #Matrix system with free-software bridges to iMessage (running on a jailbroken iPhone), WhatsApp, Twitter, etc. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Definite_clause_grammar#Non-context-free_grammars #Parsing, including attributes, using #Prolog definite-clause grammars: sentence(s(NP,VP)) --> noun_phrase(NP), verb_phrase(VP). noun_phrase(np(D,N)) --> det(D), noun(N). verb_phrase(vp(V,NP)) --> verb(V), noun_phrase(NP). det(d(the)) --> [the]. det(d(a)) --> [a]. noun(n(bat)) --> [bat]. noun(n(cat)) --> [cat]. verb(v(eats)) --> [eats].
#Parsing #ALGOL 68 required using a “two-level” "W-grammar".