Human folly for 02025-07-24

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• Wumpus (hpmuseum.org):

  Hunt the Wumpus #videogame for the #HP #41C pocket calculator from 01979. 251 instructions. #retrocomputing

• Liang thesis hires (tug.org):

  #PDF scan of Frank Liang’s #dissertation on #hyphenation in #TeX

• Pearls (cs.tufts.edu):

  #PDF of Knuth’s 01986 #paper where he presents #hash-tries #algorithms #history

• Immediate mode opt parser (nrk.neocities.org):

  #immediate-mode command-line option #parsing #toread: else if (clopt(o, 'n', "name") && clarg(o)) {

• 2024 11 06 getopt (dotat.at):

  Tony Finch’s #immediate-mode command-line option #parsing #toread

• Tang thesis (ewintang.com):

  #PDF of Ewin Tang’s #dissertation “Quantum Machine Learning without any Quantum” on whether #quantum-computing can improve machine learning or not. #AI

• Intelligence is not Magic but your threshold for Magic is (lesswrong.com):

  “Example 1: Trevor Rainbolt. There is an 8-minute-long video where he does seemingly impossible things, such as correctly guessing that a photo of nothing but literal blue sky was taken in Indonesia or guessing Jordan based only on pavement.” #AI

• It isn t Magic (lesswrong.com):

  “Taking a living human’s heart out without killing them, and replacing it with one you got out a corpse, that isn’t the magic of necromancy, neither is it a prayer or ritual to Sekhmet, it’s just transplant surgery.” #AI

• (youtube.com):

  #video #toread near-one-hour documentary about #Blow’s The Witness

• (youtube.com):

  #Thailand attacked #Cambodia today. #news #video #toread

• Transmissions (fab.cba.mit.edu):

  #mechanisms for transmitting power such as capstan drives, toothed-belt drives, and strain-wave gears

• Georgy adelson velsky (en.wikipedia.org):

  Гео́ргий Макси́мович Адельсо́н-Ве́льский, who invented the AVL tree with Evgenii Landis in 01962‚ retired to Israel in 01992 and died in 02014. #algorithms #history