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apparently #Fefe “is on the way to recovery after a stroke”
#PDF scan of #history of the #JOHNNIAC, where #JOSS and Newell, Shaw, and Simon did some of the earliest #AI work including GPS (the General Problem Solver). Von Neumann’s paper on the #architecture (long before “architecture” was invented) is included as an appendix.
Brockman’s #Edge dinners that #Epstein attended (presumably because he funded them).
#retrocomputing on #SGI 4D computers with IRIX (use 4.0.5 or earlier on machines with less than 16MiB of RAM, etc.) Not updated since 01997.
how to make almost everything #manufacturing class, as taught by D. Sculley at MIT in 02019
#retrocomputing how the #Apple 1 shift-register video circuit #electronics worked
Chapter 5 of #Gandhi’s #autobiography #biography
oh apparently #LCD polarizers are made of #acetate and so they can get #vinegar-syndrome! So this Acer K385s from 01992 needed #repair. #archival #electronics #retrocomputing
#video of #Jaguar’s “copy nothing” 30-second spot #ad with no cars in it which apparently sparked a huge backlash from I guess people who hate gay people? Or maybe racists? Because the only thing I can see in this ad that would be controversial is that the people are androgynous and some of them are black. Top YouTube comment: “Jaguar’s pronouns are Was/Were.” Followed by: “This ad will be studied for centuries in universities as an example of what not to do in #marketing”. Other comments say, “I'm pretty sure this ad is the ultimate product of universities”, “Together with the ad that cost Bud Lite its No1 spot...”, and “More like “Hold my soy milk latte””, “DID THEY LEARN NOTHING FROM THE DYLAN MULVANEY FIASCO???”, “What do you think ultra luxury car buyers have in common with people who drink bud light?”, “I guess Jaguar identifies as bankrupt”, and “Its like the Jaguar advertisement team typed in the the words “color, gay, and gender” into an AI and then hit enter”. So it seems like it’s people who hate education and gay people. #culture-war
#Jaguar #ad #news saying “a clip of its new advert was met with a barrage of “vile hatred and intolerance” online”, but not what about. #culture-war
#news on #Jaguar CEO stepping down after people who hate gay people complained about its #ad. “The Jaguar CEO is stepping down months after leading a controversial “woke” rebrand campaign for the auto company.” #culture-war
#humor #video about American Eagle #ad #culture-war
#video of Jon #Blow’s presentation at Reboot Develop in 02017 about designing #Jai for #videogames. Photoshop takes 7 seconds to start up to display you an image, during which time it’s displaying you a high-resolution image on its splash screen that isn’t the one you wanted to see, and “now” in 02017 opening the File→New menu window takes an entire second. (Indeed, in this 30fps video, it takes 30 frames to finish drawing the menu.) On his i7-7700HQ. He says single-core performance had improved 24× since 02000 based on SPECfp, but it’s also quad-core. Demo of his in-progress Sokoban game, started a year earlier at the same time as Jai, starts at 16'36". Roughly 100kloc per second unoptimized compilation speed on the i7-7700HQ. A thing I hadn’t realized before is that his compile-time execution represents a repudiation of the idea of simple DSLs like the shell, which is consistent with his dislike of things like Lua. The video is unfortunately very hard to read his screen from. This is one of the videos where he says that the syntax is temporary. His reflection system is useful for not just compile-time computation but also run-time debug messages and experimental interfaces. He never mentions the name of the language, so maybe he hadn’t settled on “Jai” yet, but the compiler is already called “jai.exe” and the filenames end in “.jai”. Also he already had the #LLVM backend, which he described as the “short-term plan” for optimization. #compilers
review of a USB microscope for #electronics
Tips for creating a #FPGA ULPI #USB interface. #electronics #toread