wow, Jürgen Schmidhuber has 140870 citations to his paper from 01997 about LSTMs and an h-index of 131.
Jürgen Schmidhuber investigates the #history of the transistor, coming to the conclusion that Lilienfeld’s devices did work, that he had working MOSFETs in the 01920s! #CC BY-NC-SA
essay by Dave Thomas (“President and CEO of Object Technology International Inc. and Adjunct Research Professor of Computer Science at Carleton University”) reprinted from Celebrating 25 Years of #Smalltalk. #toread
#AZHenley #tutorial on #compilers in Python. #toread
#AZHenley on challenging projects every programmer should try: “Text editor, 2D game - Space Invaders, Compiler - Tiny BASIC, Mini operating system, Spreadsheet, Video game console emulator” plus followups “Database from scratch, Ray tracer, MS Paint clone, Vector graphics editor, Image decoder, Chatroom web app, Digits of pi calculator, Common terminal utilities (e.g., grep), FTP client and server” #toread
17 sculpture towers built in Watts by Sabato Rodia from 1921 to 1954 #to-visit
“known for attracting people who want to live outside mainstream society” #to-visit
#Veritasium #video about #ASML #EUV #photolithography machines, which apparently cost US$400 million each. Explains #optics a bit, including defining NA (as the sine of half the cone included angle) and the Rayleigh equation. Traces the #history through Kinoshita and Andrew Hawryluk, with an #interview with the latter, and extensive interviews with people at ASML. #precision