It’s the hard to beat the eery feeling of studying Wolfram’s Rule 30.
Continue reading “Wolfram’s Rule 30 and the Conus Textile”Why Computers Crash
Continue reading “Why Computers Crash”Although crashes caused by hardware are possible, most computer crashes are caused by errors in the OS software.
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Recursion (noun). If you still don’t get it, see recursion.
Recursion (rĭ-kûr’-zhən) noun. If you still don’t get it see recursion.
Artists’ faith and George Michael
One of my favorite pieces by Bob Lefsetz is the one written shortly after George Michael passed away. It’s a letter that is raw in the same, patent way that Lefsetz usually writes, but to me it is also expressed in a way that a computer would have an extremely difficult time understanding what’s being sad. That said, it would have no problem repeating something similar to it.
While the rest of the world jumps through the hoops to get to a safe place, our artists walk into the wilderness without a safety net and out of thin air create diamonds that shine forever.
Continue reading “Artists’ faith and George Michael”Repeat yourself to become more popular (or at least better understood)
In a terrific article by Colin Morris in The Pudding he talks about the similarity of songs in the pop music sphere.
My badass (former) boss Nicholas Negroponte
excerpts via Wired in 1995
Wired (1995): How has living on airplanes – being in the clouds all day – changed your perspective on the world?
Negroponte (1995): When you go around the world a half dozen times each year it reinforces the fact that this planet is one complex place, with many perspectives, the least attractive of which is a nationalistic one.
Continue reading “My badass (former) boss Nicholas Negroponte”Really Good Bad Tech Predictions
Continue reading “Really Good Bad Tech Predictions”“I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
Thomas Watson, CEO IBM (1943) [Time]
Branding “The Transistor”
“The transistor was probably the most important invention of the 20th Century, and the story behind the invention is one of clashing egos and top secret research….”
via PBS.org
[Shockley’s] device, the junction (sandwich) transistor, was developed in a burst of creativity and anger, mostly in a hotel room in Chicago.
Continue reading “Branding “The Transistor””The Venerable Electromechanical Mouse
From computing pioneer Brad Meyers:
A motivation for this article is to overcome the mistaken impression that much of the important work in Human-Computer Interaction occurred in industry, and if university research in Human-Computer Interaction is not supported, then industry will just carry on anyway. This is simply not true.
When Computing Was Scarce
According to the 1960s timeline from the Smithsonian: