Applying the ideas of Deepseek R1 and Open R1 to computer use. r1-computer-use is an experimental project that applies large-scale Reinforcement Learning techniques similar to DeepSeek-R1 to computer usage scenarios. The primary goal is to train an agent to interact … Read more
A computer can never be held accountable. This legendary page from an internal IBM training in 1979 could not be more appropriate for our new age of AI. A computer can never be held accountable Therefore a computer must never … Read more
If you’re in your early thirties or older, you remember the breakneck pace at which computers were improving in the 90s and 2000s. If you brought home a shiny new 400MHz Pentium 2 system in 1998, it was literally outdated … Read more
In 1984 when the Atari ST hardware was being finalized, there was a need to get an operating system on it. Atari realized that with their short timeframe they could not possibly create an OS for it on their own, … Read more
The Cody Computer Site Introduction The Cody Computer is an 8-bit home computer intended to be built as a DIY project. Inspired by (but not compatible with) the Commodore home computers of the 1980s, it’s built around the Western Design … Read more
The computing world today is in the middle of a revolution: mobile clients and cloud computing have emerged as the dominant paradigms driving programming and hardware innovation today. The Fifth Edition of Computer Architecture focuses on this dramatic shift, exploring … Read more
My stepdaughter is a senior Product Manager and my stepson is a Chartered Engineer and he frequently works as a Project Manager. They would know how to manage this project. Luckily they are too successful and busy to ever read … Read more
I was talking to one of my students earlier, and lent him a book to read over summer. It was only after he’d left that I realised that — for me at any rate — the book I’d given him … Read more
A week ago, I finally got round to implementing an idea I’d been toying with for years: what if your computer made a little bit of noise every time it sent data to Google? From studying logs, I’d long known … Read more
How do you prove something is true? For mathematicians, the answer is simple: Start with some basic assumptions and proceed, step by step, to the conclusion. QED, proof complete. If there’s a mistake anywhere, an expert who reads the proof … Read more