The Joy of Computer History Books Apr 1, 2023 The Joy of Computer History Books When I was a child, growing up in the 80s, I read pretty much anything I could find about computers. There was not a lot … Read more
Welcome to the second installment of Voxel51’s computer vision industry spotlight blog series. Each month, we highlight how different industries – from construction to climate tech, from retail to robotics, and more – are using computer vision, machine learning, and … Read more
I’ve had this nagging feeling that the computers I use today feel slower than the computers I used as a kid. As a rule, I don’t trust this kind of feeling because human perception has been shown to be unreliable … Read more
For centuries, mathematicians have sought to understand and model the motion of fluids. The equations that describe how ripples crease the surface of a pond have also helped researchers to predict the weather, design better airplanes, and characterize how blood … Read more
Company: Thinking Machines Corporation (TMC) Date: 1986 Subjects: promotional materials ; Connection Machine (Computer); C (Software); Lisp (Software); Thinking Machines Corporation (TMC); Military/Aerospace applications; Scientific applications; Digital computer: supercomputer; Software Pages: 18 p. Dimensions: 9 1/2 x 9 1/2 in. … Read more
Going to great lengths to shield a data centre from cosmic rays, say by lining it with lead, would be eye-wateringly expensive. It’s much easier and cheaper to just keep geographically distributed backups of data. If the worst happens, customers … Read more
Pablo Azar One of the current puzzles in economics is the recent worldwide slowdown in productivity, compared to the late 1990s and early 2000s. This productivity loss is economically large: if productivity growth had stayed at the same level as … Read more
Once upon a time, microcomputers were simple and easy to understand. So simple in fact that a kid like me, with no computer experience whatsoever, could actually understand them, build them, program them, and put them to work in his … Read more
According to [Asianometry], in 1986 the Soviet Union had about 10,000 computers. At the same time, the United States had 1.3 million! The USSR was hardly a backward country — they’d launched Sputnik and made many advances in science and … Read more
Today in Tedium: I guess the saying is that one man’s trash is another man’s treasure. If that’s the case, I’ve been treasuring a lot of trash lately. Between the $1 university I recently bought and the $10 Mac Mini … Read more