Read for free with Palace Bookshelf! The Palace Bookshelf is a collection of more than 15,000 open access ebooks that are available for free download. The collection includes classics, children’s books, textbooks, foreign language titles, and more. Image courtesy Recollection … Read more
Overview A Bank of England and HM Treasury publication The way we use money is changing. This Consultation Paper sets out our assessment of the case for a retail central bank digital currency (CBDC) – a so-called ‘digital pound’. It … Read more
Brian Hicks, December 26, 2022 I have been using Obsidian for all my notes for something like 6 months now. That’s really everything, from temporary measurements to journaling to serious documentation work. I’ve tried Obsidian a couple of times before … Read more
In my last post, I shared my journey through understanding the link between entropy, thermodynamics, evolution, computation, and mathematics. At the end, I shared some preliminary research on using entropy/complexity to classify the behavior of Cellular Automata (CA) and perhaps … Read more
Posted on October 15, 2022 A website is a lot like a garden. I spend most of my days tending to my garden. I walk around it aimlessly, plucking dead links, pruning superfluous words, and repotting overgrown paragraphs into their … Read more
If in any doubt, consult a qualified electrician ! While every precaution has been taken in the preparation of this website, the author assumes no responsibility for errors or omissions. Neither is any liability assumed for damages resulting from the … Read more
The Council today gave its final approval on new rules for a fair and competitive digital sector through the Digital Markets Act (DMA). The DMA ensures a digital level playing field that establishes clear rights and rules for large online … Read more
The ACM Special Interest Group on Algorithms and Computation Theory is an international organization that fosters and promotes the discovery and dissemination of high quality research in theoretical computer science (TCS), the formal analysis of efficient computation and computational processes. … Read more
During the Apollo missions to the Moon, a critical task for NASA was determining the spacecraft’s position. To accomplish this, they developed a digital ranging system that could determine the distance to the spacecraft, hundreds of thousands of kilometers away, … Read more
sed-circuit-simulator a digital circuit simulator written in sed. As many of you might know, one of my hobbies is writing code on a programming language called “sed”, commonly available on unix-like operating systems. Most unix users developers only have a … Read more