A History of Palomar Observatory
Palomar Observatory is among the most iconic scientific facilities in the world, and a crown jewel in the research traditions of Caltech. Conceived of nearly 100 years ago, the observatory has been in continuous scientific operation since the mid-30s, and remains productive and relevant today. Palomar is most directly the vision of George Ellery Hale […]
History of the Monte Carlo method
Jump to navigation Jump to search Not to be confused with Monte Carlo algorithm. Monte Carlo methods, or Monte Carlo experiments, are a broad class of computational algorithms that rely on repeated random sampling to obtain numerical results. The underlying concept is to use randomness to solve problems that might be deterministic in principle. They […]
The History of FoxPro: Interview with Wayne Ratliff
By Susan Lammers ”I went to an Ashton-Tate research center in Glendale to talk with C. Wayne Ratliff, the creator of dBASE. He welcomed me into his large office, where we sat down at a round table and talked at length about his accomplishments and insights about programming. Ratliff is a tall westerner who has […]
History and Effective Use of Vim
This article is based on historical research and on simply reading the Vim user manual cover to cover. Hopefully these notes will help you (re?)discover core functionality of the editor, so you can abandon pre-packaged vimrc files and use plugins more thoughtfully. physical books To go beyond the topics in this blog post, I’d recommend […]
History of Lossless Data Compression Algorithms
There are two major categories of compression algorithms: lossy and lossless. Lossy compression algorithms involve the reduction of a file’s size usually by removing small details that require a large amount of data to store at full fidelity. In lossy compression, it is impossible to restore the original file due to the removal of essential […]
A Bit of Z80 History (2021)
If you used a Z80 chip back in the 1980’s, it almost certainly passed through this room. This photo is of the first Fairchild Sentry 610 test system at Mostek We tested every Z80 chip including Zilog branded ones in this room for many years. (photo from Mostek 1973 databook). We also tested Fairchild F-8 […]
The History of the Web, Timeline
March 12, 1989 Mar 12 1989 Information Management, a Proposal While working at CERN, Tim Berners-Lee first comes up with the idea for the World Wide Web. To pitch it, he submits a proposal for organizing scientific documents to his employers titled “Information Management, a Proposal.” In this proposal, Berners-Lee sketches out what the web […]
History of 127/8 as localhost/loopback addresses?
[ih] History of 127/8 as localhost/loopback addresses? John Gilmore gnu at toad.com Sat Jan 2 01:38:43 PST 2021 I am in the process of sorting out various ways that the IPv4 unicast address space was historically constrained to allow fewer than the 2^32 available IP addresses. One question that came up was how we ended […]
The History of Franz and Lisp
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A new history of Byzantium reveals the inner workings of a late antique empire
March 2022 This article is taken from the March 2022 issue of The Critic. To get the full magazine why not subscribe? Right now we’re offering five issue for just £10. If you’ve ever wondered how letters were delivered in the ancient world, you could do worse than to read Procopius’s Secret History. Every bit […]