An Attempt at a Compelling Articulation of Forth’s Practical Strengths and Eter
An Attempt at a Compelling Articulation of Forth’s Practical Strengths and Eternal Usefulness PRELUDE Problem Statement It’s done! We have that crucial ingredient giving life to that little Forth, allowing it to walk by itself! Unfortunately, you’ll soon see that after a few steps, this little creature stumbles and falls. What is it lacking, a […]
The era of jobs is ending
Morning again. The alarm pleads. The phone lights up. For a second you’re no one. Then the memories rush in: the commute, the plain desk, the boss’s irritating face hovering in the back of your mind. You do the math you always do, have to do:Eight, nine hours a day.Forty, fifty years.If you’re lucky, you […]
Bag of words, have mercy on us
photo cred: my dad Look, I don’t know if AI is gonna kill us or make us all rich or whatever, but I do know we’ve got the wrong metaphor. We want to understand these things as people. When you type a question to ChatGPT and it types back the answer in complete sentences, it […]
XKeyscore
National Security Agency surveillance Map of global NSA data collection as of 2007, with countries subject to the most data collection shown in red Programs Pre-1978 ECHELON MINARET SHAMROCK PROMIS Since 1978 Upstream collection BLARNEY FAIRVIEW Main Core ThinThread Genoa Since 1990 RAMPART-A Since 1998 Tailored Access Operations Since 2001 OAKSTAR STORMBREW Trailblazer Turbulence Genoa […]
Evidence from the One Laptop per Child Program in Rural Peru
We are indebted to Antonio Campos and Luis Angel Mejia for directing the process to match the administrative records needed for this study. Lisseth Escalante and Alfonso Rodriguez Saldarriaga provided excellent research assistance. We recognize the contributions of Pablo Ibarrarán, Ana Santiago and Eugenio Severín in the original randomization implemented for the development of this […]
Estimates are difficult for developers and product owners
Product Owner: Hey, how long do you believe Feature F will take? Developer: Idk. We haven’t even started working on it and it’s bound to stir up some old issues. Estimates come in various disguises, but when you peek under the trench coat there is always the question: ”How long — and using what amount […]
So What Should We Call This – A Grue Jay?
As a Ph.D. candidate studying green jays in Texas, Stokes was in the habit of monitoring several social media sites where birders share photos of their sightings. It was one of several ways he located birds to trap, take blood samples for genetic analysis and release unharmed back to the wild. One day, he saw […]
Why Fighter Jets Ban 90% of C++ Features [video]
I Tried and Failed to Rebuild the 1996 Space Jam Website with Claude
Can Claude Recreate the 1996 Space Jam Website? No. Or at least not with my prompting skills. Note: please help, because I’d like to preserve this website forever and there’s no other way to do it besides getting Claude to recreate it from a screenshot. Believe me, I’m an engineering manager with a computer science […]
P-computers can solve spin-glass problems faster than quantum systems
“To solve this problem required us to build p-computers at sizes we had never gone to before,” Çamsarı said, “We used millions of p-bits and then did simulations on CPUs to see how they will behave at much larger scales, using existing chips that we customize.” The idea to use so many p-bits came accidentally. […]