The Pentium as a Navajo weaving
righto.com/2024/08/pentium-navajo-fairchild-shiprock.htmlHurrying through the National Gallery of Art five minutes before closing, I passed a Navajo weaving with a complex abstract pattern. Suddenl...
The gigantic and unregulated power plants in the cloud - Bert Hubert's writings
berthub.eu/articles/posts/the-gigantic-unregulated-power-plants-in-the-cloud/Recently a Dutch hacker was able to take control of 4 million solar panel installations (FTM (Dutch), Euractiv, Victor Gevers). And this wasn’t the first time something like this has happened either (PV Magazine). As usual, huge thanks are due to the many beta readers and experts who helped improve this article with their feedback, valuable insights and knowledge! This post was machine translated (not too well) from the original Dutch version, which was also more focused on The Nethe...
How to Build an Origami Computer
quantamagazine.org/how-to-build-an-origami-computer-20240130/Two mathematicians have shown that origami can, in principle, be used to perform any possible computation. Paper is Turing-complete
Our First Closeup Image of Mars Was a Paint-By-Numbers Pastel Drawing
kottke.org/22/12/our-first-closeup-image-of-mars-was-a-paint-by-numbers-pastel-drawingOn July 15, 1965, NASA's Mariner 4 probe flew within 6,118 miles of the surface of Mars, capturing images as it passed over the
Infinite Canvas
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Edsger W. Dijkstra - Wikiwand
wikiwand.com/en/Edsger_W._DijkstraEdsger Wybe Dijkstra ; 11 May 1930 – 6 August 2002) was a Dutch computer scientist[13] and mathematical scientist. A theoretical physicist by training, he worked as a programmer at the Mathematisch Centrum from 1952 to 1962. He was a professor of mathematics at the Eindhoven University of Technology and a research fellow at the Burroughs Corporation . He held the Schlumberger Centennial Chair in Computer Sciences at the University of Texas at Austin from 1984 until 1999, and retired ...