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Based base64 (now with more steganography!) https://lobste.rs/s/tmnv1c #art #compsci
https://blog.jordan.matelsky.com/bb64/
In a video I'm watching
"This is not uncommon problem in more serious situations, but it's being framed as if we are helping a thief, but remember that's just fun algorithms is not about breaking the law, algorithms doesn't help burglary, but we are framing it as a funny instance, and sometimes people doing algorithms can be funny."
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sometimes people doing algorithms can be funny.
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hah.
Happy birthday to Ada Lovelace (1815-1852), who published the first computer program. She worked together with Charles Babbage, the inventor of the Difference Engine and the Analytical Engine (the first computers), correcting his notes on how to calculate Bernoulli Numbers with the Analytical Engine. 🧵⠀
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#sciart #linocut #printmaking #mathematics #mathart #compsci #programming #histsci #WomenInSTEM #technology #artAdventCalendar #mastoArt
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As described, my linocut print shows Lady Ada, based on engravings made during her lifetime, printed in purple, before gears of the Charles Babbage Analytical Engine, based on one of his blueprints, printed in bronze. Depicted around the gears are equations relating how to calculate Bernoulli Numbers.
A random link I came across reminded me that one of my FOSS projects' README file references all of the following:
Tru64
HP-UX
Debian
RedHat
SuSE
Ubuntu
FreeBSD
NetBSD
Darwin
x86
AMD64
Alpha
PA-RISC
Itanium
PowerPC
I would like to issue a decades-late "thank you" to Hewlett Packard for operating their "Test Drive" program, that allowed me to do test builds on all of those platforms I had no other access to. [1] I was sad when they discontinued it, even if it was a pretty niche thing at the time.
I must have been one of about 3 people outside of Hewlett Packard, Intel, and Microsoft who'd ever bothered to try to build software on Itanium. [2]
How many of the above phrases would elicit blank looks from newly-minted engineers and #CompSci people these days?
[1] Meaning actual useful Hewlett Packard. The practically unrelated modern HP corporation can, of course, stick their overpriced, DRMed ink and toner in their paper-jam access holes.
[2] a.k.a. "Itanic"
#HP #HewlettPackard #TestDrive #platforms #architectures #OSes #Unix #CPUs #PaperJam #StickIt #WhereTheSunDontShine
I'm working on a project idea, and trying to figure out what the best programming model for it would be!
I've got an odd requirement: the program should be the process. That is, I want a computation without a representation, or where the computation is its own "representation."
The only concrete example of this I can think of is a cellular automaton, like Conway's Game of Life. Given a set of rules, the only "program" to run is the state of the process.
Can you think of any other programming models like that? I'd love more examples to help me think this through.
Boosts appreciated, if you've got the right kind of nerds in your circles.
Diversity of ideas is important. Sticking with a research program long enough to see it through is also important. Changing up what you're working on every time Silicon Valley ejects a new artifact that gets news coverage endangers both of those values.
And holy hell is the monotony boring. Computer science is an interesting, sprawling field with a lot going on! Let's keep it that way!
I'm aware that over the last year or so I've been a critic of #LLM hype so I too am reacting to it. Lately I've been considering changing that up.