Margaret Mead, John von Neumann, and the prehistory of AI

UPDATE: Steam Families launched out of beta on September 11th, and is now available to all Steam users. Read our newer post detailing Steam Families here! Everything below is from the original post from March 18th, 2024: Hello! We are excited to announce…

Answer: A little context and bias before I attempt to give an answer: I started programming as a job ca 1961 in the USAF. The programming style was “data munged by imperatives with loops” (sound familiar?). An interesting wrinkle was that the machines we…

A simplified approach to building composable data pipelines in Ruby, with examples and use cases.

Nature Neuroscience - Riveland and Pouget model instructed action, showing that shared structure in task and semantic representations allows language to compose practiced skills in novel settings....

20240420: Brendan Bellina's Amazing and Hysterical (and Runnable!) HyperCard ELIZA
Brendan Bellina (bbellina@alumni.nd.edu, SilverWandSoftware) has created a wonderful and hysterically funny adaptation of Jeff Shrager's BASIC ELIZA in HyperCard -- late 20th…

An Intel 8080 processor emulator written in less than 4K of C language and able to run CP/M. It won the Best of Show category (first place) of the 19th IOCCC. The 8080 originated the Zilog Z80 and started the personal computer's revolution.

thoughts on programming. Contribute to Dobiasd/articles development by creating an account on GitHub.

World\u002Dfamous Go champion Lee Sae Dol reflects on his match against our AI system AlphaGo eight years ago.

In which I talk about why meta build systems are forever cursed to remain hobbled throughout eternity.

Has LEGO prices gone up or down? Let's find out.

PostgreSQL isn’t just a simple relational database; it’s a data management framework with the potential to engulf the entire database realm. The trend of “Using Postgres for Everything” is no longer limited to a few elite teams but is becoming a mainstream…

In just a few years, Flipper Zero has become so popular that it’s now surrounded by many myths. It’s no wonder that people in power are trying to make Flipper Zero illegal. As you might have seen in the news, the Canadian government plans to ban Flipper Zero

The trillions of bacteria that call your body home—collectively known as the microbiome—appear to be unique to you, like a fingerprint. That's one conclusion of a detailed study of the gut, mouth, ...

Interactive JSON filter using jq. Contribute to ynqa/jnv development by creating an account on GitHub.

eBPF distributed networking observability tool for Kubernetes - microsoft/retina

MIT CSAIL researchers introduce FeatUp, a model-agnostic framework designed to significantly enhance the spatial resolution of deep learning features for improved performance in computer vision tasks such as semantic segmentation, depth prediction, and object…

A team of neurologists, stem cell specialists and molecular biologists affiliated with several institutions in the U.S. and led by a group at Stanford University School of Medicine has found evidence ...