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As an undergraduate in physics in the late 60's, he was just a name on a door. Never saw him.

Try starting with a 2x2, then 3x3, etc. image and manually list all the possibilities.

'Fundamentals' by Frank Wilczek explores this: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/554034/fundamentals...

I always thought Desk Set was a bit crazy, but it seems remarkably close to what AI is currently providing (including the warts).

Mostly nostalgia.

I was a Science Reference Librarian at John Crerar Library in Chicago in the early 70's, and this sounds very familiar, although we tended to get a slightly more focused set of que…

Me too (and yes, I'm old)

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Oxy-fuel_combusti... It's not easy or free. Others are trying to do this as well.

I can remember the days! I suppose as problems grow in size, it's not too surprising that older methods of coping with what seemed like lots of data are still applicable.

A friend of mine wrote a book about what happened in Germany: Scientists under Hitler : politics and the physics community in the Third Reich by Alan Beyerchen. I'm about a third o…

PostScript's magic is subtle. I once tried writing a PostScript interpreter in ADA. Got far enough to display the turkey example and realized that PostScript code can modify itself…

I use an oral sleep appliance fitted by a dentist that specializes in treating sleep problems. Works well, but does take some getting used to.

I think he meant it depends on how you define 'swim'

They did indeed use multiple 68K chips. In fact I have one of the motherboards down in my basement (sadly not operational).

I started programming in college in the late 60's and it was cards up until the mid 70's when I got access to a PDP-10 with TECO as an editor. Online editing made longer and more a…

I remember the Apollo reps moaning that the speed of Motorola's 68k chips weren't keeping up the the x86. I still have an Apollo motheroard with two 68k chips on it -- a work aroun…

APL/J/BQN?

Back in the day I worked quite a bit with Knuth's early SAIL (an extended Algol on the PDP-10) implementation of Metafont. They could have used some of the documentation the later …

I read my first Fortran manual about 1964 (my father was an engineer), but didn't have access to a computer until college in '65/'66. I always had my choice of languages, so I've u…

I worked as a librarian there in the early 70's. It was a different world!

Publication in an ACM journal involves a lot more than just accepting a paper as-is.

Well, normally, but you can write it directly in the text format (.wat). It's doable.

Having done some production assembler coding in the late 70's, I expect most new assembler work is now done more for fun than by necessity. Unless the code is well commented and la…

Ada

You might try worldcat.org (most books as cataloged by libraries are there). Just tried my home town (village in NY state) and the results looked pretty good. Easy to just look at …