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> Dan Bricklin's Demo There's a name I haven't heard in a while. During our undergrad (90s), we used it to mock up UI designs for one of our early courses.

> I'm guessing Google can't make money on them. The weights are free for non-commercial use. And Isomorphic are their commercial arm, and they partner with the big drug companies. …

Yes, it reminds me a lot of the ports between 8-bit computers in the 80s, and also console ports pre-Playstation.

An article by Bruce Schneier, on how he frames the question when evaluating his students.

That is excellent, and explains much!

> CLIC was awful (thankfully it has been abandoned) Could you expand a little on what made it a bad design? I'm not much up on RISC-V.

I re-took Computer Architecture recently, and we used their earlier book "Digital Design and Computer Architecture: ARM edition", and it was also excellent.

From the GitHub page: > It is a Gameboy Advance from a parallel universe where RISC-V existed in 2001. A love letter to the handheld consoles from my childhood, and a 3AM drunk tex…

> We think it is highly likely that these LX2 chiplets are etched using SMIC 7 nanometer processes at the N+3 refinement, and we base that on the fact that the chip only runs at 1.…

I was a programmer, and moved over to biology recently. I was very "wtf is R" when I started, but slowly its strengths are coming through. I found the combination of the REPL plus …

I love this, it's like a grown-up PrintShop.

That's fascinating, I remember my Dad telling me you would pay for something in guineas as a sort of tip, but I never knew it was for horses (this is in Australia).

I loved Swaine's Flames from DDJ. Shame I missed his revival.

Great map! No Opeth?

For those wondering: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unstructured_Supplementary_Ser...

You'd think they'd just ban repeat offenders.

Yeah, you'd think they'd include that. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aec6413 "Upon treatment with acid, that bond breaks to release more than a megajoule per kilogram…

From the Wikipedia article: > However, it is possible to implement saturating addition and subtraction in software without branches, using only modular arithmetic and bitwise logic…

Do you mean for a teaching job, or just any job? Certainly in fields like biology, you can only be taken seriously by others in the field by having an advanced degree (which is rea…

> And for sports, the level at which you have to be competitive is getting younger and younger. So much more sports science/nutrition going in at the middle school/high school leve…

> Plenty of music was developed in the form of source files. That's fascinating. I came in during the Amiga era, and everything was SoundTracker etc. files. I had no idea that musi…

I loved the Circuit Cellar columns. It was all very over my head, but I loved the descriptions and the writing, and the process.

BYTE mag and Creative Computing were the first computing magazines I read, and really kick-started my excitement with computers, even though everything was out of my reach (either …

I don't know much about him, only that he was in the same party. I have heard that he is pro-EU and anti-Russia though, is that true?