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But would it have run Shufflepuck Cafe? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47128631

I am so proud to be an Australian technologist today.

Some more - Cambridge Centre for Computing History - https://www.computinghistory.org.uk/ - London Museum for Science - Babbage's Difference Engine https://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk…

I'd like to call out the work from Nada Amin in this area: Dafny and verification-aware programming, including proof by induction to verify properties of programs (for example, tha…

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Thanks for your article. The references section was interesting. I'll add to the discussion a 2018 Nature letter: "Vector-based navigation using grid-like representations in artifi…

> Anything more complex than a few lines, you can just copy it from lib\ folder of the CD-ROM. There's a component for everything. You want to left-pad a string? This got me.

They started with a different, more brilliant idea, of using human brains as a giant neural net, then backed away from that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12508832

“Zero success” seems a bit strong. People have been able to get 96% accuracy on MINST digits on their local machine. https://norse.github.io/notebooks/mnist_classifiers.html I thin…

Quibble: Both Clojure and Scala have a Software Transactional Memory implementation, and the original Clojure Ant demo showed this.

I did the tour of Bletchley Park today and my Tour Guide said he'd met Betty Webb, that he mourned her loss, and that when he had met her at a reunion, she had remained tight-lippe…

> These “limitations” inhibit truly intelligent behavior in machines, LeCun says. This is down to four key reasons: a lack of understanding of the physical world; a lack of persist…

The University that hosted "The Little Schemer" and all its derivatives. Those books were a delight and taught me to think about programming in a way that other languages had not. …

Like a @Nanoraptor concept art, except real…

I’ve tried different part detectors, and nothing has been as good as the Google Image search (download the Google App if you’re on an iPhone.) I’ve found it surprisingly good at id…

There is some code to generate Lego images from Lego 3d files here and use it to train models: https://github.com/jtheiner/LegoBrickClassification It is based on this post (which o…