Posts by EdS@mastodon.sdf.org
(DIR) Post #ArqVYAyowYU4QdoMfQ by EdS@mastodon.sdf.org
2025-03-08T13:22:24Z
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@FiXato $ xxd -r -p | tr 'a-zA-Z' 'n-za-mN-ZA-M'48 61 76 65 20 61 20 6E 69 63 65 20 64 61 79 20Unir n avpr qnl
(DIR) Post #Arz4HxvkkDo4z23sRs by EdS@mastodon.sdf.org
2025-03-12T16:29:26Z
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good experiment and good result!my preference, when I can, is to have black text on a mid-grey background. I have some javascript scriptlets to help with that - sometimes they don't work but often they do.it's perhaps surprising that black on grey feels good whereas the modern grey on white feels horrible (to me)@reidrac
(DIR) Post #As1D37yuNgftiQSOCu by EdS@mastodon.sdf.org
2025-03-13T17:17:06Z
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My first thought is Datamation magazine.https://archive.org/details/pub_datamation@stiefkind
(DIR) Post #As1DFRC4m9ZKmDUBA8 by EdS@mastodon.sdf.org
2025-03-13T17:19:19Z
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Perhaps Communications of the ACM too.https://cacm.acm.org/issues/1977@stiefkind
(DIR) Post #As1DMveTvnzXGgLPrE by EdS@mastodon.sdf.org
2025-03-13T17:20:39Z
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and perhaps Computerworldhttps://archive.org/details/sim_computerworld_1967-06-21_1_1@stiefkind
(DIR) Post #As2v5xyUdGtggrO1B2 by EdS@mastodon.sdf.org
2025-03-14T13:04:57Z
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hmm - a £5 coin retailing at £18.50, certainly for collectors only.https://www.royalmint.com/shop/denominations/crown/@sohkamyung
(DIR) Post #As3JdtqyrJwsedaOv2 by EdS@mastodon.sdf.org
2025-03-14T17:40:24Z
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Here's my most recent pi https://bbcmic.ro/?t=b4zum@mrdoornbos @0x10f
(DIR) Post #As3Jp1BLx4dWZLPtpY by EdS@mastodon.sdf.org
2025-03-14T17:42:25Z
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See also the related "Ugh this is horrible - taste it!"@ColinTheMathmo
(DIR) Post #AsBBdElyLqtgsN61EO by EdS@mastodon.sdf.org
2025-03-18T12:47:57Z
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"a human challenge study intentionally exposes volunteers to a virus in a controlled environment""...aims to recruit for the study a total of 20 healthy people aged 21 to 30 who have already been vaccinated against Covid-19, and follow up with them on five occasions for up to a year."@sohkamyung
(DIR) Post #AsBgzcZReIlVdMOEW8 by EdS@mastodon.sdf.org
2025-03-18T18:39:43Z
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Great!"Credit is due to Peter Jennings, whose excellent documentation of Microchess for the naked KIM-1 provided the motivation to create Q-Chess.""Q-Chess 1.0 employs minimax searching and alpha-beta pruning. A full width search is always performed 2 plies deep. A selective search may be performed in the case of captures and a few other occasions. It may go as deep as 8 plies."@hansotten
(DIR) Post #AsBvlMLMgOoAZ4Sg3U by EdS@mastodon.sdf.org
2025-03-18T21:25:11Z
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we put a fifth leg under the middle of our beds. A bit of 4x4.In the past I've used a big sheet of chipboard under the mattress, which spreads the load, but you do need to have something underneath to spread it on to!@penguin42 @philpem
(DIR) Post #AsD2WfgzM8OX4ETllg by EdS@mastodon.sdf.org
2025-03-19T10:15:40Z
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not lex friedman, for sure. He tweeted in late 2020. But on March 9, 2020 we have"Go Inside Your Mind at Glasgow Science Centre’s Science LatesThe brain is the only organ that named itself."I think it has to be much earlier - I would guess Pinker, Dawkins, Sagan, maybe even Jonathan Miller - but I can't find a citation.https://web.archive.org/web/20200805142227/https://sourcemagazine.org.uk/go-inside-your-mind-at-glasgow-science-centres-science-lates/@ColinTheMathmo
(DIR) Post #AsD2pc0lGZmV9Wl8a0 by EdS@mastodon.sdf.org
2025-03-19T10:19:10Z
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at least 8 years ago, June 2016, in comments on this facebook memehttps://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10154640739324769&id=71760664768&set=a.10150198151749769@ColinTheMathmo
(DIR) Post #AsD2uMpd8BA3WQouga by EdS@mastodon.sdf.org
2025-03-19T10:20:02Z
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12 years ago on reddithttps://www.reddit.com/r/Showerthoughts/comments/1dyvt9/the_brainnamed_itself/@ColinTheMathmo
(DIR) Post #AsDfQzOZ5Jy8eK8vjs by EdS@mastodon.sdf.org
2025-03-19T17:31:39Z
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Slackware for me too - 1995 - on a pentium 75. My first PC, they hadn't appealed until someone tipped me off that I could run a Unix-alike at home.And probably I wrote the floppies at work - if not, my other half wrote them at Uni.I've still got the log book I started at that moment. Most of it remains blank, but it has tables of disk partitions and distribution changes.@penguin42 @philpem
(DIR) Post #AsDior1QASxVUbOBBQ by EdS@mastodon.sdf.org
2025-03-19T18:09:38Z
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slightly different idea from a 1995 book "rethinking knowledge""It is no wonder that the question of knowledge holds such perennial fascination for human thought: Why else has the species named itself homo sapiens?"https://search.worldcat.org/title/622980075@ColinTheMathmo
(DIR) Post #AsFtWT5dPnhK5Vw6eu by EdS@mastodon.sdf.org
2025-03-20T19:19:00Z
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well done! I'd like to do the same, but I want to do it a particular way, and in Basic!(BTW your glider gun doesn't seem quite right)@mrdoornbos
(DIR) Post #AsL7dCYTexhhywKcds by EdS@mastodon.sdf.org
2025-03-23T07:50:33Z
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Not a history, but an anecdote: Peter Jennings, in 1976, before buying a KIM-1:> I knew from Byte that the 8080 was capable of real computing, but I didn't know about the 6502. ... having access to a Xerox Sigma IX Time Sharing computer at work, I wrote a simulator for each chip. There is nothing like writing a simulator to focus the mind ... The simulators were written in APL. At the end of this exercise I was firmly convinced that I would much rather program a 6502 than an 8080.@mwichary
(DIR) Post #AsL7uQgYNQkcjGK9VQ by EdS@mastodon.sdf.org
2025-03-23T07:53:44Z
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But it sounds like you want a much more recent history!Ref:https://benlo.com/microchess/@mwichary
(DIR) Post #AtHsKa3O0Kl0KUjJc8 by EdS@mastodon.sdf.org
2025-04-20T16:07:07Z
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I've moved! Now at@EdS@mathstodon.xyz akahttps://mathstodon.xyz/@EdS