Bill Gates on the 50th Anniversary of Micro-Soft. Includes links to the original Altair BASIC source code. 
#History #BASIC #Computing https://www.gatesnotes.com/microsoft-original-source-code
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I am looking for publications on the relation between home computers (marketing, technology...) and boyhood in the 1980s.
Ah yes, "Localfirst" #web #development – because apparently, the best way to improve the internet is to reinvent it as a 1990s desktop app. 
Sure, let's all go back to the glory days of #offline #computing because, evidently, #cloud #services are just too mainstream now. 
https://alexop.dev/posts/what-is-local-first-web-development/ #Localfirst #Retro #Innovation #HackerNews #ngated
alexop.dev · What is Local-first Web Development? | alexop.devExplore the power of local-first web development and its impact on modern web applications. Learn how to build offline-capable, user-centric apps that prioritize data ownership and seamless synchronization. Discover the key principles and implementation steps for creating robust local-first web apps using Vue.
Posting another #Introduction - plz boost far and/or wide!
#French-Born, #London-Based CompSci Teacher/Education PhD
#Education #Research #Phd, #BCS #Computing #Teacher #CCT
#CSEd #Programming #BCS
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#ActuallyADHD
I live with #MultipleSclerosis
#Zen / #Nonduality #Buddhist, weirdly into #Jung
#Research topics:
- #EdAI / #AIEd - #LLMs in #Education
- #CriticalStudies of #EdTech
- #Neurodiversity in #Education, and the experience of ND educators.
**‘Meta has stolen books’: authors to protest in London against AI trained using ‘shadow library’**
#Books #Bookstodon #Meta #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #Computing @bookstodon @ai
The Guardian · ‘Meta has stolen books’: authors to protest in London against AI trained using ‘shadow library’
‘Meta has stolen books’: authors to protest in London against AI trained using ‘shadow library’ https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/apr/03/meta-has-stolen-books-authors-to-protest-in-london-against-ai-trained-using-shadow-library #Artificialintelligence(AI) #TracyChevalier #KazuoIshiguro #RichardOsman #DaljitNagra #ValMcDermid #Technology #Computing #KateMosse #Culture #Books #Meta
The Guardian · ‘Meta has stolen books’: authors to protest in London against AI trained using ‘shadow library’
What was the first computer?
I don't normal delve back to machines prior to 1975, so I drew up this crib sheet of the most famous contenders to the crown.
Any omissions/errors/suggestions?
The UNIX-HATERS Handbook is a semi-humorous edited compilation of messages to the UNIX-HATERS mailing list. #MostDiscussed #Computing #Books https://www.mostdiscussed.com/article/399773
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- The Unix-Haters Handbook
Kinda hesitant to install forgejo to share and manage some bash scripts or emojis I created.
I don't know if it will be usefull to me or others, plus I'm a noob with these kind of tools… 
I've had my share of "computer nightmares", more so with my very first computer (which was a piece of junk anyway). What about you? https://mindsconnected.tech/index.php?showtopic=83&view=getnewpost #computing #computers #hardware #software #windows #macos #linux #mobile #android #ios #ipados #problems #error #nightmare #stress #trauma #tech
mindsconnected.techmindsConnected -> Computer nightmaresThe next-generation tech forum, from Windows to Linux, to electronics of all kinds
Remington Rand delivered the first UNIVAC I to the United States Census Bureau OTD in 1951 https://cromwell-intl.com/open-source/raspberry-pi/hardware.html?s=mb #computing #history
Bob's Pages of Travel, Linux, Cybersecurity, and MoreRaspberry Pi — Hardware and BackgroundHardware details of the Raspberry Pi: Physical characteristics and Linux hardware detection.
Like computer history? Come to my talk!
Honoured to have been invited by the Computer Conservation Society to lecture on Lore Harp and Vector Graphic: The forgotten female-founded pioneers of microcomputing
22nd May. In-person and Zoom tickets are available: https://www.computerconservationsociety.org/lectures/2024-25/20250522.htm #history #computing
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Mathematician Adam Kucharski: ‘Our concepts of what we can prove are shifting’ https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/mar/29/epidemiologist-adam-kucharski-proof-the-uncertain-science-of-uncertainty #LondonSchoolofHygiene&TropicalMedicine #Artificialintelligence(AI) #Scienceandnaturebooks #Historybooks #Mathematics #USpolitics #Computing #Science #Health #Books
The Guardian · Mathematician Adam Kucharski: ‘Our concepts of what we can prove are shifting’
NutriTransform: Estimating Nutritional Information From Online Food Posts
(... reminds me of a startup I worked on in the pre-funding stage that would estimate the nutritional content of a meal from a cellphone snap)
arXiv.orgNutriTransform: Estimating Nutritional Information From Online Food PostsDeriving nutritional information from online food posts is challenging, particularly when users do not explicitly log the macro-nutrients of a shared meal. In this work, we present an efficient and straightforward approach to approximating macro-nutrients based solely on the titles of food posts. Our method combines a public food database from the U.S. Department of Agriculture with advanced text embedding techniques. We evaluate the approach on a labeled food dataset, demonstrating its effectiveness, and apply it to over 500,000 real-world posts from Reddit's popular /r/food subreddit to uncover trends in food-sharing behavior based on the estimated macro-nutrient content. Altogether, this work lays a foundation for researchers and practitioners aiming to estimate caloric and nutritional content using only text data.
Torsten Hoefler wins the ACM #Prize in Computing for his groundbreaking contributions to high-performance #Computing, which have enabled rapid training of #AI models using large data volumes. ethz.ch/en/news-and-...
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Increased reliance on AI and digital technology is weakening cognitive skills, such as critical thinking and problem-solving, as people depend more on machines for tasks that once required mental effort. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/03/25/world/mantra-for-the-ai-age/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #artificialintelligence #educations #ai #computing
The Japan Times · ‘Use it or lose it’ — a grim mantra for the AI age
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