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jtk, 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago) to random

David Mills, a true Internet pioneer, passed away on January 17, 2024. Probably best known for having led the development and maintenance of #NTP for decades, he was also involved in a great deal of early Internet protocol development.

https://elists.isoc.org/pipermail/internet-history/2024-January/009265.html

pheras, 4 months ago to random Spanish

@bert_hubert https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/a-2024-plea-for-lean-software/

pheras, 4 months ago to random Spanish

Emmanuel Todd interviewed (in french):
https://m.youtube.com/live/R4HRWQPV6BU?si=mbqnn-9XJ58lCaMe

Latest book: La Défaite de l'Occident
https://www.gallimard.fr/Catalogue/GALLIMARD/Hors-serie-Connaissance/La-Defaite-de-l-Occident

via @rnaudbertrand

pheras, 4 months ago to random Spanish

On programming with LLMs
http://antirez.com/news/140
via @michael_nielsen

pheras, 4 months ago to random Spanish

Really good review of what Niklaus Wirth contributed to IT https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/04/niklaus_wirth_obituary

pheras, 4 months ago to random Spanish

Niklaus Wirth passed away
https://m-winfuture-de.translate.goog/news/140430?_x_tr_sl=de&_x_tr_tl=es&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp

pheras, 4 months ago to random Spanish

New book by Leslie Lamport:

A Science of Concurrent Programs

http://lamport.azurewebsites.net/tla/science.pdf?back-link=learning.html#science

pheras, 4 months ago to random

4-wheeled robots are being alpha tested on the lab-streets of US, EU and South America (https://www.carsthatdrivethemselves.com/self-driving-car-test-cities/)

Doubts abound about its claimed superior safety:

https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/can-driverless-cars-get-tickets-california-law-rcna131538

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pheras, 4 months ago to random

Prof. Rodney Brooks: "This is my sixth annual update on how my dated predictions from January 1st, 2018 concerning (1) self driving cars, (2) robotics, AI , and machine learning, and (3) human space travel, have held up."

https://rodneybrooks.com/blog/

pheras, 4 months ago to random Spanish

US Pushed Dutch Maker of Chip Equipment to Block Chinese Sales Before Deadline

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-01-01/us-pushed-asml-to-block-chinese-sales-before-january-deadline

pheras, 4 months ago to random Spanish

"China's imports of critical chip-making lithography systems from the Netherlands surged 1,050 per cent by value in November, in a sign that domestic semiconductor firms are not yet cut off from receiving orders on certain advanced equipment in the wake of tightened US export rules."
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/chinas-imports-dutch-chip-making-093000836.html

pheras, 4 months ago to random Spanish

NY Times sues OpenAI, Microsoft for infringing copyrighted works

https://www.reuters.com/legal/transactional/ny-times-sues-openai-microsoft-infringing-copyrighted-work-2023-12-27/

pheras, 4 months ago to random

What a great TV series is Blue Eye Samurai. Available in Netflix.

https://www.indiewire.com/features/animation/netflix-blue-eye-samurai-adult-animation-game-of-thrones-interview-1234922545/

pheras, 4 months ago to random Spanish

Tesla 4-wheeled robots are unsafe, dangerous, defective.

Special Report by Reuters:
"Wheels falling off cars at speed. Suspensions collapsing on brand-new vehicles. Axles breaking under acceleration. Tens of thousands of customers told Tesla about a host of part failures on low-mileage cars. The automaker sought to blame drivers for vehicle ‘abuse,’ but Tesla documents show it had tracked the chronic ‘flaws’ and ‘failures’ for years."
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/tesla-musk-steering-suspension/

pheras, 4 months ago to random Spanish

pheras, 4 months ago to random Spanish

LLMs make Professor Rodney Brooks rethink his old statements about what computers can/can not understand:

"There are three things that the existence of LLMs, such as ChatGPT-3.5 and ChatGPT-4 make us have to rethink. At different times and amongst different communities they have all had lots of AI researchers talking about them, often with much passion."

https://rodneybrooks.com/blog/

pheras, 5 months ago to random

Computing, You Have Blood on Your Hands! By Professor @vardi
https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2024/1/278892-computing-you-have-blood-on-your-hands/fulltext

pheras, 5 months ago to random

IEEE Spectrum: Quantum Computing's Hard, Cold Reality Check. Hype is everywhere, skeptics say, and practical applications are still far away.

https://spectrum.ieee.org/quantum-computing-skeptics

pheras, 5 months ago to random

"Quint is a modern specification language that is a particularly good fit for distributed systems, such as blockchain protocols, distributed databases, and p2p protocols. Quint combines the robust theoretical basis of the Temporal Logic of Actions (TLA) with state-of-the-art type checking and development tooling."

https://github.com/informalsystems/quint

pheras, 5 months ago to random Spanish

@brianmerchant and @pluralistic write about the future and the aftermath of the AI bubble blast

1/ https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/story/2023-12-14/column-this-was-the-year-of-ai-next-year-is-when-you-have-to-worry

2/ https://locusmag.com/2023/12/commentary-cory-doctorow-what-kind-of-bubble-is-ai/

pheras, 5 months ago to random Spanish

https://www.youtube.com/live/hchzdcqsqKk

pheras, 5 months ago to random Spanish

Polish Hackers Repaired Trains the Manufacturer Artificially Bricked. Now The Train Company Is Threatening Them

https://www.404media.co/polish-hackers-repaired-trains-the-manufacturer-artificially-bricked-now-the-train-company-is-threatening-them/