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Cleo Abram interviewed Demis Hassabis (CEO Google Deep Mind)
Iβll follow up here with thoughts, as I make my way through. Clearly itβs going to be a good interview.
youtu.be/C0gErQtnNFE
Iβll follow up here with thoughts, as I make my way through. Clearly itβs going to be a good interview.
youtu.be/C0gErQtnNFE
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The COSMAC 1802 microprocessor (1976) had approximately 5,000 transistors, and 16x16-bit internal registers. The MOS 6502 (1975) had even fewer transistors, yet went on to power most of the early PC era.
A human brain weighs 3lbs and draws 30W.
Perhaps we're scaling in the wrong direction.
#GOFAI
A human brain weighs 3lbs and draws 30W.
Perhaps we're scaling in the wrong direction.
#GOFAI
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The Jupiter ACE was built by two ex-Sinclair engineers who helped design the ZX Spectrum β the only home micro to run FORTH! The archive preserving its legacy needs support. Help keep this Sinclair heritage alive! πΉοΈ www.jupiter-ace.co.uk/
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When I was a student, Alan Winfield, one of my lecturers started up a spin-out company to create a fast hardware Forth processor.
alanwinfield.blogspot.com/2013/03/extreme-debugging-tale-of-microcode-and.html
alanwinfield.blogspot.com/2013/03/extreme-debugging-tale-of-microcode-and.html
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"The Wizard of Oz" (1939).
A tale of snake oil, flimflammery, androids, witchcraft, lies about the nature of true intelligence, lots of wind.
It had it all.
#ArtificialIntelligence
A tale of snake oil, flimflammery, androids, witchcraft, lies about the nature of true intelligence, lots of wind.
It had it all.
#ArtificialIntelligence
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On this International Womenβs Day, we remain vigilant about what we must protect.
And we remain determined about accomplishing the work ahead.
And we remain determined about accomplishing the work ahead.
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If your pop-sci book shelf is looking for a new addition - Emma Chapman's Radio Universe is coming out this week. It's genuinely delightful and well worth picking up a copy!
π@dreochapman.bsky.social
π: www.waterstones.com/book/radio-universe/emma-chapman/9781529398977
π@dreochapman.bsky.social
π: www.waterstones.com/book/radio-universe/emma-chapman/9781529398977
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Interesting new M dwarf #exoplanet occurrence rates paper! I'm glad to see that the new TESS result (with much lower uncertainties) is consistent with our Kepler result!
arxiv.org/abs/2602.23364
arxiv.org/abs/2602.23364
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I was curious to figure out what the beefiest single board computer under $30 is (AKA C$40). The first real standout is the Radxa Cubie A7Z. The model with 1 GB DDR4 meets that. Features an Allwinner A733 SOC: 8 CPU cores, PCIe 3.0, WiFi6+BT5.4, RISC-V coprocessor. π€―
Also available with 2/4/8 GB.
Also available with 2/4/8 GB.
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Air Force veteran Kimberly OβBrien explains why NASA citizen science and veterans go together so well. www.military.com/feature/2026/02/08/matching-veterans-nasa-citizen-science.html
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An abstract representation of the #LEGO mindset has been available as a programming language since 1970.
It's called #FORTH.
#ComputationalThinking #AssemblyTheory
#Concatenative #ThreadedLanguages
It's called #FORTH.
#ComputationalThinking #AssemblyTheory
#Concatenative #ThreadedLanguages
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The 1st planet candidate w/Earth-like radius & orbit transiting a Sun-like star bright enough for serious follow-up. Congrats to citizen scientists Alexander Venner, Hans Martin Schwengeler, Martti H. Kristiansen, Mark Omohundro & Ivan A. Terentev! iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/adf06f #news #astronomy
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βAny planet is 'Earth' to those that live on it.β
Isaac Asimov, "Pebble in the Sky"
#Subjectivity #Rationality #Psychology
Isaac Asimov, "Pebble in the Sky"
#Subjectivity #Rationality #Psychology
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More than 650 amateur scientists have now become coauthors of published, refereed scientific papers through their work on NASA citizen science. science.nasa.gov/citizen-science/publications/ #astrophotography #space #news
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The galaxy MoM-z14 could offer clues to what the universe looked like in its early infancy
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"I much prefer the sharpest criticism of a single intelligent man to the thoughtless approval of the masses"
- Johannes Kepler
This might be applied to AI as well as to 'the masses', especially the 'thoughtless' part.
#Rationalism #CriticalThinking
- Johannes Kepler
This might be applied to AI as well as to 'the masses', especially the 'thoughtless' part.
#Rationalism #CriticalThinking
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With the crazy jump in RAM prices, the #RetroComputing community might do well to make adapters for using old memory in new computers, if that's possible.
#Legacy #RAM #DRAM
#Legacy #RAM #DRAM
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π₯³ Major milestone for the π΄σ §σ ’σ ³σ £σ ΄σ ΏScottish Dark Sky Observatory: architectural designs are now public and isn't she a beauty! Two 5m πdomes, observing deck, solar-panelled planetarium, exhibition area & cafe.
Fingers crossed that planning permission gets approved!
βΉοΈ: www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clygzd7z786o
π·: arpl
Fingers crossed that planning permission gets approved!
βΉοΈ: www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clygzd7z786o
π·: arpl
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In the early 1980s, ordinary citizens had access to real computing. Ubiquitous computational thinking was within our grasp. But sadly, the world fell into decades of sifting eye candy, and eventually became a wasteland of zombified slopchuggers.
Alas, what might have been.
gofai.discourse.group
Alas, what might have been.
gofai.discourse.group
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A mini setup on the bench today, I needed to do some PET stuff and my main bench is full of a different project.
One of the first batch of SD2PETs (2019).
The first Mini PET (2020).
The first Deluxe Keyboard (2020).
Definitely not the first mini LCD from Amazon (2024).
All still working nicely.
One of the first batch of SD2PETs (2019).
The first Mini PET (2020).
The first Deluxe Keyboard (2020).
Definitely not the first mini LCD from Amazon (2024).
All still working nicely.
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I miss when the OS was a self-contained tool rather than an internet service. We had to manually configure the date and time, which was a small trade off in exchange for the independence.
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