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The latest mural in Łódź: "TIGER" in a "technological" environment, the EC1 building or a code referring to a programming language... Author: Adam Wirski, known as 'Kruk'.
The concept is to refer to the activity of the SESTO company, on whose building it is located - i.e. the production of electronic components for railway substations, as well as other electronic systems used in industry. Łódź, Poland
Laws of Physics
Laws of Nature
Laws of Common Sense
Laws of Man
Laws of Musk
Lords of COBOL
Laws of God
Laws of Beans and Beer
"Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country." – Charles E. Weller
Media:
* Wikipedia: Filler text
* Stu Phillips and Glen A. Larson: Battlestar Galactica Theme (1978)
* Prometheus of Videos: Empire Strikes Back: Intro to Imperial Fleet & Executor / Arrival At Hoth (1980)
Tualatin Fred Meyer, 11:26 PM.
See also: January 20, 2025, 4:16 PM (2024)
The Macro Mondays theme for this week is "Stitch". Photo of a LabVIEW Logo hat patch. LabVIEW is a graphical programming language created by National Instruments
[Eng. /Esp.]
Transputers T800C mounted on IMS 404 boards, linked on an IMS B012
Transputer processors were designed and manufactured by Inmos Ltd., UK from the late '80s to the early 90's, to directly support the Occam programming language, based on C.A.R. Hoare's CSP formalism, providing massive parallelism. Scalar performance increase had staggered, an massive parallelism was the Promises Land (rings a bell guys?), with a wide range of many different parallel programming paradigms. Imnos was not able to catch up with the technology roadmap, delivering the last transputer model (T9000, codenamed H1) at a lousy 100 MHz wereas TI DSPs were alredy running at 300 MHz, which lead to the end of the last great British and European computing project, under my point of view. The transputers shown in the picture are part of the set I installed and configured to implement as a proof of concept the theory I introduced in my PhD. However, working with them meant to program my own tools for loading and debugging programs, and whenever I managed to shone my tools, new commercial tools were available, until eventually the entire European Transputer project crumbled. Fortunately, my theoretical work was sound enough and I could happily wrap up, defend and get my PhD. That was 23 years ago... passed in a wink!
Los transputers fueron procesadores diseñados y fabricados por Inmos Ltd. UK entre finales de los '80 y principios de los '90, para soportar directamente el lenguaje de programación Occam, basado en el formalismo CSP de C.A.R. Hoare, permitiendo paralelismo masivo. El incremento del rendimiento escalar parecía detenido y la programación paralela era la Tierra Prometida (¿No os suena esto?), con una enorme variedad de paradigmas de programación paralela. Imos fue incapaz de seguir la oportunidad tecnológica, entregando el último modelo de transputer (T9000, código de desarrollo H1) a unos tristes 100 MHz, mientras que los DSPs de Texas Instruments salían a 300 MHz, lo que condujo al fracaso del último gran proyecto Británico y Europeo de computación, bajo mi punto de vista. Los transputers de la fotografía forman parte del conjunto que monté y configuré para implementar una prueba de concepto del desarrollo teórico de mi tesis doctoral. Sin embargo, trabajar con ellos significaba hacerme mis propias herramientas, y para cuando conseguía tenerlas afinadas, siempre aparecían nuevas herramientas comerciales, hasta que todo el proyecto europeo en torno a los transputers se hundió. Afortunadamente la parte teórica de mi trabajo era lo suficientemente sólida, y pude finalmente acabar, defender y obtener mi doctorado. Eso fue hace ya 23 años... que han pasado en un abrir y cerrar de ojos!
Todays Macro Monday theme is "In Between" and I thought about the gaps at the back of a fountain pen nib.
I'm pretty computer literate, I can hack my way through all sorts of programming languages and tend to learn software applications fairly painlessly, but I still have a bit of an obsession in writing in fountain pen.
I find it steadies my thought process down and gives me thinking time. I even take great care in finding specific inks to write in.
Ranging from British Racing Green when I want to be patriotic through to my everyday ink that I have imported from Japan just because it writes smoothly and I love the colour.
I also think my pens will make a nice gift for my children when I'm too old to use them. They're my everyday pens so they've seen their share of action but I think if you have something beautifully made then it's to be used not stored and hidden away.
probably the double entendre of the title isn't obvious for non-informatics, so i will try to give some hints: ;)
"life cycle" is a meta-concept in the computer sciences
"java" doesn't mean only coffee or an isle, but it's also the name of a program language
there is this phrase: "A programmer is a device for turning coffee into software" by Unknown(?)
(it's an assimilation of the original citation "A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems" by Paul Erdos)
'the life cycle of java' On Black: small and large
(best Explore @102)
Cuthbert was a big fan of the Korn shell. These days he uses bash.
We're Here: Shells
The Kornshell: Command and Programming Language
by Morris I. Bolsky and David G. Korn
This incredible glass structure sits in front of what was The Sundowner Motel in Albuquerque. The Sundowner was built in 1960 during the heart of Route 66 tourism.
This glass structure casts amazing coloured shadows on the ground. I'd love it in my yard.
This motel was where Bill Gates and Paul Allen lived when they wrote a version of the programming language BASIC for the Altair 8800 computer in 1975. Their company Albuquerque based MITS later moved off to Seattle as they were unable to get funding from banks here in Albuquerque. The rest, as they say, is history.
The Sundowner Motel is now an apartment complex.
Python is an interpreted, high-level, general-purpose programming language. Created by Guido van Rossum and first released in 1991, Python's design philosophy emphasizes code readability with its notable use of significant whitespace. Its language constructs and object-oriented approach aim to help programmers write clear, logical code for small and large-scale projects.
Python pickle module is used for serializing and de-serializing a Python object structure. Any object in Python can be pickled so that it can be saved on disk. What pickle does is that it “serializes” the object first before writing it to file. Pickling is a way to convert a python object (list, dict, etc.) into a character stream. The idea is that this character stream contains all the information necessary to reconstruct the object in another python script.
We're here visiting Pickle Art
Haskell (named after one of my husband's favourite programming languages) is my only boy Pullip (aka, Taeyang), which as you can imagine makes him quite popular with my five girls :D
The poor dear has an extremely small wardrobe though, as it seems the stores here in Canada almost never sell Ken (doll) clothes any more (what happened to the good old days of the 80s and early 90s when nearly every toy and department store was overflowing with Barbie accessories and outfits?). Thus most of the time he remains in some of the pieces of his stock outfit, which he doesn't actually mind too much, as he's something of a proper gentleman with dapper taste in clothes.
A view down the side of one of the open atriums within Bell Works in Holmdel, NJ. Bell Works is the two million-square-foot building formerly known as "Bell Labs," where Bell employees did foundational research that led to discoveries and advancements in transistors, lasers, the Unix operating system, the C programming language, and CCD technologies. Several noble prizes were awarded to the teams who worked here back in the day.
Today, Bell Works is a re-imagined workspace, nicknamed the "Metroburb", featuring floors of private offices that overlook a giant atrium area full of specialty shops, restaurants, a basketball court, both Dental and Medical offices, an indoor virtual driving range, art gallery space, escape rooms, the Axelrod Performing Arts Academy, and the Holmdel branch of the Monmouth County Public Library. They are open to the public from 6:00 AM to Midnight each day, and it's a great place to walk some laps in bad weather in a safe, secure environment.
Panasonic Lumix ZS100 compact digital camera, 9mm (25mm equiv on 35mm), F7, ISO 320, 1/80th second.
In the distant future of year 2020 corporations rule supreme. Largest and most sinister of them all is the Empire Corp. A band of underground hackers and freedom fighters is fighting to bring down the world order and restore liberty to the people. Among them:
Lola - a girl from a wealthy family who managed to steal source code of the BLACK_STAR_ICE - the most deadly piece of software ever created
CY3ER - a hacker fluent in over six hundreds of programming languages
Bernard - a legendary hacker of old, a co-author of FORCE operating system
Luc - a street racer with big dreams
Hanzo & Chuck - pair of street samurais/mercs, veterans of Corporate Wars working for cartels
I wrote a little program in R (a programming language for statistics) to produce a homemade leaf (for nature enthusiasts in quarantine):
postscript("Homemade_Leaf.ps", width = 10, height = 10)
phi=seq(-pi,pi,pi/200)
### ???
r15=0.25*(1+cos(phi))*(1+cos(5*phi))+0.1*(1+cos(phi))*(1+cos(15*phi))+(1-0.2*cos(phi))*(1+cos(phi))
phi15=phi+0.025*((1+cos(phi))*(-sin(5*phi)-2*sin(15*phi)/5)+(1-cos(phi))*(-sin(phi)))
r15=r15/max(r15)
plot(r15*sin(phi15),r15*cos(phi15),type='l',xlim=c(-1,1),ylim=c(-0.3,1))
MAX=8
for(i in 1:MAX){
ri=r15*i/MAX
lines(ri*sin(phi15),ri*cos(phi15),col='gray')
}
for(j in 1:length(r15)){
vx=rep(0,MAX+1)
vy=rep(0,MAX+1)
for(i in 1:MAX){
rji=r15[j]*i/MAX
vx[i]=rji*sin(phi15[j])
vy[i]=rji*cos(phi15[j])
}
lines(vx,vy,col='darkgreen')
}
dev.off()
This is my second approach to designing a Scala logo. With different colors, it could also be interpreted as Ericsson logo.
The difference to Scala Logo I is that this model is folded from a long and thin strip (it needs to be longer than about 12:1) rather than from half a square. This model is of the “simple but difficult to fold” variety: the construction is almost trivial (just folding the strip into the right shape — the logo it represents is just a winding band as well), but since there are no reference points, getting it right took me several attempts.
The 17th century French polymath, Blaise Pascal (1623-1662), is famous for several reasons. Taught by his father, he was a child prodigy who excelled in mathematics and the science of his day.
Amazingly enough, whilst still in his teens, he developed ideas about calculating machines and over three years produced 50 prototypes. He is rightly considered one of the fathers of mechanical calculators and his findings contributed eventually to the rise of modern computers. In fact one of the early computer programming languages was named after him: Pascal.
His major scientific discoveries, however, related to chemistry, particularly the study of fluids and the clarification of theories about gases under pressure and the vacuum. I can recall first learning about him in high school Chemistry - a Pascal is now a unit of pressure.
His major contributions to mathematics began when he was just 16, both in geometry and probability theory. In fact this latter theory led him to his primary reason for choosing to believe in God (though let me add, this is NOT why he believed in God - more of that in the next picture).
Pascal's Wager is another term that has entered our lexicon. In it Pascal argues that one must stake one's own life on the outcome of a coin toss.
Suppose the following (and I'll use terms current with the theology of his age):
You believe in God AND
{God exists} = Eternal Happiness or Heaven
{God does not exist} = Nothing
You do not believe in God AND
{God exists} = Eternal Damnation or Hell
{God does not exist} = Nothing
Now leaving aside the debate about Hell (in which most people in Pascal's age believed), you can see the conclusion. By staking your life on the fact that God exists you cannot lose the bet. And more than this, you have lived a virtuous life (supposing that you are true to the principles of your faith).
But this rational argument is not why Blaise Pascal believed in God. He also said, "The heart has its reasons which reason cannot tell." So to the next picture...
This model represents the logo of KotlinConf, a conference dedicated to Kotlin programming language.
While the logo as pictured on their homepage certainly has an origami-like appearance, I don’t know if it is based on an actual origami model or only made to look like one. Nonetheless, I was able to devise a way of folding exactly the same shape from a single square of paper (duo colored: blue on one side and orange on the other) without any cutting or glue. It was a fun challenge.
"Treinta y tres, tres tes"
"BINGO!!!!"
A quadtych to all of you :D
Today, studying Programming Languages (Lisp( :D ), Prolog( :@ ) and relative things( :AbsoluteShit: )...)
I hope I'll survive to tomorrow :D
PS: I know there are some cuts of color and things, but this was the intention, not to create a master master piece... ^^
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Education Reform: Insert your favorite “Wrath of Khan” joke blog title here
Design without debt: Five tools for designers on a budget
Scratch, a programming language for kids
Created by Jessica Duensing for opensource.com
Cobol was one of the first high-level programming languages. Condemned to disappear many years ago, it is still more current than ever. In the USA there is an urgent search by programmers in this language to keep alive the millionaire applications developed in this language, which is not resigned to death.
I love it, it was one of the most powerful and beautiful languages that I knew in my computer profession.
Kotlin is a programming language for the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) which is gaining in popularity. Having used it for some time, I'm quite happy about the results and I held a Kotlin birds-of-a-feather session at the recent Devoxx.PL conference in Kraków, Poland.
Since the logo is quite simple and based on geometric shapes representing just the letter K, I couldn't resist trying to design it in origami. Lacking duo paper with the right colors, I used a three--layer sandwich paper (Tant-tissue-Unryu).
In computer science, polymorphism is a programming language feature that allows values of different data types to be handled using a uniform interface. The concept of parametric polymorphism applies to both data types and functions. A function that can evaluate to or be applied to values of different types is known as a polymorphic function. A data type that can appear to be of a generalized type (e.g., a list with elements of arbitrary type) is designated polymorphic data type like the generalized type from which such specializations are made.
Source :Wikipedia
Donald Knuth, 1974 @ CHM
In this portrait of the artist as a young man, bit by bit he realizes that he is a prisoner, yet keeps a hand in both camps.
From comment stream below: I think art is the emergent beauty of computational complexity. We use a process of simple steps to create a pattern or resonant homology to the computational complexity of nature.
Natural beauty, whether fractal or evolved, it the product of iteration. We immediately recognize such constructs as complex and rich (a intricate shell, a landscape). A blank canvas in a gallery or a silent symphony is not art. The art there is at a higher level of abstraction, art in the process itself. The only reason people pay any attention at all to such things is that they represent a symbolic hack to the institution of art, a banner that we've been punked.
I took this photo to document the setup that I was using while I was working on my senior project in college. It was a little table-top particle physics project, using a detector (just off camera to the right) not built by me. I set up the data acquisition chain in the lab and wrote some software to run it. (Side note: that was implemented in LabView, which I haven’t used since. LabView is an interesting concept that lets you write software graphically, instead of in a traditional programming language. I remember waking up that semester in the middle of trippy dreams involving that programming language.)
Most of the electronics boards here were, I think, basically spare parts that my advisor (the late Prof Ulrich Becker) had brought back from CERN. I think some of it was stuff that had gone bad and thus been tossed. He would take the boards to his lab bench and figure out which solder joint had failed or whatever and fix it. (It may have also just been surplus.)
(For the curious, the bottom rack is a CAMAC crate and the rack above it is a NIM crate.)
The most interesting artifact here is the module on the very top, which isn’t connected to anything in this photo but worked just fine and was used for manual testing. It was a simple pulse counter, old enough that the display used Nixie tubes ( www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXBK__h6MY0 ). Unfortunately I do not have a picture of it powered on. Those Nixie tubes were so cool. The hand lettering in orange paint says “KF GRP”. This was a reference to the Kendall-Friedman Group. Henry Kendall and Jerry Friedman were the MIT part of the MIT-SLAC deep inelastic scattering experiments that discovered the quark structure of the proton in the late 60s and early 70s. Kendall, Friedman, and Richard Taylor won the Nobel Prize for this in 1990. So I always assumed that this was surplus left over from that era, although that is an assumption.
Henry Kendall assisted as an instructor for a small lab component of a class I had as a freshman in the fall of 1998. (Physics majors don’t take a “real” lab class until junior year, but this was some very light introduction to the lab environment that was folded into another class.) I distinctly remember him gently scolding me for showing too many significant digits in my numerical results. It’s a lesson I never forgot! Only a month or two later, he tragically died in a diving accident in Florida. I saw Friedman give a lecture at MIT at some point. I don’t recall if I ever encountered Taylor when I was at SLAC.
This lab was in Building 44 — the MIT Cyclotron building, which has since been demolished. I must have an old film picture of the cyclotron somewhere. I should see if I can find one. (The cyclotron dated to about 1940 but I believe the building was newer [ physicstoday.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/1.3058412 ].)
This is the first computer that I owned. I make that distinction because I worked with business computers for many years prior to buying my own. Mouse over the image for notes.
I bought this computer for $400. in 1980. That was the bare bones computer, 4k of memory with a "Non-extended BASIC" operating system. "Extended BASIC" was a more extensive set of commands which was at an additional cost. This was a ROM, Read Only Memory, based operating system. A TV set was used as the monitor. This photo was taken in 1983. By that time, the system had been upgraded to at least 32K, maybe 64K of memory. It had Extended Basic and several peripherals, printer, modem etc. The system eventually grew to an OS-9 by Microware system with a 40 MB hard drive. I built an interface to connect a WD1002 disk controller to the computer.
My floppy disk drive can be seen to the far right of the computer. Radio Shack catalog page featuring that drive:
www.flickr.com/photos/jmschneid/15906212516/
To the right of the TV is an Anderson Jacobson A 242 Acoustic Coupler
www.flickr.com/photos/jmschneid/15932286552
To the left of the TV is an NCR 260 thermal printer. It was previously an I/O writer on an NCR Criterion Mainframe computer. As an I/O writer it sat into a hole in the console table, that's why there is no cabinet for the printer.
Radio Shack catalog page featuring the computer:
www.flickr.com/photos/jmschneid/15906212516/
Here it is on Soundcloud.
From interviewer Rainer Sternfeld: This is the 20th episode – as you know, every tenth episode we make is a special where I talk to someone who is of Estonian descent yet doesn’t speak the seemingly unintelligible language, or is a big friend of Estonia who is contributing to the success of Estonia.
We’re recording this on March 24 2017, and my guest today is an Estonian-American polymath, a world renowned venture capitalist, and the Estonia’s first e-resident outside Europe – Steve Jurvetson. In his day job, he invests in bold human endeavors in quantum computing, deep learning, electric cars, rockets, synthetic biology, genomics, robotics, and other areas.
In this podcast you’ll hear us cover a wide variety of brain-stimulating topics:
His technology-infused, Estonian-subtext upbringing in Arizona
How chip design and computing is undergoing a fundamental shift using biomimicry?
Why learning 9 programming languages is not as hard as 9 human languages, and what advice does he give to young people starting out in technology?
How does he think about the future of humanity in the light of accelerating rich-poor gap, automation, and why will robots be the slaves, not humans?
and his thoughts on why Estonia is competitive on the world stage.
Fasten your seatbelts!
Quotes
“If you didn’t understand evolution, and somebody explains it to you, you have to take your ego down a notch. You have to say: “Wait a minute. So humanity is not the endpoint of purposeful design? Wait – we’re just kind of an accident?!””
“I think we are currently in the middle of a major renaissance in how we do computation and how we actually think of engineering in general. I think it is shifting profoundly, almost as profoundly as when we first came up with the concept of the scientific method as a way to accumulate knowledge as a species over time. Something as profound is happening in the field of machine intelligence.”
“What fascinates me is that our humanity’s capacity to compute has compounded over 120 years and across multiple technology modes including mechanical devices etc. The main takeaway for me that is so powerful is there is I think a reflection here of a huge phenomenon, even bigger than computers themselves, which is humanity’s information reserve — our knowledge, our learning is compounding.”
“In terms of advice, first of all, I think that everyone should learn computer science. Do it young, do it early, do it often. Most importantly, I would encourage people, once they have had any taste of CS, to force themselves to play around with neural networks, whatever they will call it in the future. The core of it is neural networks patterned on the brain.”
“It sort of clicked for me that there are power laws in income (meaning it looks in and there are power laws in the number of companies that succeed in the information age businesses. As businesses succeed, they become information-centric and global, it tends to be winner takes all dynamic. Couple that with the notion that I strongly believe every business becomes an information business over time, just at different rates of speed. … The worries around AI should be centered on the concentration of power and I think OpenAI is spot on to say let’s look to Google, should one company be that powerful?”
from Memokraat
The Atari 400 and Atari 800 were released in 1979. The 800 was the higher-end model and the one I grew up with.
I spent many afternoons and weekends with this machine, typing in BASIC programs from magazines and playing games. BASIC was the first programming language I learned, and I learned it on this machine.
10 PRINT "HELLO WORLD"
20 GOTO 10
I puzzled wild with pictures which I made from the installation.
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Coded Movie Factory by Ataro Asbrink
From the description:
"Visually, Ataro Asbrink's factory build is quite a feast for the eyes in black, red and white~but beyond that is a very workable concept for making what he calls Coded Movies. In his words: "My Coded Movie Factory installation is a movie set, only built for making movies, like some painters need a landscape or a model. Coded Movies are movies that are written line by line with a programming language. Normally individual scenes of a Machinima are grabbed with Fraps and then joined together with a video editor, scene by scene. With Coded Movies it is different. You write your screenplay, you build in SL all the required elements including the sounds and then you code scene by scene with LSL (Linden Scripting Language). In a similar way (by coding/programming) you can make texture movies and particle movies, or a mixture of it all.
I show some examples of this kind of movie. You can see the movies by using a HUD (then your avatar can go around or jump into the movie for a while) or by sitting on a prim. You can choose from a menu then. As a demonstration how you can leave the movie resp. to jump into it, I built a sort of simple game, where you can jump into the movie. (Visit game "Jump Seven") I don't know why I chose a sort of coal mine movie set, but I think it has to do with, that I grew up next to one of the biggest coal mines in Germany. And there was a wall around it. So as a child I saw and heard this mine only from the outside, there were only industrial noises, red and violet lighting up to the clouds above. So I heard noises, saw fires, flames of mine gasses being flared during the night, colors, and some special smell of sulphur in the air. Thats why this factory is a kind of fantasy factory for me, not to be compared with a real factory."
From Linden Endowment of the Arts Website
lindenarts.blogspot.de/2013/02/coded-movie-factory-by-ata...
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The "Somewhere in sl" picture series (or "The Adventures of WuWai in Second Life") is my guide and bookmark folder to wonderful, artful, curious or in other way remarkably sims of second life with travel guide WuWai Chun.
Siri-Stroustrup Software Engineer-cat sez:
"Eurekat! I has just invented a new programming language called CAT++
It has classes and objects and also has Inheritance Polymorphism that allows it to create default objects such as Meeces, Fishes and Birdies - Yum Yum!
Wait a minute though - does that mean that I could actually belong to a parent class called Mousie that forces me to inherit the same member functions as a mousie has? HIIIIILPPPPPPP............!
See more animation on YouTube:
www.youtube.com/channel/UCF0N-j_mh3itYwSgtyG83Ag
These drawings are done by using some java script programing language and simple mathematics. Twisting and turn one line at a time to draw geometrical shape like these.
#geometric #math #mathematics #programming #Javascript #canvas #art #mandala #drawing #structure #flower #topology #shapes #shapemorph #animation #spirals #fractals #trigonometry #sides #lines #flower #kaleidoscope #spirals #followforfollow #ff #follow #art #follow4follow #roschach
Eric is an iOS Software Engineer in San Francisco. After being acquired by Capital One, he likes to spend his days at work hanging out with Samuel L. Jackson and asking everyone "What's in your wallet?". Lately his main focus has been with Swift and gaining a deeper knowledge of programming languages at the core.
Outside iOS, his interests are tinkering with hardware (Raspberry Pi and Arduino), gaming, exploring San Francisco, and regretting endless Netflix marathons. You can find Eric on Twitter or his personal site.
Children and teens have an opportunity to explore programming using the Finch robots and the Scratch programming language. The maze was too tough to master in a single 90-minute session, so the 1st-place trophy will be reserved for next time. (But everyone got some leftover easter candy as a consolation prize.)
This project is made possible by a grant from the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services and Texas State Library and Archives Commission (2016).
No, no the programming language but the roller coaster in Efteling... soaring just above us while we were having a waffle...
Title: In October 1979, eleven students, mainly newly arrived Vietnamese refugees enrolled in a special language course at Fanshawe College, toured various schools and public functions in St. Thomas. Here, Alderman Peter Laing greeted the group on Talbot Street across from city hall. Currently, the Hamad family, refugees from Syria, have been settling into their new life in St. Thomas since February 17th. The family is being privately sponsored by First United Church.
Creator(s): St. Thomas Times-Journal
Bygone Days Publication Date: March 1, 2016
Original Publication Date: October 19, 1979
Reference No.: C9 Sh4 B6 F9 4
Credit: Elgin County Archives, St. Thomas Times-Journal fonds
Image source:
www.flickr.com/photos/striatic/928762
www.flickr.com/photos/editor/2590568234
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Can programming language names be trademarks?
Created by Meredith Atwater for opensource.com
Also known as "pulling," the Czochralski process is also used to grow single silicon crystals that are cut and used as silicon wafers (which seemed appropriate, given this is meant as a gift to a creator of a programming language). This is a more time-consuming, expensive process than the verneuil (flame fusion) process commonly used to create lab-created gem rough, is of higher quality, and allows for larger finished stones.
The gem was cut from red corundum (which is what a ruby is -- any other color of corundum is a sapphire).
One day I started filling a spreadsheet with all the languages I've used over the years (and with percentages of focus on each one) with the intention of creating a chart.
It got bigger than I expected. I guess never counted how many platforms I had actually used.
The original chart (created in LibreOffice) didn't look exactly good, so I decided to write custom code to plot the chart the exact way I wanted it to look like. This is the result. It was created with some messy JS code that rendered the data to a canvas object. I tweaked the colors a little bit and added the titles in Photoshop.
I think it's an interesting visualization of the platforms I've used. There are many different solutions to the problem, I think, but so far I'm pretty happy with this result.
Please view in the original size.
The source code can be found here. It was never meant to be released nor too flexible so it's a little bit too linear and hard-coded, but what the hell.
I need to stop ordering books from Amazon starting from this Monday (I ordered one over the weekend). I've managed to sort most of them out today and limited them to three shelves. Top shelf - mostly used and want to read, middle shelf - read most of them and might want to read again, bottom shelf - reference only. Oh the sad life of a geek!
Happy Day of the Programmer (the 256th day of the year).
This is the book I associate most with my becoming a programmer.
There is no predefined agenda; instead attendees collaboratively create one during the first evening of the event.
Right now, I am listening to a discussion of entropy and the mathematics of time by Lee Smolin, Jaron Lanier and Neal Stephenson…
So many cool but concurrent sessions… I’m open to your votes on which ones to attend…
Saturday, August 4th
09:30
1.The Next Big Programming Language
2.Open Science 2.0
3.Digital Data Libraries
4.Citizen Science - Where Next?
5.Future of Healthcare
6.Visual Garage - We'll Fix Your Graphs and Visuals
7.Quantum Computing - What, Why, How
8.Synthesizing Life
10:30
1.Efficient Inverse Control: Through the Users Not the Resources
2.Clinical Problems in Neuroscience / Towards Practical Cognitive Augmentation / Towards Practical Cognitive Augmentataion
3.How to Build Intelligent Machines
4.Why aren't there more Scientists on the Covers of Magazines
5.Future of Human Space Flight and Ocean Exploration
6.Science and Art
7.3D Video Applications: How to Publish Science in Video
8.The Nature of Time and Mathematics
9.Alternate terms of Science Education
10.Future History of Biology
11.Human Cell and Regeneration Map or is it worth building a cellular resolution database for the whole human body?
11:30
1.3D Printing / Robot Printing / Food Printing / Printer Printing
2.Just When You Thought It Was Safe to Teach Evolution
3.Sequencing the Genome: Implications, Ethics, Goals
4.Are Patents Preventing Innovation?
5.Tricoder is Finally Here
6.Ethical Implications of the Information Society
7.Reversible Computation and Its Connections to Quantum Interpretations
8.Mapping Science and Other Big Networks
9.A Magician Looks at the Irrational and Pseudo-Science
10.Listening to the World: Voices from the Blue Deep
14:00
1.Collecting More Data Faster Can Make an Organization Dumber
2.Skepticism and Critical Thinking in an Age of Marvels
3.Computable Data/Mathematics
4.$100 Laptop Demo
5.Where Are the Aliens?
6.The Selfish Scientist
7.Evolutionary Robotics
8.Buildings, Energy Use and Behavior Change - Can the Built Environment be an Interface?
9.Why a Mouse?: Multi-touch, Physical and Social Interfaces for Manipulating Data
10.Scientific Communication in 2030
11.Universe or Multiverse?
12.Reuse of Sewage to Grow Food and Provide Sanitation
13.Is Collaborative Policy Making Possible? (think wikipedia, government simulation games)
14.Viral Chatter
15:00
1.Freebase Demo
2.Biodiversity on the Web: Science Publishing
3.Prioritizing the World's Problems
4.Display of Greater than 2D Data or Lots of 2D Data All at Once
5.E-Science Beyond Infrastructure
6.Implantable Devices and Microchips for Healthcare / Diver Assistance Devices
7.Using Evolution for Design and Discovery
8.Stem Cells (a.k.a. How to Get Scientists to Care about Web 2.0
9.Machine Reading & Understanding Science
10.Science & Fundamentalism
11.Biological Data & Research / Open Source Biomedical Research for Neglected Diseases
12.My Daughter's DNA: Hacking Your Genome / Towards a Data Wiki
13.Network-Centric Biomedicine
14.Squishy Magnets, Talking Paper and Disapearing Ink: How can inventables.com open its doors to kids for free.
16:00
1.Give us your Data! Google's effort to archive and distribute the world's scientifcic datasets.
2.Personal Impact Factor: Measuring Scientific Contributions Outside the Literature
3.Kids, Science, Math & Rational Thought
4.Micro-UAVs
5.Machine Learning in the Natural Sciences
6.Hunch Engines
17:00
1.Data Mining the Sky
2.All-Fluidic Computing
3.Science vs. Capitalism: Utopian Effots in the Overshoot Century
4.Dinosaurs and Ancient Sarahans
5.The Paperless Home
6.Provenance Analytics: Illuminating Science Trails and the Future of Scientific Publications
20:00
1.Piracy, Murder and a Media Revolution
2.Engineering Living Instruments
3.Nanohype: The volumnious vacuous vapid world where only size matters.
Sunday, August 5th
09:30
1.Golem: Data Mining for Materials (and Non-Programmers): sketching information systems Andrew Walkingshaw / Searching the Edges of the Web
2.Novel Biofuels
3.Genome Voyeurism – Let's poke through Jim Watson's genome
4.Would You Upload?
5.Reforming Patent Systems
6.How to Celebrate Darwin in 2009
7.Innovation is Not Pointless...But It's So 20th Century
10:30
1.Large Scale Molecular Simulation
2.Tree of Life: Fractal Data Problem
3.Planetary Defense Against Asteroids
4.The Automation of Science and the Technological Singularity
11:30
1.Science on the Stage
2.Human Microbiome
3.Out Future Lies in Space
4.Climate Crisis vs. Environmental Justice
Back to school. After all these years, now I really want to learn the C programming language. A good book, new powerful hardware, and we can start.
I use Atmel Studio 7.0, the STK600 programmer tool, PicoScope 2205, Logicport analyser with 32 channels @ 500MHz, and the low cost MikroElecronika Xmega board with a lot of I/O's. The chip used is the ATXmega128A1U. I've 2 boards now, one for tests and one for a future application. I've to read over the 1500 pages of information and data sheets. The first program run now with just 8 leds. Next step is the LCD display with 4x20 chars.
I am now 73 years old but this is a real challenge!
Freshly compiled OTHELLO.C
Once upon a time in prehistoric days of personal computing, Robert Halstead of MIT wrote a game of Othello in C programming language. In late 1978, Leor Zolman really wanted to play that game on his micro but couldn't, he had to write a C compiler first. The compiler he wrote became known as BDS C -- one of the most widely known and influential C compilers of the 8-bit era.
In the fall of 2007 I really wanted to run a few old games and demos for an awesome but mostly forgotten computer called Vector-06C and, disappointed by the state of existing software emulators, created my own hardware implementation. Reverse engineered without a complete circuit diagram, with scarce documentation, tested by software written for the original computer it has fancy graphics and it plays music. But I find its role as a historical link the most fascinating.
Recreated in 2008 for want of a demo, using a compiler written in 1979 for want of an Othello game, running the game from mid-70's on a 21st century FPGA, here it is. Looking not very impressive but with a kind heart, this is an entirely free and open source project. It utilizes approximately 30% of EP2C20 FPGA on Altera DE1 development board, fully recreating a 8080-based computer that was popular in the former Soviet Union in late 80's to mid-90's. It's worth noting that unlike many other Soviet-era designs this computer was truly original, borrowing very little from any other computer of the time.
Other projects created for, or ported to the DE1 kit include at least a couple of ZX Spectrum clones, FPGApple: an Apple ][ recreation, Minimig: the Amiga clone, One-Chip MSX, and new projects keep emerging.
vector06cc project URL: code.google.com/p/vector06cc/
I took this photo because I knew I was about to spend a whole semester teaching the statistical programming language R. This random bit of graffiti seemed to be "calling me out" or something.
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