Category: computing

How to Build an Origami Computer | Quanta Magazine

https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-to-build-an-origami-computer-20240130/

Large Language Models and The End of Programming – CS50 Tech Talk with D…

From Centuries to Days: Breakthrough in Monte Carlo Computer Simulations

https://scitechdaily.com/from-centuries-to-days-breakthrough-in-monte-carlo-computer-simulations/?expand_article=1

Creative Technology founder Sim Wong Hoo dies at age 67 | The Straits Times

https://www.straitstimes.com/business/companies-markets/creative-technology-founder-sim-wong-hoo-dies-aged-67

AI learns to write computer code in ‘stunning’ advance | Science | AAAS

https://www.science.org/content/article/ai-learns-write-computer-code-stunning-advance

RIP Fred ‘Mythical Man-Month’ Brooks: IBM guru of software project management

Turing Award winner who helped spread the eight-bit byte

https://www.theregister.com/2022/11/28/fred_mythical_man_month_brooks/

The World’s Biggest Startups: Top Unicorns of 2021 – Full Size

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/The-Worlds-Biggest-Startups-Top-Unicorns-of-2021-Full-Size.html

All these images were generated by Google’s latest text-to-image AI – The Verge

https://www.theverge.com/2022/5/24/23139297/google-imagen-text-to-image-ai-system-examples-paper

In each case, the text at the bottom of the image was the prompt fed into the program, and the picture above, the output. Just to stress: that’s all it takes. You type what you want to see and the program generates it.

Quanta Magazine: Computing Expert Says Programmers Need More Math

Quanta Magazine: Computing Expert Says Programmers Need More Math. https://www.quantamagazine.org/computing-expert-says-programmers-need-more-math-20220517/

What 5 megabytes of computer data looked like in 1966: 62,500 punched cards, taking four days to load.

What 5 megabytes of computer data looked like in 1966: 62,500 punched cards, taking four days to load.
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