A really interesting interview on the Open Research unrestricted cash grants research.
Yesterday’s computer problems mostly consisted of computation – using hardware to build fancier and fancier calculators. Typical uses for computers consisted of moon-shot calculators and military missile ballistics calculators. Today, though, the interesting problems are mostly asynchronous and distributed. For example internet, robotics, gaming, blockchain, GUIs, etc., etc. We need a new workflow which uses new notations…
The demoscene has provided our community with its artistic outlet since the first computers which could handle graphics, and has stayed at the forefront of technology all the way. For all that though, there’s a frontier it hasn’t yet entirely conquered, which exists in the realm of silicon. To address this [comes] the ever awesome…
This is a great intro into why these dudes (always dudes) think the way they do. In a New Zealand context, David Seymour shows many of the same characteristics.
Alvin Chang of The Pudding used hard data to examine how the tone of science fiction in books, films, television shows, and video has changed over the past 70 years.
Here we go again… except for your mental health