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In February 1983, the Apple engineering team behind the Lisa project, including Wayne Rosing, Bruce Daniels, and Larry Tesler, shared insights on the creation of the revolutionary system. With a focus on user interface and software development, the team emphasized the importance of experienced staff and team-building. The Lisa project faced challenges and risks, such […]
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A leaked spreadsheet of SoundThinking sensors recently made headlines, sparking confusion as the company rebranded from ShotSpotter last year. ShotSpotter’s outdoor acoustic gunfire detection system has garnered attention and criticism for providing services to various law enforcement agencies in the US. Critics point to the secrecy surrounding the system, questioning its efficacy and civil rights […]
For eight years, astronomers have been searching for the elusive “Planet Nine” lurking at the fringes of our solar system. The theory posits that the odd clustering of asteroids in the Kuiper Belt is due to the gravitational pull of this unseen ice giant, potentially ten times more massive than Earth. However, a controversial theory […]
Malcolm, a 45-year-old engineer, shares his experience with an electric heated sauna, emphasizing the importance of proper ventilation. He has conducted his own research, drawing from a 1992 Finnish study, to optimize his sauna set up. Malcolm has found that varying the location of inlet and exhaust air openings has a significant impact on air […]
In the latest post of the “Secret History Series,” the author delves into the Cold War paranoia that led the U.S. intelligence community to develop spy satellites to gather information on the Soviet Union. The CIA’s project, codenamed Corona, involved launching high-resolution reconnaissance satellites over the Soviet Union while maintaining a cover story. Surprisingly, Corona’s […]
Nuclear fusion is a promising energy source for carbon neutrality, with recent experiments demonstrating success in producing more energy than injected. Tokamaks are key for fusion research, achieving milestones like sustaining plasma at high temperatures and breaking fusion energy records. However, challenges like plasma disruption remain, addressed with AI for prediction and mitigation. An AI […]
Textadept is a lightning-fast and minimalistic text editor that is incredibly extensible across various platforms. It boasts a sleek user interface with less than 2000 lines of C and C++ code, and less than 4000 lines of Lua code. Programmers will appreciate its endless customization options using Lua, including autocompletion and API documentation display. With […]
The website serves as a platform for the Introduction to Data Science book, originally derived from HarvardX Data Science Series class notes. Updates are announced on Twitter, and the book’s Quarto files are available on GitHub. The graphical theme is maintained throughout the book using the dslabs package. Acknowledgments go out to contributors and developers […]
KamilaLisp Two: Electric Boogaloo is a functional, flexible Lisp inspired by Haskell and APL. The ground-up rewrite offers various programming paradigms, including imperative, functional, array, pure functional, and more. With features like actor programming, complex arithmetic, object-oriented programming, symbolic computation, and parallel processing, it stands out. The language supports mathematical functions, arrays, set operations, date/time […]
Konilo is a small personal computing system written in Forth, featuring dual stack architecture with 64k cells of memory and 30 instructions. It includes block editors, tools, and documentation, with low minimum system requirements. You can download Konilo 2023.10 or nightly snapshots, as well as individual files such as ilo.rom and ilo.blocks. Development is open […]