Bad idea of the day: Cryptocurrency but the proof of work is computing a giant-ass rainbow table

Grid computing - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grid_computing

📚 Finished reading What Algorithms Want: Imagination in the Age of Computing by Ed Finn

Ted Talking Fast: How Computer Documents Got Dumbed Down– and the Alternative - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDrHkNgGQDs

Computer latency: 1977-2017 http://danluu.com/input-lag/

Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programmers : … http://www.sicpers.info/2017/12/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-programming/

This Game Teaches You How to Build a Quantum Compu… https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/a3jkya/quantum-game-physics-computer-puzzle

Wires in the suitcase’s inlay, in a complicated pattern computed from yesterday’s recognizer dump, are supposed to throw off the customs scanner AI. They do, you’re waved through, another friend smuggled into the country

The Greatest Computer Network You’ve Never Heard Of - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/pa3vvg/the-greatest-computer-network-youve-never-heard-of

The Computer Scientist Who Prefers Paper - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/12/guardian-of-the-vote/544155/

MNT Reform: DIY Portable Computer http://mntmn.com/reform/

Humans Prefer Computer-Generated Paintings to Those at Art Basel https://hyperallergic.com/391059/humans-prefer-computer-generated-paintings-to-those-at-art-basel/

Too much computation in one place wears out the matrix, it starts failing near datacenters. Once-bustling tech hubs give way to glitch belts

Computers weren’t made to understand speech, humans were. When voice interfaces finally succeed, they’re implantable voices, whisperfriends,

Knowledge Navigator (1987) Apple Computer - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hb4AzF6wEoc

What it Means to Be an ‘Experimental Computer Poet’ - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/8x8ppp/poetry-twitter-bots-best-twitter-bots-art-allison-parrish-everyword

They end up dominating AI.↵2030: With computer science and applied theology on your resume, you’re already in talks with multiple priests

Conducting a Turing test in the wild is a computer’s job. Has been for years.

When computer predictions end up shaping the future. http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2017/09/when_computer_predictions_end_up_shaping_the_future.html

BetterOS.org : an attempt to make computer machines run better http://betteros.org/tut/graphics1.php

Boffin rediscovers 1960s attempt to write fiction with computers • The Register https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/08/29/ibm_1960s_story_writing_software/?mt=1504125155672

The Hyperbolic Geometry of DMT Experiences: Symmetries, Sheets, and Saddled Scenes | Qualia Computing https://qualiacomputing.com/2016/12/12/the-hyperbolic-geometry-of-dmt-experiences/

How to secretly communicate with people on LSD | Qualia Computing https://qualiacomputing.com/2015/05/22/how-to-secretly-communicate-with-people-on-lsd/

I‘m a woman in computer science. Let me ladysplain the Google memo to you. - Vox https://www.vox.com/the-big-idea/2017/8/11/16130452/google-memo-women-tech-biology-sexism

World‘s First Computer Store: Early Tech Retail http://tedium.co/2017/08/03/early-computer-retailers-history/?utm_source=Tedium&utm_campaign=Tedium_08_03_2017&utm_medium=email

3D Electronic Nose Demostrates Advantages of Carbon Nanotubes - IEEE Spectrum http://spectrum.ieee.org/nanoclast/semiconductors/nanotechnology/carbon-nanotube-computing-stacks-up

it turns out that bees and cephalopods can’t be uploaded because their souls are non-computable, but in the end we do fine without them

Computational Propaganda Worldwide: Executive Summary | Political bots http://comprop.oii.ox.ac.uk/2017/06/19/computational-propaganda-worldwide-executive-summary/

Chuck Thacker, "Personal Distributed Computing—The Alto and Ethernet Hardware" - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9n2J24Jg2Y

https://jfm.carcosa.net/blog/computing/facebook-alternative-outline/ https://jfm.carcosa.net/blog/computing/facebook-alternative-outline/

SIGNS YOU MIGHT BE A WEREBOT:↵-your joints make servo noises↵-strong feelings of kinship with computers↵-captchas are way too hard sometimes

To prevent an ice age, a solar mirror is shot into orbit. People report waking up in messes of computer parts, circuit traces on their skin

‘Computer bots are like humans, having fights lasting years’ | University of Oxford http://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2017-02-24-computer-bots-are-humans-having-fights-lasting-years

How Cold War rivalry helped launch the Chinese computer | Aeon Ideas https://aeon.co/ideas/how-cold-war-rivalry-helped-launch-the-chinese-computer?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&utm_campaign=2158247472-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_04_28&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_411a82e59d-2158247472-68693017

Brain-computer interfaces able to play back thoughts can consequently cancel others, providing the basis for the Mental Noise Canceller

the hardest part is figuring out the fluid dynamics of a cloud calculator, the second hardest part is bearing all the cloud computing jokes

Teach Yourself Computer Science ⌘ https://teachyourselfcs.com/

When it comes to performance issues, I honestly think the solution is just “don’t follow so many people”. You only pull the feeds you read, and once one’s feeds are too much for the computer to handle, they’ll almost certainly have far too much content for a person to actually read.

This will be configurable in the future but that’s enough coding for one night, time computation is weird.

Something about the combination of my graphic chip / wm / whatever. Only happens on one computer.

Some of those computer viruses have now evolved to be benign, in fact hunt other viruses in exchange for shelter, wear cat pictures as icons

the Chinese Room argument but applied to universes - humans aren’t turing-computable, ergo a turing-computable universe can’t contain humans

you place the seed crystal in the solution, a crystal self-interpenetrating tree grows and in this way computes an answer in gem form

Elves are rarely good with computers: Few programs still work well when the trees underlying their function suddenly sprout new leaves.

Getting magic into a computer is a challenge though: It took a few breakthroughs in psionics and information theory to add a meta level.

It also turns out magic is not picky about what space is made of: GPUs soak up magic like sponges when running certain computations.

Prequel: a huge computer says “thgil eb ereht tel” to nobody in particular, thinking that perhaps in another timeline, it had a purpose.

@dracoblue@dracoblue.net But apache eg can just use mtime,inode or size for the etag. No default way to compute md5 without a filter.

Haha, haven’t heard that one: “#1 rule of distribute computing: Don’t distribute your computing!” https://m.signalvnoise.com/29166d022228

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