Spectrum
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- Sunny and crisp outside … Best, Dan Which is absolutely a thing that happened at Washington Dulles International Airport in 1990. ↩︎ New Ethernet Cyberattack Crunches Critical Systems , Michael Kotzol, IEEE Spectrum, 15 November …
- Business models that make you cry; Long-range microwave networks; Home servers; Twitter, But Angrier And In VR … Long-range microwave networks! IEEE Spectrum has a story on the Trans-Canada Microwave System [1] that caught my attention because, well: networking, infrastructure, details about developing brand …
- Bits and pieces … Logs and records of its customers’ journeys fill out petabytes - and court case dockets , Mark Harris, IEEE Spectrum, 3 August 2022 ↩︎
- Infrastructure is that which when you stop believing in it, it goes away … IEEE Spectrum covered weaving your own ferrite core memory , you can get a kit from core64 . Caught my attention because: yeah, it stores 64 bits of RAM but …
- PARC THOR LASER AKL-IX AOaS CFPB … 1.0 Some Things That Caught My attention PARC IEEE Spectrum has a feature on the history of Xerox PARC , the institution that has taken on almost mythical …
- Community Content … IEEE Spectrum has a piece out on the “Dutch Algorithm”, a fuckup of monumental proportions involving lazy bureaucracy and a Bad Algorithm . Caught my attention because: another example …
- Oxo Grips for Software and Vexatious Litigation … What do interesting/exciting/relevant electric vehicle reviews look like? What do drivers care about? IEEE Spectrum has a background story on the invention of Postscript . Caught my …
- Stop Using Nouns … IEEE Spectrum’s subhead for that article is “Bare chiplets on a silicon-interconnect fabric will make computers smaller and more powerful” and honestly today I’m just …
- Jeremy Bearimy … drones, vibrators and kids’ toys are still vulnerable to hacking (via IEEE Spectrum), but honestly all this makes me think is: what, did something happen where they weren …
- Safer Routes Home? … an interview in the uh checks notes highly esteemed industry association periodical IEEE Spectrum. This isn’t to say that instrumenting the planet isn’t a bad idea …
- Sherlock Holmes and the Slack Channel Names … do.” 1.2 Technology projects considered harmful My most recent trawl of IEEE Spectrum turned up the latest entry in Risk Factor , IEEE’s risk analysis blog, which …
- At Any Cost … More on Andy Clark in the recent New Yorker , too (oh god this newsletter feels so pretentious). * From a regular trawl of IEEE Spectrum, I did not know …
- It Looks Like You're Trying To Write A Newsletter … Cannes Lions Archive // BRONZE - CANNES LIONS 3.0 Software Continues To Eat The World So I get to say that I spotted Nexar off the IEEE Spectrum blog …
- If It's Just Us... Seems Like An Awful Waste Of Space, Right? … 3] London’s Crossrail Is a $21 Billion Test of Virtual Modeling - IEEE Spectrum [4] www.atkinsglobal.com/~/media/Files/A/Atkins-Global/Attachments/sectors/rail/library-docs …
- This Generation's Commodore 64 … t look serious yet? For the Brits, it turns out that a 48K Spectrum[4] was GBP 175 in Margaret Thatcher pounds, which makes it around GBP 600 …
- Sequencing; Spectrum … Nature [1] Octopus’ sophistication driven by hundreds of previously unknown genes | Ars Technica [2] Gene - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 2.0 Spectrum Every so often I go spelunking …
- Shockwave; The Top Priorities; Engagement; A Hostile Environment … This fires off a connection with Scott Alexander's thoughts[0] on the thrive/survive theory of the political spectrum where left-leaning policies and people can be …
- Unblocking … I think. - A Thrive/Survive Theory Of The Political Spectrum | Slate Star Codex - I've been slowly working my way through a backlog of Scott Alexander's posts …
- Compiling Consciousness.dat; No Apple TV; Negging, but for A.I.s … hard takeoffs and my reaction to some very elementary reading around the IEEE Spectrum Yann LeCun interview. Borenstein's first point was to remind me that the most …
- The System Of The World; Hard Takeoff … You know who you are. [1] Facebook AI Director Yann LeCun on His Quest to Unleash Deep Learning and Make Machines Smarter - IEEE Spectrum [2] What Google DeepMind …
- Week One; Universal Basic; Karen … where analogue terrestrial broadcasts were finally stopped to make way for another Great Spectrum Auction, the new one-time, one-shot way in which governments tentatively stepping into …