Poor Tommy Flowers never got the recognition he deserved designing the first electronic computer.
The world’s first digital electronic computer, forerunner of the ones reshaping our world today, was built in Britain to revolutionise codebreaking during the second world war – a mind-boggling feat of creative innovation – but Turing wasn’t in the country at the time. Neither was it conceived by the mostly private school and Oxbridge-educated boffins at Bletchley Park. Rather, the machine Park staff called Colossus was the brainchild of a degreeless Post Office engineer named Tommy Flowers, a cockney bricklayer’s son who for decades was prevented by the Official Secrets Act from acknowledging his achievement.
The Myth of Falling Crime: Why Americans Don’t Trust the Numbers. Yup, the official crime statistics are fake and no one believes them. And here's Ranked: Europe’s Most Dangerous Cities, According to Citizens.
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It may be time for the U.S. to copy China this time. China builds new self-healing battery for EVs and phones with triple lifespan.
And China is going big on robots, have you heard? They're not the robot arms that we're used to seeing here, but humanoid robots.
And China is going big on robots, have you heard? They're not the robot arms that we're used to seeing here, but humanoid robots.
Bride surprises new husband with an RTX 5090 on wedding day. Forget love and romance. It's time to install this baby and run some inference on machine learning models. Maybe mine some coin. Amirite?
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Forget M4. Apple will be ready to release M5 Macbook Pros. The commenters are unimpressed. Yeah, it's been tough to notice significant improvements with each release. More incremental than impressive. Apple does seem to have run out of new ideas. I'll still give this a sugoi though.
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I've wondered about this: How do people come up with those difficult Putnam exam questions? Someone wrote down some thoughts on this.
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In computer science, in the section on networks, you've probably heard about Dijkstra's Algorithm, computing the shortest distance between two points. Well, some scientists found a faster way of calculating this. This is important for things like stereotactic radiosurgery, where a thin beam of radiation blasts a tumor in different directions, and the intersection of all these beams is where the radiation intensity is the highest. Picture a head with dots on it, marking where the beam will be directed – that's the network. You want to calculate the quickest path that will direct the beam from all different directions, and this calculation will do that.
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Canadians were shunning Oregon this summer. Certainly understandable. The state has gotten less attractive. And I'm not even talking about the recent naked bike ride. Ewww.
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As they say in medicine: Great case! A great clinician deduces the cause of a medical mystery, without using AI. Actually it would be interesting to see if AI could deduce the cause of this man's symptoms.
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Disgusting. Oregon Now Spends More On Program Offering Free Health Care For Illegal Immigrants Than State Police. It's for this that the government is currently shut down. Enough already.
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