Alles #Geschichte - Der History-Podcast: DAS WAR DER #BAUERNKRIEG - Das Ende des Regenbogens (3/4)
https://www.br.de/mediathek/podcast/alles-geschichte-history-von-radiowissen/das-war-der-bauernkrieg-das-ende-des-regenbogens-3-4/2103816

Today, an #offpunk user encountered a bug: a #gemini page could not be opened and was considered as "message/news".

I quickly pushed a workaround and investigated. The "message/news" was returned by the venerable "file" (which is on every *nix system since the last 50 years).

I wrote to the "file" mailing-list, had a nice exchange and managed to find the bug in "file". Which was promptly fixed by the maintainer and will be soon on your machine.

I ❤️ free software!

#unix #computinghistory

Alles #Geschichte - Der History-Podcast: DAS WAR DER #BAUERNKRIEG - Die Blutspur des Bauernjörg (2/4)
https://www.br.de/mediathek/podcast/alles-geschichte-history-von-radiowissen/das-war-der-bauernkrieg-die-blutspur-des-bauernjoerg-2-4/2103815

#SPD "Scholzen" #Scholz ist #Geschichte; ⚠️ Si vis pacem para bellum ⚠️ Schafft #CDU #Merz - #MAGA #Trump - #RuZZ Put.in ab ! ! ! Sonst schaffen sie #uns ab ! ! ! Kauft Gaskocher - Trockennahrung - tut so, als sei 2 Monate KEIN Strom u. Wasser da ! #Habeck4Kanzler - Der Einzige, der helfen kann.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:o4zkmboeprqmrcnzseb2k7hv/post/3ljb5lqym3s2w

Hello #fediverse #introduction

I'm Michael, professor in the institutes of #mathematics and #materials science and head of the @MatMat group at #EPFL.

I work on the #atomistic simulations of materials, mainly density-functional theory (DFT) methods, understanding #simulation errors and #uncertainties in predicted materials properties.

I use techniques from
#physics #computerscience #machinelearning and
develop related #julia packages such as the density-functional toolkit (#dftk).

Workshop: Large Language Models for the History, Philosophy & Sociology of Science April 2–4, 2025 TU Berlin, Germany & Online 16 contributed talks on LLM use cases & implications Free and open to the public—registration encouraged! #AI #HistoryOfScience #PhilosophyOfScience #LLMs

Workshop "LLMs for HPSS" - TU ...

Workshop: Large Language Models for the History, Philosophy & Sociology of Science
April 2–4, 2025
TU Berlin, Germany & Online
Exploring how LLMs can address challenges in HPSS research
Keynotes by Iryna Gurevych, Nina Tahmasebi & Pierluigi Cassotti
16 contributed talks on LLM use cases & implications

Free and open to the public—registration encouraged! More info: https://www.tu.berlin/hps-mod-sci/workshop-llms-for-hpss](https://www.tu.berlin/hps-mod-sci/workshop-llms-for-hpss
#AI #HistoryOfScience #PhilosophyOfScience #SociologyOfScience #LLMs

Die Antwort auf die Eureka! Frage des Tages

"Residenz eines türkischen Herrschers"

lautet: "SERAIL"

#Eureka #Kreuzworträtsel #Quiz #EurekaFrage #Geschichte

I just published blog post in which I explore the fascinating world of succinct data structures. I didn't know these existed until recently. If you don't either, this blog post should help fix that.

#ComputerScience #rustlang

Community of Practice Projektmanagement diskutiert „Lean Project Management“
https://pmqs.de/community-of-practice-projektmanagement-diskutiert-lean-project-management

#erfahrungsaustausch #gi #informatik #lean #leanprojectmanagement #lpm #nachrichten #projektmanagement #wirsindinformatik

#meta #ai #models #phdThesis #computerscience #phdstudent #doctoratestudent #phd #doctorate #motivation #meme #memes #phdmotivation #phdmeme #phdmemes #phdlife #phdstudentlife #phdtroll #doctoratemotivation #doctoratememe #doctoratememes #doctoratelife #doctoratestudentlife #doctoratetroll

Inside the Stargazers’ Palace: The Transformation of Science in 16th-Century Northern Europe, by Violet Moller
Astronomy in the immediate aftermath of Copernicus, through the focus of seven northern European locations.
https://fromtheheartofeurope.eu/inside-the-stargazers-palace-the-transformation-of-science-in-16th-century-northern-europe-by-violet-moller/
#Uncategorized #Bookblog2025 #HistoryOfScience

PVM-Tagung 2025: Zukunft des Projektmanagements im Zeichen von Post-Agilität, Resilienz und Transformation

Sie können ab sofort Beiträge einreichen.

#agil #agile #agillität #digitaletransformation #erfahrungsaustausch #gi #informatik #postagilität #projekt #projekte #projektmanagement #resilienz #tagung #transformation #wirsindinformatik

Spannend: "We trained diffusion large language models that are up to 10x faster and cheaper than current LLMs, pushing the frontier of intelligence and speed for language models." #bluelz #KI #Informatik #AI #diffusion #LLM #LLMs @erikgrundmann.bsky.social www.inceptionlabs.ai/news

Inception Labs

Ich hör mich immer noch durch Vorträge des #38c3
#Klimaschädlich by Design – die ökologischen Kosten des KI-Hypes bringt nichts neues aber gute Zusammenfassung, Zahlen und Begriffklärungen, die Verwechlungen aufdröseln. Fazit: generative #KI schluckt mehr als der Ausbau der Erneuerbaren und kann die Klimaneutralität der #EU verhindern.
Wer wenig Zeit hat, kann bei 10Min einsteigen.

#protest #Klima #Klimaschutz #ccc #informatik #noplanetb #fff #strom #AI #klimawandel #no

Serious #astronomy #historyofscience question.

If folks thought we lived in a geocentric universe, how did they explain the variation in the lengths of days over the course of the year? Did the Sun literally speed up and slow down as it orbited the Earth over a year?

Things I think about when driving.

A coffee story: The original live streaming star

#networking #computingHistory #coffee #1990s

While the world builds AI Agents, I'm just building calculators — https://www.calcverse.live
#HackerNews #AI #Agents #Calculators #Innovation #Tech #Community #Building

#Calculators When items like these were first introduced, decades ago, they cost hundreds of dollars. Today, the price is less than $20 and they're sold in drug stores. #Technology

Radical Software: Women, Art & Computing 1960-1991 (Vienna, 28 Feb 25) explores the role of women in the development of computing and digital art. A one-day symposium at TU Wien features keynotes, panels & discussions with leading scholars & artists.
https://informatics.tuwien.ac.at/news/2833

#DigitalArt #ComputingHistory #WomenInTech #ArtAndTechnology #RadicalSoftware

I finished reading Jill Lepore's "If Then: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future". It's in some ways a history of the 1960s, but the focus keeps returning to the scientists (mainly Ithiel de Sola Pool) who try to use computer modeling to solve elections, wars, civil unrest, and (of course) marketing. The author is really mad that this early "data science" era has dropped off the radar of today's practitioners -- and that despite the controversies and (extremely bad) fiction about it, we didn't get any sort of data protection laws in the U.S.

But, the book undercuts its premise in a lot of ways by emphasizing how _bad_ Simulmatics was at its jobs, particularly its ARPA contracts in Vietnam. This historical analysis -- mismanagement, translators and interview subjects who said what researchers wanted to hear, poor personnel choices, and unrealistic goals -- obscures the fact that what they were trying simply would not work, even if executed perfectly.

You cannot feed a statistical model a bunch of data, analyze correlations, then start making accurate predictions about interventions like "talk more about civil rights" or "give Vietnamese communities more televisions" (no, seriously.) It doesn't work, not because people are fundamentally unpredictable, but because (a) people are actors too -- your study subjects and opponents get to take their own actions in response to yours, and (b) correlation is not causation. But the "big data only" approach pioneered by Simulmatics doesn't even try to validate model accuracy via experiment!

#books #ComputingHistory

"A calculator app? Anyone could make that.

Not true.

A calculator should show you the result of the mathematical expression you entered. That's much, much harder than it sounds.

What I'm about to tell you is the greatest calculator app development story ever told."

#Mathematics #Calculators #Computation #Arithmetic

@AmenZwa Agreed! My #RPN #calculators are a HP-12C, DM16L, DM42 and HP Prime. I also use Free42 on my phone.

Fighting Words:

If you, like me, are still using #calculators in 2025, the only sensible input method for such ingenious devices is the equally ingenious Reverse-Polish Notation (#RPN), and the only acceptable manufacturer of such devices was the original Hewlett-Packard (HP).

Vintage #HP RPN all the way, baby! Ah well, OK; new #SwissMicros RPN, too.

Ctrl Alt Rees (aka Rees) posts in-depth videos about retro computing and retro gaming, especially old PCs and Atari game consoles. You can follow their video account at:

➡️ @rees

There are already over 300 videos uploaded. If they haven't federated to your server yet, you can browse them all at https://makertube.net/a/rees/videos

You can also follow Rees's general social media account at @ctrlaltrees

#FeaturedPeerTube #ComputingHistory #RetroComputing #RetroGaming #Atari #PeerTube #PeerTubers