Thank you, moderators, for fixing the title to point out that, sadly, this is invitation-only, for now. Not including that detail was an oversight on my part.
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No kidding. I tried to learn predicate logic by reading his works (mainly Methods of Logic). I wanted to throw his books across the room. I made it, but comparing his treatment of the completeness and compactness theorems with Tao's treatment was enlightening (and infuriating).
It's as though Quine worked hard at being obscure.
Note that only the standalone DIP-packaged variant of the Z80 will be discontinued. It does not apply to the embedded core variants.
EpubPress is a browser extension for Chrome & Firefox for turning your favorite web content into ebooks.
Benefits: 1)Removes ads and other distractions, for a cleaner reading experience. 2) Makes content available offline, for reading on the go. 3) Viewable on all your devices (Kindle, Nooks, iPhone, iPad, PC etc.). 4) Groups relevant content together.
This is a command line journaling application.
The Big List of Naughty Strings is a list of strings which have a high probability of causing issues when used as user-input data.
Here's an anecdote I heard once about Minsky. He was showing a student how to use ITS to write a program. ITS was an unusual operating system in that the 'shell' was the DDT debugger. You ran programs by loading them into memory and jumping to the entry point. But you can also just start writing assembly code directly into memory from the DDT prompt. Minsky started with the null program. Obviously, it needs an entry point, so he defined a label for that. He then told the debugger to jump to that label. This immediately raised an error of there being no code at the jump target. So he wrote a few lines of code and restarted the jump instruction. This time it succeeded and the first few instructions were executed. When the debugger again halted, he looked at the register contents and wrote a few more lines. Again proceeding from where he left off he watched the program run the few more instructions. He developed the entire program by 'debugging' the null program.
https://www.cringely.com/2013/07/30/the-origins-of-defcon/
The events in that article took place in 1993. Read the whole article, but here's the best bit.
Hotel security had mistakenly kicked out attendees at that conference, so they decided to get revenge by hacking their system. The is from Cringely:
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The meeting reconvened at 9 or 10 with the topic suddenly changed to Revenge on the Sands. Gail Thackeray, then a U. S. Attorney from Arizona who at that moment had approximately half the room under indictment, rose to offer her services representing the kids against the hotel management.
Thackeray had been invited to speak by the very people she wanted to put in jail. I told you this was surreal.
Adult assistance might be nice, but a potentially more satisfying alternative was offered by a group that had breached the hotel phone system, gained access to the computer network, obtained root level access to the VAX minicomputer that ran the Sands casino, and were ready at any moment to shut the sucker down. It came to a vote: accept Thackeray’s offer of assistance or shut down the casino.
There was no real contest: they voted to nuke the casino. Not one to be a party pooper, I voted with the majority.
Gail Thackeray, feeling her lawyer’s oats, was perfectly willing to be a party pooper, though. She explained with remarkable patience that opting en masse to commit a felony was a move that we might just want to reconsider, especially given the three strikes implications for some of the older participants.
We could accept her help or accept a date with the FBI that afternoon. The Sands (now the Venetian), which was ironically owned by the same folks who used to run Comdex, never knew how close it came to being dark.
It was a thrilling moment like you’d never see today. Everyone who was in that room shares a pirates’ bond. And though I can’t defend what we almost did, I don’t regret it.
And like the others, I wish Gail Thackeray had stayed in Arizona and we’d shut the sucker down.
"I'm beginning to suspect that this disk is nothing more than an infinite series of decryption routines with a game bolted on as an afterthought."
https://ia800209.us.archive.org/8/items/BurgerTime4amCrack/B...
Irresistible Integrals: Symbolics, Analysis and Experiments in the Evaluation of Integrals, by George Boros https://www.amazon.com/dp/0521796369/
Inside Interesting Integrals, by Paul J. Nahin https://www.amazon.com/Inside-Interesting-Integrals-Substitu...
Here's the last one:
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWovQ2ngdAQ
Merry Christmas, Hacker News.
The Eigenharp: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MR5qBtPRrM
The Artiphon Instrument1: https://artiphon.com/pages/instrument1
The Linnstrument: https://www.rogerlinndesign.com/linnstrument
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https://www.youtube.com/user/ComputerChroniclesYT
I admit that your archive link may be a better source.
Here are some more mathematics channels:
https://www.youtube.com/user/HarveyMuddCollegeEDU
https://www.youtube.com/c/Aleph0
https://www.youtube.com/c/3blue1brown
Here are some channels on physics:
https://www.youtube.com/c/TenMinutePhysics
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPZvrtffxEZ7KZQ9dYCG0xg <- Carver Mead's channel.
Here's something of historical interest: all of the episodes of The Computer Chronicles. https://www.youtube.com/user/ComputerChroniclesYT
https://lobste.rs/s/utdgs1/what_is_good_journaling_desktop#c...
Make an email account which only you know about. Send yourself mail to that account. Each mail is a journal entry. Any email client (desktop or mobile) becomes your journal editor. Mails are automatically time-stamped and can feature rich text and all of the attachments supported by modern email providers.
You can switch all of your mail to another email provider thanks to facilities built into email since the 1970s.
The last update was in 2006, but it's (in)famous for the acknowledgements section written by Olin Shivers.
Who should I thank? My so-called ``colleagues,'' who laugh at me behind my back, all the while becoming famous on *my* work? My worthless graduate students, whose computer skills appear to be limited to downloading bitmaps off of netnews? My parents, who are still waiting for me to quit ``fooling around with computers,'' go to med school, and become a radiologist? My department chairman, a manager who gives one new insight into and sympathy for disgruntled postal workers?
My God, no one could blame me—no one!—if I went off the edge and just lost it completely one day. I couldn't get through the day as it is without the Prozac and Jack Daniels I keep on the shelf, behind my Tops-20 JSYS manuals. I start getting the shakes real bad around 10am, right before my advisor meetings. A 10 oz. Jack 'n Zac helps me get through the meetings without one of my students winding up with his severed head in a bowling-ball bag. They look at me funny; they think I twitch a lot. I'm not twitching. I'm controlling my impulse to snag my 9mm Sig-Sauer out from my day-pack and make a few strong points about the quality of undergraduate education in Amerika.
If I thought anyone cared, if I thought anyone would even be reading this, I'd probably make an effort to keep up appearances until the last possible moment. But no one does, and no one will. So I can pretty much say exactly what I think.
Oh, yes, the *acknowledgements*. I think not. I did it. I did it all, by myself.