Visualization of the semi-chronological chapter layout of Haigh and Ceruzzi's “A New History of Modern Computing” (MIT, 2021). This new architecture was one of the main changes introduced to rework Ceruzzi's previous version (1998).
#viz #computerscience #history #computerhistory #book
Source: https://www.tomandmaria.com/Tom/Writing/WritingThe%20BigStory_PREPRINT.pdf
She Was Headed for Medical School. Now She’s Researching Technology Bias In Our Justice System. – Bwog https://www.byteseu.com/999771/ #AI #barnard #ComputerScience #CriminalJustice #CuWomenInStem #LAW #Research #ResearchSpotlight #Science #Technology
People say it's a misconception that quantum computers can evaluate a function on all its possible inputs in parallel. But actually a lot of quantum algorithms do begin by applying a function to a superposition of all possible inputs. It's just that after that point you need to do some difficult linear algebra and you can't always extract the information you want.
In fact, you can define a lot of important complexity classes in this way. The set of problems solvable in polynomial time with an oracle that evaluates a given circuit on all its possible inputs and tells you …
P: … nothing.
BPP: … a randomly chosen output.
PP: … a majority output.
NP: … if any of the outputs is nonzero.
co-NP: … if all of the outputs are nonzero.
PSPACE: … a fixed point.
Just graduated with my master's degree in #ComputerScience from the University of #Illinois #Springfield
Which do professors value more: Applied #research or #theory?
Sadly, #computerScience faculty in the #UnitedStates exhibited a #bias against applied #science, which had worse #career outcomes and greater representation of women.
Unfortunately, my horse power computer is now offline. And I am in another city so no access to it. It's likely that there has been a #poweroutage which is now very common in my country #iran
I am doing experiments with #wakegp to see if my simple method for parsimony pressure is effective. Till now, it seems that its effect is very little. I'm thinking of other methods for parsimony pressure such as bucketing and tournament selection(for size instead of fitness).
I am expecting to deliver results in summer, God willing.
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https://www.europesays.com/uk/84341/ Aston University spearheads UK neuromorphic computing centre #ArtificialIntelligence #ComputerScience #Computing #DisruptiveTechnology #Technology #UK #UnitedKingdom
The Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing Conference is being held in ... Texas.
I imagine a significant fraction of the target audience would, justifiably, not feel safe there.
EDSAC, the first practical electronic digital stored-program computer, ran its first operation OTD in 1949 https://cromwell-intl.com/open-source/raspberry-pi/networking.html?s=mb #ComputerScience #history
"Learn how to do it yourself. Use the mechanical aids, but learn what you’re doing. A general problem with these large language models is that they will give you confident answers that are total nonsense, and if you don’t understand what you’re doing well enough, you will not recognize what the nonsense is."
The undefeatable Brian Kernighan on the joys of teaching and the sadness of genAI.
Thanks to @aka_pugs
for the link.
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Semiconductor photonic quantum chips in Luxembourg https://www.byteseu.com/976146/ #ComputerScience #ContributorProfile #Luxembourg #QuantumTechnology #TheInnovationPlatformIssue22
Dear people. Please understand that LLMs are not AI. Don't use phrases like "code generation with AI". Use the term LLM instead. LLMs are just a tiny subset of machine learning which itself is a subset of AI science.
So I'm curious. I'm thinking about using #nix as a way to reproducibly manage scientific results and the computational dependencies between those, specifically simulations and their outcomes.
Some of those simulations involve measuring the execution time of a given algorithm, and plotting those times on a graph. That graph would then be integrated into a report or a paper of some sort, which would be the build artefact.
Issue is... those execution time measurements aren't 100% deterministic. Not down-to-the-microsecond reproducible. Hence, the results are technically not reproducible either.
Obviously, Nix is a software build tool, not meant for what I'm using it for here, but... I still find the notion of these reproducible, cacheable units with pure-functional relationships of one deriving from another to be very appealing.
Thoughts?
#academia #computerscience #nix #nixos
Hugo Krawczyk – ACM Paris Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award
For pioneering and lasting contributions to the theoretical foundations of cryptographically secure communications, and to the protocols that form the security foundations of the Internet.
https://bit.ly/4jBJjHX
Congratulations to all the awardees shaping the future of computing!
semester is winding down. My goal for summer is to read a bunch of #computerscience and #programming books over summer and build stuff. I need to find a job in software, IT, or ideally games. I need to build my resume and skill set through making stuff and learning stuff and learning stuff through making stuff.
The modern tech industry is very weird (Not just the big name MEGACORPS) and finding a job seems to be a multi-stage boss fight. I gotta get some decent “gear” by building my skills.
