Tag: ai
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Links van 8 tot 10 januari 2026
The Napoleon Technique: Postponing Things to Increase Productivity – Effectiviology The Napoleon technique is a productivity technique that involves postponing dealing with something if it’s likely to get resolved without your immediate input. For example, based on the Napoleon technique, you could decide to wait a day before replying to emails that ask for your…
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Links van 5 tot 7 januari 2026
Pipe Dreams: The life and times of Yahoo Pipes In 2007, a small team at Yahoo! briefly changed how we program the internet. This is their story. Ik weet nog precies hoe ik ernaar keek en de toekomst zag. Fantastisch ding. yahoo, pipes The great shift of English prose I propose a different story. The…
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Links van 4 tot 5 januari 2026
Adventure 751 (1980) | Renga in Blue Adventure 751 has been, by my reckoning, the most sought-after variation of Crowther/Woods Adventure. It was generally available on the online portal CompuServe from nearly the beginning of the service and it disappeared when they shut down their games in the 90s. Arthur O’Dwyer started a web page…
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Links van 1 tot 4 januari 2026
Turning 20 while the world turns upside-down | Parv Mahajan I turn 20 in January, and the world looks very strange. Probably, lots of jobs will be gone soon. Probably, the smartest thing alive will no longer be human. Probably, things will change very quickly. Maybe, one of those things is whether or not we’re…
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Links van 25 december 2025 tot 1 januari 2026
Knuth: Knight's Tours in Olin Hall Knuth is a national treasure — Knight's tours are one of humankind's earliest known combinatorial patterns. They originated in Kashmir and Persia, about 1200 years ago, and they've had a substantial, continuous history ever since then — first in Asia, then eventually in Europe, and finally in the Americas,…
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Links van 18 tot 24 december 2025
Open Access We are pleased to share an important milestone for our field. Beginning January 2026, all ACM publications and related artifacts in the ACM Digital Library will be made open access. This change reflects the long-standing and growing call across the global computing community for research to be more accessible, more discoverable, and more…
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Links van 14 tot 18 december 2025
The Rise of Computer Games, Part I: Adventure – Creatures of Thought Author’s note: I originally intended for this post to cover adventure games, computer role-playing games, wargames and other simulations, a brief look at the home video game market, and finally the rise of hybrids that fused home video game systems with personal computers.…
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Links van 28 november tot 1 december 2025
20 Years of ZBrush… And I'm Blown Away by Nomad Er zijn geen zekerheden meer — "After almost 20 years of using ZBrush, we are giving Nomad a try! This is our first impressions of Nomad after using it for a few weeks. We're covering both the ipad and desktop version of Nomad" 3D, sculpture,…
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Links van 10 tot 22 oktober 2025
Microsoft is taking steps to open-sourcing Windows 11 user interface framework – Neowin Microsoft wants to make Windows 11’s UI framework open-source, and it has shared details about this complex process. UI, microsoft HTML is Dead, Long Live HTML — Acko.net Reinventing the DOM to ditch all legacy baggage could coincide with redesigning it for…
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Links van 19 april tot 13 mei 2025
“Alien Life and How to Find It” presented by Clara Sousa Silva Professor Clara Sousa-Silva presents “Alien Life, and How to Find It”. Over the last few decades, scientists have found thousands of planets beyond our own. Some of those planets might be habitable, and perhaps even inhabited already; but how can we tell? Clara…
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Links van 20 februari tot 1 maart 2025
Hittite Monuments A list of monuments from Hittite civilization with images and brief information. Hittieten, archeologie, geschiedenis (6105) The Discovery of a New Bronze and Iron Age Kingdom in Turkey: The Site of Türkmen-Karahöyük – YouTube Türkmen-Karahöyük is een recent ontdekte archeologische site in Centraal-Anatolië die een onbekend Bronstijd- en IJzertijd-koninkrijk onthult. Uit een inscriptie,…
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Links van 27 januari tot 6 februari 2025
The leading AI models are now very good historians The headaches that LLMs have caused in the classroom are (I believe) more than counterbalanced by what they can offer as tools for research and self-directed learning. For this reason, I’m now even more optimistic about the long-term impact and utility of AI tools for historical…
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Links van 13 tot 24 december 2024
Mirror Bacteria Research Poses Significant Risks, Dozens of Scientists Warn | The Scientist Magazine ® We recently joined a number of other scientists in calling for a certain line of research to not be pursued: work that could result in the creation of “mirror bacteria.” These are bacteria made of all components that natural cells…
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Links van 6 tot 13 november 2024
Carl Sagan’s scientific legacy extends far beyond ’Cosmos’ On what would’ve been the astronomer’s 90th trip around the Sun, here’s a look at his legacy as a scientist, advocate and communicator. wetenschap, Carl Sagan Solving the Siberian Crater Mystery In the northern reaches of Russia, enigmatic craters have begun appearing in broad expanses of windswept…
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Links van 11 tot 15 oktober 2024
The life-changing magic of Japanese clutter | Aeon Essays In the late 20th century, Japan was known for its minimalism: its Zen arts, its tidy and ordered cities, its refined foods and fashions. But Tsuzuki peeled away this façade to reveal a more complicated side to his nation. And Tokyo was the perfect setting for…