godbox upgrade
It’ll be not long and I am back in the game. With ↵DX3 and the other goodies around it is obvious that after more than four and a half years an upgrade of my former ↵godbox has become unavoidable. Today … Continue reading →
Tag Archives: computing
flowchart shaders
Biohazard’s modding tool, the ↑Source Shader Editor, is a ↑WYSIWYG editor, which ‘allows the user to create, compile and implement new ↑shaders easily into a source ↑mod without any preliminary knowledge of HLSL. The shaders are based on nodes which … Continue reading →
larry cuba
Just dug that one up from my bookmarks—back in the 1970s ↑Larry Cuba, then at the ↑Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL), made the computer graphics seen during the endbattle against the Deathstar in the original ‘Star Wars’ (Lucas 1977). … Continue reading →
watson
More water on my mills, this time from an Op-Ed out of yesterday’s New York Times on Watson, IBM’s AI which will compete in Jeopardy! on Valentine’s day: It’s remarkable how much of the digital revolution has been driven by … Continue reading →
faceworld
elements
This site supports a course and a textbook that guide students through the construction of a modern, full-scale computer system (hardware and software) from first principles. In the process, the students practice many major computer science (CS) abstractions studied in … Continue reading →
lego antikythera
Andrew Carol’s hobby is building complex machines using LEGO [note the design of the site, and where it’s hosted]. After recreating Charles Babbage‘s difference engine, he now did the Antikythera mechanism. Have a look behind the scenes and watch the … Continue reading →
stuxnet
There is a brilliant article by Ed Barnes at FoxNews: ‘Mystery surrounds cyber missile that crippled Iran’s nuclear weapons ambitions.’ When I first read it, at the least when a third into the text, I would have thought it to … Continue reading →
the chess master and the computer
Not just in terms of ↵machine chess, but in general: ↑Garry Kasparov‘s article “↑The Chess Master and the Computer“ in The New York Review of Books is the best text I’ve read so far this year. initially via BK @ … Continue reading →
two bits
KELTY, CHRISTOPHER M. 2008. ↑Two bits: The cultural significance of free software. Durham: Duke University Press. Mandatory.
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