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Computation isn't Consciousness: The Chinese Room Experiment

https://lukesmith.neocities.org/vids/chinese_room

alking about AI and computers and all this kind of stuff, right? I don’t want to speak disparagingly, but stuff. So, the question is this: can a machine think? Now, that obviously

Character Model for the World Wide Web 1.0

https://www.w3.org/TR/2001/WD-charmod-20010928/

To be of any use in computers, in computer communications and in particular on the World Wide Web, characters must be encoded . In fact, much of the information processed by compu

Voyager Spacecraft and Fortran 5

http://www.geonius.com/writing/other/voyager.html

the Voyager onboard computers were not programmed in Fortran. My background: I'm a retired software developer. In the 1980s, I worked on the image processing ground system for NAS
Voyagers NOT programmed in Fortran 5

Character Model for the World Wide Web 1.0: Fundamentals

https://www.w3.org/TR/charmod/

sequences of bits that computers manipulate. Given the complexity of text encoding and the large variety of mechanisms for character encoding invented throughout the computer age,

WAI-ARIA 1.0 User Agent Implementation Guide

https://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria-implementation/

defined in a way that computers can process a representation of an object , such as elements and attributes , and reliably represent the object in a way that various humans will a

Stories

https://www.ed-thelen.org/comp-hist/stories.html

- Mar 02, 2013 Doing computers in the State of Washington - from Jordan Stedman , - Feb 17, 2013 Video Oral Histories of William Jolitz (FreeBSD) and Herb Kanner (research how com

http://www.catb.org/jargon/oldversions/jarg262.txt

http://www.catb.org/jargon/oldversions/jarg262.txt

else is an idiot. Also, computers should be tredecimal instead of binary. \end{Flame} The Scribe users at CMU and elsewhere used to use @Begin/@End in an identical way. On USENET,

The Retrocomputing Museum

http://www.catb.org/retro/

language, semi-object-oriented with LISP-like syntax. A superset of the infamous DDL (Dungeon Definition Language). Available for Unix, MS-DOS, Amiga and Acorn. You can find other
A museum of archaic computer languages

Using the MM email client in the Modern World

https://kermitproject.org/mm/

email even on Unix computers that no longer support mailspool delivery by using secure POP3 (Post Office Protocol) to fetch your new mail; you can send and receive mail in ISO 885

Old, but Interesting Programs

http://invisible-island.net/personal/oldprogs.html

But I could see that computers could do more than compute. I tried writing a program to generate anagrams. That did not go well. Larry Tessler (a less-known Tesler ). advised me t
Thomas Dickey has been writing software programs since 1970, and discusses here some of the more interesting ones.

Emergent Technologies Inc. -- Security Kernel</TITLE

http://mumble.net/~jar/pubs/secureos/secureos.html

dungeon) or MOO (MUD object-oriented)) simulates a world with a number of places (rooms) and inhabited by users (players or characters). A MUSE typically runs on a network and acc
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Orgy of the Will: A Philosophy of the Future

http://orgyofthewill.net/

require thousand-dollar computers to run, you can certainly afford five dollars per month to spend on quality reading material, and merely the daily running commentary and discuss


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