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The Early Years of Academic Computing

https://www.cs.cornell.edu/wya/AcademicComputing/text/dtss.html

reason, the operating environment was tailored to compile and run small programs very quickly. Dartmouth provided excellent compilers for PL/1 and for Basic, which reached maturit

On Vaclav Smil | Alex Alejandre

https://alexalejandre.com/finance/vaclav-smil/

profitable.) A zerosum environment produces zerosum mindsets, chasing efficiency However, when constrained to a fixed input budget, to chase efficiency a society will grow ever co
Interesting guy.

The Tom Bearden Website

https://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/ciencia/newenergy/defeatcancer/cancer.htm

control system. An environmental negative feedback mechanism is stated for long-term, cumulative causative mutation, yielding Sheldrake’s morphogenetic field , which is a species

simple multitask

http://wilsonminesco.com/multitask/

an execution environment that prevents user programs from affecting each other or an OS kernel, with the development of a protected environment not unlike that of a commercial mul

OS/Forth

https://www.forth.org/svfig/osf.html

a multi-tasking environment. A good example of this is a mouse driver, its' running, scanning a port and feeding information to an application, as an extension to the Operating Sy

https://www-users.cse.umn.edu/~odlyzko/doc/decline.txt

https://www-users.cse.umn.edu/~odlyzko/doc/decline.txt

an unfettered research environment for Einstein today, were he still alive. The difficulty is that there are now thousands of theoretical physicists who would like to be treated l

Stuff Michael Meeks is doing

https://apple-tree.life/~michael/blog/2020/

we build the economic environment right to attract this level of investment to perfect LibreOffice? how do we project manage, schedule, and plan that? how do we make the best engi

Jon Kleinberg's Homepage

https://www.cs.cornell.edu/home/kleinber/

in a hyperlinked environment. Proc. 9th ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms, 1998. Extended version in Journal of the ACM 46(1999). Also appears as IBM Research Report RJ 10

Try thinking of your culture and society as a battered wife « Isegoria

http://www.isegoria.net/2022/07/try-thinking-of-your-culture-and-society-as-a-battered-wife/

in a highly structured environment, where students’ time and behavior are tightly regulated. Progressives think that education should prioritize acquiring skills, that it should e

The Code of the Geeks v3.1 Generator

http://www.joereiss.net/geek/geek.html

the anarchic, trusting environment that so nurtures the exchange of information. Encryption just bogs that down. ( ) > PGP--- If you support encryption on the Internet, you mus

Isegoria

http://www.isegoria.net/

their hulls and risking environmentally damaging oil spills. Absent a strong Russian response, the Black Sea countershipping campaign could have ended in a decisive victory for Uk

Magic Ink: Information Software and the Graphical Interface

https://worrydream.com/MagicInk/

context from the environment Inferring context from history Interactivity Interactivity considered harmful Reducing interaction How did we get here? Intermission Case study: Train


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