okaya

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How does it work? I thought different trees would need different amounts water, sunlight, etc. Combining too many different kinds would give suboptimal fruits. Are these apples, peaches as good as a single tree?

okaya

vor 11 Jahrendiscuss

Some interesting parts:

Sep 1947: ACM first meeting

Jan 1948: John von Neumann's thoughts on high-level languages(FORTRAN)

Oct 1957: Students' reaction to computerized registration

1 Oct 1969: First ARPANET transmission

1 May 1978: First spam email

12 Aug 1981: 16-bit IBM PC

1985-1989: Supercomputers made from Radio Shack parts

1993: The era of the search engine begins

1994-95: Windows and the Web take over. The diverse, rich, idiosyncratic history of computing stops here

Submissions

Why is religious language so pervasive in AI and transhumanist circles?

Mark Zuckerberg dismisses VR allegations

Why Some People Think a Typo Cost Clinton the Election

Why many programmers don’t bother joining the ACM(2014)

Is posting support for Paris on Facebook narcissistic, or heartfelt?

Sinicisation

A Chronology of Computing at Columbia University

Rules to avoid gratuitous gender profiles of female scientists

Columbia University Computing History

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