"... In 1971, three student teachers in Minneapolis, MN created a little computer game about westward expansion in the United States. Over 50 years later, The Oregon Trail series has sold more than 65... continue reading
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This is a bit of a mind-bender, but entirely worth the watch if you're at all interested in mathematics or computer science. Possibly even if you're not, but I'm uncertain. I had previously learned... continue reading
posted by moonsammy 3 years 2 weeks ago • 634 viewsProfessors John Kemeny and Tom Kurtz along with a band of Dartmouth undergraduates invent the Basic computer language.
posted by bobknight33 3 years 2 months 2 weeks ago • 9 views • 38:13How the new M1 is the fastest CPU to date, even Intel, with so little power consumed.
posted by bobknight33 3 years 6 months ago • 118 views • 26:28YT: Time to tell a story about idempotency, computer science, and the Night of the Multiple Orders.
posted by Fantomas 4 years 9 months 4 weeks ago • 41 views • 8:26YouTube description: Perhaps the most dramatic moment of Apollo 11's mission to the moon was when the Eagle began its final descent to the lunar surface and the Apollo Guidance Computer became overloaded.... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 4 years 10 months 3 weeks ago • 766 views • 7:18From Youtube, "Paul demonstrates different things you might use as cover in a home defense situation. Paul's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=5769301 This video was edited and uploaded by: Brad Nelson ... continue reading
posted by w1ndex 4 years 11 months 2 weeks ago • 29 views • 19:11Using foundational computer science theories, Colin Morris focuses on understanding trends in popular music. Borrowing from the areas of bioinformatics and compression algorithms, he shows that the lyrics... continue reading
posted by notarobot 5 years 2 months 4 weeks ago • 140 views • 14:23Measuring time is a complicated thing. Computers, banks, and stock markets in Denmark all use UTC, the international standard: but according to the law, they shouldn't.
posted by Mordhaus 5 years 3 months 2 weeks ago • 316 views • 6:30YouTube description: You can tell a lot about an animal from the way it moves, which is why scientists have been recreating the movements of an extinct crocodile-like creature called Orobates pabsti.... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 4 months 3 weeks ago • 441 views • 4:19YouTube description: Behind the Scenes: https://youtu.be/3HABgm-UUi0 Download Skunkworks! http://www.audible.com/Smarter ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ GET SMARTER SECTION Check out Derek's video... continue reading
posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 5 months 1 week ago • 855 views • 11:21"... an educational video produced by The Computer Museum and hosted by David Neil of PBS's Newton's Apple. Join David Neil and his four young companions on an entertaining and illuminating trek through... continue reading
posted by ant 5 years 7 months 1 week ago • 30 views • 26:32Computer-generated videos are getting more realistic and even harder to detect thanks to deep learning and artificial intelligence. As WSJ’s Jason Bellini finds in this episode of Moving Upstream, these... continue reading
posted by bobknight33 5 years 7 months 2 weeks ago • 33 viewsyoutube- TEDx Talks Published on Sep 7, 2017 Imagine a global "Hive Mind" that can tap the knowledge, wisdom, insights, and intuitions of millions of people, and produce a super-intelligence that is... continue reading
posted by Buck 6 years 8 months 3 weeks ago • 119 views • 15:59Plywood is a simple material made by glueing together thin sheets of wood, known as veneers or plies. These basic elements have remained broadly the same throughout its history. The most significant breakthrough... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 6 years 8 months 3 weeks ago • 1,947 views • 6:44Computers store text (or, at least, English text) as eight bits per character. There are plenty of more efficient ways that could work: so why don't we use them? And how can we fit more text into less... continue reading
posted by Mordhaus 6 years 8 months 4 weeks ago • 64 views • 6:31YouTube: We live in an era of self driving cars, autonomous drones, deep learning algorithms, computers that beat humans at chess and go, and so on. So it’s natural to ask, will artificial superintelligence... continue reading
posted by PlayhousePals 6 years 9 months 1 week ago • 297 views • 4:14