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Memoirs of the CP/M creator released:
“Our father, Gary Kildall, was one of the founders of the personal computer industry, but you probably don’t know his name. Those who have heard of him may recall the myth that he ‘missed’ the opportunity to become Bill Gates by going flying instead of meeting with IBM. Unfortunately, this tall tale paints Gary as a ‘could-have-been,’ ignores his deep contributions, and overshadows his role as an inventor of key technologies that define how compute…

In His Own Words: Gary Kildall
Gary Kildall was a pioneer of personal computer software. He wrote programming language tools, including assemblers (Intel 4004), interpreters (BASIC), and compilers (PL/M). He created a widely-used disk operating system (CP/M). He and his wife, Dorothy McEwen, started a successful company called Digital Research to develop and market CP/M, which for years was the dominant operating system for personal microcomputers. Thousands of programs were written to run under it, and a million or more peo…

“What if AI Doesn’t Get Much Better Than This?” – a pretty good summary for those who don't want to read Gary Marcus’s rather… elaborate… treatizes.
> I think it’s safe, at least for now, to turn your attention away from the tech titans’ increasingly hyperbolic claims
🧘‍♂️
https://ca…

What if AI Doesn’t Get Much Better Than This? - Cal Newport
In the years since ChatGPT’s launch in late 2022, it’s been hard not to get swept up in feelings of euphoria or dread about the ... Read more

Anna #Lapwood ist demnächst auch öfter im Kulturpalast zu hören. Das Konzert mit der Filmmusik im November ist leider schon ausverkauft, aber für Februar gibt es noch Karten.
https://www1.wdr.de/nachric…

Kilometerlange Schlange: Organistin spielt Gratis-Konzert im Dom
Am Dienstagabend herrschte vor dem Kölner Dom großer Andrang. Der Grund: Zwei kostenlose Konzerte der Organistin Anna Lapwood .

Marcus Meyer schafft Tierskulpturen mit Holz von Bäumen, die auf Grund von Krankheit am Sterben oder bereits tot waren. Seine Tiere habe Verletzungen - die Formen sind unvollständig. Er zeigt #DieLetztenIhrerArt und macht auf das Sterben unserer Umwelt aufmerksam.
Schweinswale, kleine Tümmler sehen wir heute auch in Kieler Förde. Aber unsere Kinder und Kindeskinder?

"Zo neemt het gebruik van groene stroom minder snel toe dan verwacht, schrijft demissionair minister Hermans van Groene Groei en Klimaat (VVD) in een Kamerbrief.
Voornaamste oorzaak is dat de verduurzaming van de industrie moeizaam verloopt en fabrieken dus langer gebruik moeten maken van fossiele brandstoffen als olie, aardgas en steenkool."
♻️ Perpetuum mobile of drogredenering?

Kabinet snoeit flink in plannen voor windenergie op de Noordzee
Na veel slecht nieuws over windenergie op zee stelt het demissionaire kabinet het streefdoel officieel naar beneden bij.

Anyone identify this bird? (Just seen in Manchester, UK). It looks way too small and ungainly for a heron, but moderately long neck. hmm.

Soeben eine Absage einer booking.com -Unterkunft erhalten, wegen des medizinischen Assistenzhunds 🐕‍🦺 meiner Frau, und weil angeblich Booking.com die Beschränkung "mindestens 4 Nächte" nicht übernommen hätte.
Habe die Buchung storniert (zum Glück kostenfrei weil genügend früh), aber die Gastgeber auf das Behindertengleichstellungsgesetz hingewiesen.

Gray matter abnormalities in sight deprivation and sight restoration https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00429-025-02994-6 "white matter may potentially serve as a biomarker of structural plasticity following sight restoration"; brain plasticity

Gray matter abnormalities in sight deprivation and sight restoration - Brain Structure and Function
Blindness provides a unique model for investigating brain plasticity in response to sensory deprivation. While structural changes in both gray and white matter have been widely documented, particularly in cases of early or congenital visual deprivation, gray matter studies have traditionally focused on cortical thickness, often finding cortical thickening in posterior regions. However, other aspects of gray matter integrity, such as cortical myelin content, remain underexplored. In this study, …

I’ve been doing an unholy amount of weeding recently and keep seeing these little spiders fleeing my progress. Many are carrying a tiny white ball and so I looked them up out of curiosity.
Apparently they are “Rabid Wolf Spiders”, which sounds like they themselves got to pick it out and sought something impressively terrifying so that humans would leave them alone. It’s certainly a misnomer since spiders cannot be rabid.
The white ball is an egg sac.