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El Reg: "Quantum code breaking? You'd get further with an 8-bit computer, an abacus, and a dog"
https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/17/quantum_cryptanalysis_criticism/?td=rt-3a

Quantum code breaking? You'd get further with an 8-bit computer, an abacus, and a dog
: Computer scientist Peter Gutmann tells The Reg why it's 'bollocks

from my link log —
Rod Bustall: in memoriam.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.06456
saved 2025-08-05 https://dotat.at/:/SKAE7.html

Rod Bustall: In Memoriam
This is an obituary of Rod Burstall, written in his honour. Rod was a prominent computer scientist whose contributions span over forty years. Most of his career was spent at Edinburgh University. He lead the team programming Freddy, the first hand-eye assembly robot, with much of his effort being devoted to the development of the POP-2 programming language. He became interested in a mathematical approach to software development: he recognised the central role of structural induction; his work o…

Eh ben voilŠ, on découvre les réseaux de neurones artificiels mais on néglige de regarder "Alien" . 🙄
« Hinton believes “the only hope” for humanity is engineering AI to become mothers to us, “because the mother is very concerned about the baby, preserving the life of the baby”, and its development. “That’s the kind of relationship we should be aiming for.”» (Source : Financial Times,

Computer scientist Geoffrey Hinton: ‘AI will make a few people much richer and most people poorer’
The ‘godfather of artificial intelligence’ on ‘the only hope’ for humanity, why China has an advantage — and when machines will outstrip us

Research reveals how microplastics threaten Gulf of Mexico marine life #GulfOfMexico

Research reveals how microplastics threaten Gulf of Mexico marine life
Critical wildlife habitats are exposed to pollution risk in the seas off the southern United States, with implications for human health and food security. "Most of the pollution comes from rivers and not from wastewater treatment plants," says CMCC scientist Annalisa Bracco, co-author of the study that used advanced computer models to track tiny plastic particles across three years.

What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About Floating-Point Arithmetic #floats

Cal Newport: Why you should quit social media | TED Talk
https://www.ted.com/talks/cal_newport_why_you_should_quit_social_media
> Does quitting social media make you an unemployable Luddite? Computer scientist Dr. Cal Newport doesn't think so. I…

«In the 1950 book “The Human Use of Human Beings,” the computer scientist Norbert Wiener […] argued that modern societies were run by means of messages. As these societies grew larger and more complex, he wrote, a greater amount of their affairs would depend upon “messages between man and machines, between machines and man, and between machine and machine.” Artificially intelligent machines can send and respond to messages much faster than we can, and in far greater volume—that’s one source …

"Research reveals how microplastics threaten Gulf of Mexico marine life"
#Mexico #Plastic #Plastics #Microplastics

Research reveals how microplastics threaten Gulf of Mexico marine life
Critical wildlife habitats are exposed to pollution risk in the seas off the southern United States, with implications for human health and food security. "Most of the pollution comes from rivers and not from wastewater treatment plants," says CMCC scientist Annalisa Bracco, co-author of the study that used advanced computer models to track tiny plastic particles across three years.

What does a computer scientist say when they cut down a tree?
Tim Berners Lee

from my link log —
Boolean blindness.
https://existentialtype.wordpress.com/2011/03/15/boolean-blindness/
saved 2024-09-21

Boolean Blindness
I hate Booleans!  But isn’t everything “just bits”?  Aren’t computers built from gates?  And aren’t gates just the logical connectives?  How can a Computer Scientist p…