Happy birthday to Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee. Things besides the WWW that didn’t exist before TBL:
– Google – Facebook – YouTube – Instagram – Netflix – Uber
– Spotify – Bitcoin – Venmo Image v/Sotheby's & @Gizmodo
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Tim Berners-Lee’s Web: Foundation for Digital Giants
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First Woman Computer Science PhD: Mary Keller’s BASIC Legacy
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#otd in 1965, a nun named Mary Keller became the first woman to earn a computer science PhD in the US. She later helped developed #BASIC: http://
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AI Student Learns Balance Between Imitation and Reinforcement Learning
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Algorithm balances imitation & reinforcement learning to optimize student machine performance. Like a tennis novice learning from a pro, the AI student learns when to follow the teacher & when to forge its own path: http://
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Job Market Challenges for Recent Graduates in AI Era
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Overcomplicating Code: When Simplicity Meets Expertise
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“In programming, if someone tells you “you’re overcomplicating this,” they’re either 10 steps behind you or 10 steps ahead of you.” — Andrew Clark credit: @CodeWisdom
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The Internet’s Most Famous Cartoon Turns 30 Years Old
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30 years ago, @NewYorker published what is now its most reproduced cartoon: “On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog.”
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MIT Algorithm Creates Perspective Art Installation with Computed Layouts
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MIT researchers designed an art installation using an algorithm that arranges images in a perspective layout that looks uniform. Now on display at the Fitchburg Art Museum, it's made from folded paper printed w/computed layouts & thousands of characters: https://
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Robots Master Fluid Dynamics with Differentiable GPU Physics Simulator
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Robots conquer complex fluid dynamics from latte art to ice cream rolls, using a GPU-accelerated, fully differentiable physics simulator: https://t.co/63rytplJ5E pic.twitter.com/VbakGpuZfs
— MIT CSAIL (@MIT_CSAIL) 29 mai 2023Robots conquer complex fluid dynamics from latte art to ice cream rolls, using a GPU-accelerated, fully differentiable physics simulator: https://
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Alan Turing’s Universal Machine Ushered Computer Age 1936
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#otd in 1936, Alan Turing's "Universal Machine" proposal ushered in the computer age: http://
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MIT ML Model Identifies Materials in Images for Robot Interaction
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MIT researchers develop ML model that can identify all the pixels & highlight similar materials in an image, potentially helping robots interact with objects in the real world: http://
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