The Weekly Squeak — Responsible AI with Shlomi Hod, the wierd web and fax on the beach
This episode I speak with Shlomi Hod about responsible AI, look at the worst D&D monster of all, hello world in assembly, and more.
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45 Abandoned Places Around the World That Are Eerily Beautiful — www.cntraveler.com
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D&D: 2020 Is The Year We Defeat The Scheduling Monster — www.belloflostsouls.net
One enemy has defeated more heroes than any other monster or villain you can think. Time (and by extension space). Until today, that is. When I first got into gaming the hardest problem I faced was finding people to play with. At the time, D&D hadn’t quite blossomed into this huge.
Friend of a Friend: The Facebook That Could Have Been — twobithistory.org
The FOAF standard, or Friend of a Friend standard, is a now largely defunct/ignored/superseded1 web standard dating from the early 2000s that hints at what social networking might have looked like had Facebook not conquered the world.
Fax on the beach : The story of the audacious, totally calamitous iPad of the ’90s — www.inputmag.com
Back in 1993, a series of ads narrated by a post-Magnum P.I. Tom Selleck and directed by a pre-Fight Club David Fincher offered some eerily prescient visions of the future of tech. My favorite of the bunch begins with a boy reading a book on a large CRT monitor.
Alexa can now beat you at two popular board games — www.polygon.com
Amazon’s Alexa digital assistant can now play two popular board games, Ticket to Ride and Ticket to Ride Europe. These aren’t simply digital ports of the modern classics; you’ll actually need physical copies of the games in order to play.
Can the Weird Web make a comeback in 2020? — www.itsnicethat.com
Neal Agarwal has been coding since he was ten years old and graduated from Virginia Tech with a degree in computer science. He’s interested in combining creativity and technology, as you can see in all of his projects.
Hello World…Not so easy in Assembly — towardsdatascience.com
In this blog post I will walk through a Hello World program in assembly (RISC style Nios II architecture).
An elegy for cash: the technology we might never replace — www.technologyreview.com
Think about the last time you used cash. How much did you spend? What did you buy, and from whom? Was it a one-time thing, or was it something you buy regularly? Was it legal?
