The Eternal Doorman

My comment ; That was really interesting. Thank you. The causal gap between reading binary integers off a paper tape and the movement of the tool in that MIT machine controller is intriguing. There's quite a lot to do, because you have to parse the stream of numbers into at least x, y and z movements, but there must also have been some sort of timing control or feedback-driven wait condition. That's not too much short of a Turing nachine. In the early seventies, losses in a manufacturing downturn in the US, caused by tightening credit and a slowdown in the aerospace industry in the mid sixties, resulted in the merger of most small macine-tool businesses. See the book  When the machine stopped : a cautionary tale from industrial America  which is also available on the Internet Archive  and tells the story of Burgmaster  and its acquisition by Houdaille Industries .  This was the start of the long slow decline of American manufacturing which started sixty years ag...

This panel, from the video description :  Ramesh Srinivasan -- Professor at UCLA Department of Information Studies, AI and technology specialist. Marc Einstein -- Research Director and Global Head of AI Research at Counterpoint Research & Digital Transformation analyst. Adrian Monck -- Senior Adviser on AI and Technology to the United Nations and Editor of the 'Seven Things' newsletter in Geneva. Subscribe to  Al Jazeera English . 

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I was just idly searching GooTube for stuff on final coalgebras, as you do when you wonder why everybody thinks knowledge depends on concrete representation, ...  See the paper  Type-Theoretic Constructions of the Final Coalgebra of the Finite Powerset Functor . See also  People Talking about Programming .  This is post number 13,000 on this blog.  Subscribe to  FSCD 2021 .

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Subscribe to  Judging Freedom . Pink Floyd helped Andriy Khlyvnyuk raised £500,000 to support medical, humanitarian and refugee organisations in Ukraine and Poland.  From the video description :  Pink Floyd 8-Tracks - The New Compilation Album Featuring Eight Curated Classics, Spanning 1971 - 1979. https://pinkfloyd.lnk.to/8Tracks The tracklist includes hits ‘Money’, ‘Wish You Were Here’, ‘Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2’, ‘Time’ and ‘Comfortably Numb’, alongside earlier cuts ‘One Of These Days’ and ‘Wot’s… Uh The Deal’, as well as an exclusive full version of ‘Pigs On The Wing’, previously available on the 1977 Animals 8-Track cartridge release. Pink Floyd would like to thank everyone who has supported Hey, Hey, Rise Up . The single, recorded on 30th March with Andriy Khlyvnyuk of the Ukrainian band Boombox, has so far raised over £450,000 to help alleviate the suffering of the Ukrainian people. I wonder much 8-Tracks earned?  Subscribe to  Pink Floyd . Subsc...

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Subscribe to  FREE . There's a lot of stuff that has to be sorted out before any public spending makes any sense at all.  Subscribe to  Inside China Business . See  Greek Democracy  and  Lewis F. Powell Jr. and His Memorandum of August 23, 1971 .