The Eternal Doorman

I just heard that some researchers have contacted someone at the Computer Laboratory about the Dodleston messages. Maybe it is Notalgia Nerd himself? Subscribe to Nostalgia Nerd . I have just bought myself a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W to make a terminal for connecting the people of the future to the Civil Service: See I Got Bit at the Bring 'n Byte Yesterday  and  Germany in World War III .

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I walked in the door and there was this BBC Model B, with a sturdy Watford Electronics carrying case, and it came with a free Cumana 5 1/4" Floppy Disk Drive. Well, I thought I would spend the rest of my life kicking myself if I didn't buy this, and it feels like I'm hitting the reset button on my life and going back to 1982 when my parents bought me my first computer, which was a BBC model A. I used it for graphics programming and learned to write 3D vector graphics programs from Ian O. Angell's book. See Ian Grant's Weather Report August 04, 2022 . Back to England: It was the HH Tiger , or Tigress, there seems to be some equivocation here, ... See Alan Sugar at the Cambridge Union for some more context. So now I am looking up what the BBC Micro's Tube™ was about: What's the TUBE interface of the BBC micro all about? The problem I had as a kid trying to do this stuff on a BBC with 32KB of RAM was that the screen memory took up most of the RAM and left

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She doesn't mention that she already talked about how AIs rule Academia: Publish or Perish in Court , and even more weirdly, she doesn't mention the insurance "industry"! [Correction. She does mention AIs in Academia, just before she talks about the f-witted idea of a Hydrogen economy!] But then she goes on to do a promotional spot for Incogni ! So Sabine, do you really think that the Hydrogen economy idea is more f-witted than the War Economy? That's what a war economy is: you make money selling weapons on the one hand and creating new profit centres around the "defence industry" and "building back" the place you just bombed the crap out of, killing millions of people in the process. See  The Future With Hannahs Fry, Arendt and Reid ,  Meet Angela Georgina Burdett-Coutts, 1st Baroness Burdett-Coutts and Low Level/Linus Tech Tips/Veritasium - This Week's Finds in Computer Security . Subscribe to Sabine Hossenfelder . Botty McBotface w

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I just got back from a Bring 'n Byte at The Centre for Computing History where there was an Amstrad CPC 464 and some cards and things for sale at the end of the day, ... Starts around 4:45 . He says nowadays you can't start a business making consumer hardware in your garage, ... That's true, especially if you don't have a garage, but it looks to me like you might be able to start some sort of business in other people's garages, ... I don't know how to keep it going though. Whilst there I met David Pleasance and got a copy of his book about the last years of Commodore Business Machines, from around the time Jack Tramiel left. It's very interesting to get a view of the industry from the marketing perspective. See  https://feertech.com/microbeast/ and this: See Anamartic Wafer Stack . Mass Storage The HOPE Dolphin was donated in memory of Dilip Kumar Roy  by his son Sandeep. Maybe this is Sandeep:  Creating a Rapid Growth Digital Economy & Investment c

 See https://www.8bitdevices.com/ It uses a Raspberry Pi Pico and he thinks you don't even need the TTL Level shifters to produce HDMI output. The interface to the Apple ][ is directly onto the Apple Address/Data Bus, so this could be used to add all sorts of crazy stuff like debugging support. See https://github.com/rallepalaveev/A2DVI . Subscribe to Gary's Digital Basement .

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Roger Penrose had just been here in Cambridge, speaking at the TWT Conference (TWT stands for Twistor Theory , I guess). He talks about his relationship with his fellow student Michael Atiyah and also about Alexander Grothendieck .  He talks about Conformal Cyclic Cosmology too, about which he wrote a whole book in 2010. He says it's outrageous. The theory, not just the book! See Cycles of Time and Elle Cordova - Sub-atomic Particles Hang Out in The Universe Saloon . As a graduate student at Cambridge, he attended a talk on Mathematical Logic by S.W.P. Steen. See this review of Steen's 1973 book Mathematical Logic with special reference to the natural numbers , available on the Internet Archive here . The first page of the introduction seems very promising: If that bit about two-dimensional blood flow sounds a bit cracked then see Two-dimensional Flow .  S.W.P. Steen was a fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge, as was Jan Smuts, for a brief period in 1917. See Christ

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I meant John Reynolds, see Definitional Interpreters for Higher-Order Programming Languages . See https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~jrh13/ and his Handbook of Practical Logic and Automated Reasoning . The Standard ML code is https://github.com/logic-tools/sml-handbook (WTF?! See First-Order Logic According to Harrison by Alexander Birch Jensen, Anders Schlichtkrull and Jørgen Villadsen). See Purlieu : Denez Prigent - Gortoz A Ran Subscribe to Denez Official . Roxy Music - Oh Yeah Subscribe to Dixie Blue . See Radio @ The Roxy For Katie in Jo'burg See Hello Brain! @ The Francis Crick Institute And here's one I prepared earlier: Back to the photogenic purlieus of Cambridge: Jennifer Rush - Wings of Desire Subscribe to Jennifer Rush .

Makes more sense'n you get out of the Perimeter Institute these days! They stole her phone in Barcelona: Was she checking out the stained glass there? Subscribe to Elle Cordova .

She was the daughter of a banker:  Angela Georgina Burdett-Coutts, 1st Baroness Burdett-Coutts . Adventures with Natasha II 1/5 - Looking for Highgate Cemetery 2/5 3/5 4/5 5/5: Writing Marx at Highgate Cemetery  The emailerator is A Thing! Flashy flash flash flash! Yourleyenesses, ... Trying out Navilens at the RNIB See  An Adventure With Natasha  and  The Future With Hannahs Fry, Arendt and Reid . It's a pity I didn't do that video editing course.

Victoria is sitting in bed making inspiring YouTube videos and Romany is touring with her dad and they're in Rome already! Vita Brevis and Between Two Points . Subscribe to Victoria and  VITTO Rocks .

Wow, she's really good! Did I hear you asked for another rejected SNL audition? You got it! ...Why do I continue auditioning for a show that clearly doesn't want me you may be wondering? Guess I'm a glutton for punishment... also now you all get to enjoy my failed attempt at impressing Lorne. Criteria for an SNL audition tape: Has to be under 5 minutes Has to show off your writing ability Has to show original characters Has to show as many impressions as possible Subscribe to Julie Nolke and sign up to her Patreon and she'll send you a Christmas card!. Lana Del Rey on SNL. Was that her problem? Post-partum behaviour, I mean. She did her audition live in the night: She said it was something else:  Subscribe to Lana Del Rey and Saturday Night Live .

This is a really interesting one: see foomatic-rip which is a "universal print filter" which translates one language, such as PDF, to another, such as PostScript™. It's a hacked up thing that "evolved" to the point where it seems to have entered the hardware supply chain, by lazy manufacturers who just stuck a Linux kernel in their printer? That's the cock-up version of the story. I'll leave the conspiracy version as an exercise for the reader. Or maybe this is just part of the movie script for a war-crimes trial to be held in a theater somewhere near you? See The Future With Hannahs Fry, Arendt and Reid . Which should be read carefully by everyone who uses WhatsApp too. Which reminds me that on Monday 30th September they will be filming on the North Bank of the Thames, at Vauxhall Bridge, opposite the MI-6 Headquarters. If you have cups running and listening on this port then you can turn it off with something like  sudo sh -c 'echo manual > /e

I missed this because I was out taking a walk, ... See Zero Podcasts - Your emotions are valid and their judgement is not and David Gilmour & Co - Thanks for Being At Brighton Rehearsal This Weekend . Sorrow (Live at Pompeii) Subscribe to David Gilmour .

 It's only the first part of a whole series: Subscribe to Bloomberg Business . I've just been to London, and she was too busy to meet for lunch, but it was interesting:   Natasha and I went for a walk on Wednesday:   James Bond delivering a takeaway to the Russians:   The takeaway (Chinese) was five books and a DVD of the film Hannah Arendt (2012) Hannah Arendt on Eichmann, Banality, Guilt & Obedience (1964) Subscribe to Philosophy Overdose . Seven pence for a ticket on the 88: Community Gynecology with Hannah Reid Intelligence Gathering with Yuval Noah Harari  Intelligence sharing at Savernake Bridge  Finding the Duke of St. Alban's Drinking Whisky at the Duke of St. Alban's with Eugenia Cheng Falling in love again, ... ... A fox in Highgate Cemetery ...

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This was great! It's a bit long though, ... Parts 1 and 2 below, but more to come, ... The books: You can read this at Project Gutenberg: The Tragic Comedians by George Meredith See The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder . Anita Rich died in 2011. See  Anita Rich Obituary in The Guardian 9th January 2011 . It was Warren Zevon who sang My Shit's Fucked Up . Doron Zeilberger is a radical mathematician . There's another bit of the story to come, ... The next video is over an hour walking around Camden: The Langland Gardens Program with Eugenia Cheng et al (and Jon Crowcroft of course, who has a blog too: http://paravirtualization.blogspot.com/ ) on posets and trichotomy v. dichotomy and canonical orderings . We also met T.E. Lawrencce , or one of his bikes, at any rate, and UCL School accomapanied by Hampstead's Pearly King and Queen and Thomas Bellamy , Eva Gore-Booth (and George Michael!) See Murder of John Lennon (Lennon's remains were cremated at

Why do I confuse Missouri and Wisconsin? Because of Missouri Botanical Gardens , of course. See John Muir . Or just because I've drunk a glass of whisky.

See this Reuters story: Academic publishers face class action over ‘peer review’ pay, other restrictions University of California Los Angeles neuroscience Professor Lucina Uddin has sued six major academic journal publishers, claiming in a proposed class action that they violated antitrust law by barring simultaneous submissions to multiple journals and denying pay for “peer review” services. The plaintiffs counsel are Dean Harvey of Lieff Cabraser, Heimann & Bernstein , and Benjamin Elga of Justice Catalyst Law . Peer reviewing is easy though: Honestly, the lengths she has to go to get me to post her videos! See  Michael Kohlhase and Dennis Müller - The STeX3 Package Collection  and  The PLO in Lebanon . Subscribe to Sabine Hossenfelder . I'm a GOAT! And Brad is going to school at last! Subscribe to NMPAorg . Or we could just use his voice to sell the idea: Subscribe to Jeff Geerling . I had a strange dream this morning: See  Zero Podcasts - Your emotions are valid and their

This Wikipedia page reads like a rather well-written propaganda booklet publish the British Foreign Commonwealth Development Office. Apparently the British are always number one in whatever they do. That's why people think I'm British, I guess. That makes me sad. See  Zero Podcasts - Your emotions are valid and their judgement is not . See Michael Kohlhase and Dennis Müller - The STeX3 Package Collection and Standard ML For The Lady Programmer .  See Ubuntu 24 snap Bootstrap Issue and A mathlib overview .

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