The conference, oh unconference, had sessions on diverse topics such as “Phone nerding”, “Death Café” and “Coastal preservation”. These were proposed during an agenda session, placed in a matrix on the wall, and ta-da, that’s our schedule. The second day (today, Saturday) will have the DO theme. In a spirit of sharing, and stressing the …
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Keith’s retro computers
I walked upstairs in the office I work in this week and I met familiar faces, people who knew my name since a long while. A good feeling, being somewhere and being recognized. I was shown the collection. How some items were handed over in exchange for “a bottle of iced tea” or for another …
Retro games
On nanochess.org you can see their re-issues of Retro Games. That is: Games re-published in the past few years, for the Colecovision platform. Also, this charming Jeff Minter (Llamasoft) game: I learned about this because I follow amazing programmer and writer Jess Frazelle on social media. You should follow her sometimes-updated weblog. If you like. …
Schoolhouse Rock, with a tune you know
The video is from Schoolhouse Rock. Scandinavian listeners may have heard the first part before.
A link
AI researcher Julian Togelius in 2017 wrote a nice blog post about how to write better about AI. Read the whole thing. I just clipped a few lines below to make you do it. Hugs. Some advice for journalists writing about artificial intelligence … First off, I understand. You’re writing about an extremely fast-moving field …
Majgreve
The Swedish Wikipedia is large. Outsized. Most things are well in hand. Today I met with something which needs an article! The concept of “majgreve”, which means “the Count of May”; a ceremonial feast title given someone worthy. The tiny preview of the NE (“the national encyclopedia”) notes that the term was used in the …
Portmanteau of the day
Cthulhu + FOMO = CthFOMO
The Stones of Venice
My friend J was at a large fika at my house, holding forth about the perennial mystery of Venice. I whispered the only thing I knew about the mystique of that place: some Englishman’s text about it. J winked and nodded, and knew it, of course. I have not read this work, except as an …
Reading The Morning Paper
In which I extol the greatness of The Morning Paper, a way to learn of things in computer science.