Michael Will 🍁
@scidata.ca
computation from first principles 0101
FORTH PROLOG GOFAI RISC-V HPC Spaceflight Astronomy
Zebrafish SciFi CitSci Archaeology Anthropology Psychohistory
Website: www.scidata.ca
Discussion: worthdefending.blogspot.com
GOFAI Forum: gofai.discourse.group
FORTH PROLOG GOFAI RISC-V HPC Spaceflight Astronomy
Zebrafish SciFi CitSci Archaeology Anthropology Psychohistory
Website: www.scidata.ca
Discussion: worthdefending.blogspot.com
GOFAI Forum: gofai.discourse.group
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxkj...
I don't give a hoot about what people have to say
I'm laughin' as I'm analyzed
#Toronto
I don't give a hoot about what people have to say
I'm laughin' as I'm analyzed
#Toronto
The Kings - This Beat Goes On/Switchin' to Glide
YouTube video by thekingsarehere
www.youtube.com
November 20, 2025 at 10:07 PM
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxkj...
I don't give a hoot about what people have to say
I'm laughin' as I'm analyzed
#Toronto
I don't give a hoot about what people have to say
I'm laughin' as I'm analyzed
#Toronto
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Canada has announced an additional $528.5 million investment in ESA programmes at #CM25.
www.canada.ca/en/space-age...
www.canada.ca/en/space-age...
Canada Deepens Space Ties with Europe Through Historic Investment - Canada.ca
Today, at the SpaceBound 2025 Conference, the Honourable Mélanie Joly, Minister of Industry and Minister responsible for Canada Economic Development for Quebec Regions, made the historic announcement ...
www.canada.ca
November 19, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Canada has announced an additional $528.5 million investment in ESA programmes at #CM25.
www.canada.ca/en/space-age...
www.canada.ca/en/space-age...
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Doing a bit more experimenting with ZX81 #Forth multitasking on #Minstrel4th. Combined several example programs from user manual to make a real-time clock. A must-have for a personal computer in 2025! #retrogaming
November 17, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Doing a bit more experimenting with ZX81 #Forth multitasking on #Minstrel4th. Combined several example programs from user manual to make a real-time clock. A must-have for a personal computer in 2025! #retrogaming
November 15, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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Wonder why this scene looks so familiar...
#WildlifeWednesday 🐦🐕
#WildlifeWednesday 🐦🐕
November 5, 2025 at 6:57 AM
Wonder why this scene looks so familiar...
#WildlifeWednesday 🐦🐕
#WildlifeWednesday 🐦🐕
“One thing a person cannot do, no matter how rigorous his analysis or heroic his imagination, is to draw up a list of things that would never occur to him.”
- Thomas Schelling
#ComputationalThinking #Serendipity #Diversity
- Thomas Schelling
#ComputationalThinking #Serendipity #Diversity
November 4, 2025 at 1:33 PM
“One thing a person cannot do, no matter how rigorous his analysis or heroic his imagination, is to draw up a list of things that would never occur to him.”
- Thomas Schelling
#ComputationalThinking #Serendipity #Diversity
- Thomas Schelling
#ComputationalThinking #Serendipity #Diversity
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Beautiful remembrance of Brian Cantwell Smith, from Faculty of Information, University of Toronto: ischool.utoronto.ca/news/obituar...
Obituary: Brian Cantwell Smith (1950 to 2025) - Faculty of Information
Former dean wove philosophy and computation into a lifelong inquiry into the human dimensions of intelligence, judgment, and meaning Born into a prominent Canadian family known for both its intellectu...
ischool.utoronto.ca
November 4, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Beautiful remembrance of Brian Cantwell Smith, from Faculty of Information, University of Toronto: ischool.utoronto.ca/news/obituar...
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What if one model could realistically predict the economy of an entire country? The entire world? A month-long working group, co-organized by SFI External Professor @doynefarmer.bsky.social, made the case that agent-based models may bring this vision to life:
Agent-based models move into the economic mainstream
In the 1980s and ’90s, SFI played laboratory to a promising new method known as agent-based modeling. In ensuing decades, agent-based models (ABMs) proliferated across many fields, including economics...
www.santafe.edu
October 28, 2025 at 5:48 PM
What if one model could realistically predict the economy of an entire country? The entire world? A month-long working group, co-organized by SFI External Professor @doynefarmer.bsky.social, made the case that agent-based models may bring this vision to life:
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We're looking for a postdoc for our new project on forecasting technological change - more details below
JOB OPPORTUNITY: Post Doctoral Research Associate in the Economics of Technological Change (2yr) ➵ https://www.inet.ox.ac.uk/vacancies
Join the @oxmartinschool.bsky.social Prog. on Forecasting Technological Change, led by @francoislafond.bsky.social , @doynefarmer.bsky.social & @maxroser.bsky.social
Join the @oxmartinschool.bsky.social Prog. on Forecasting Technological Change, led by @francoislafond.bsky.social , @doynefarmer.bsky.social & @maxroser.bsky.social
November 3, 2025 at 3:48 PM
We're looking for a postdoc for our new project on forecasting technological change - more details below
"Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes"
- Edsger W. Dijkstra
#ComputationalThinking #DistributedComputing #HPC
- Edsger W. Dijkstra
#ComputationalThinking #DistributedComputing #HPC
November 1, 2025 at 12:06 AM
"Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes"
- Edsger W. Dijkstra
#ComputationalThinking #DistributedComputing #HPC
- Edsger W. Dijkstra
#ComputationalThinking #DistributedComputing #HPC
@realgdt.bsky.social FRANKENSTEIN stays true to the original theme: Artificial Intelligence is a very, very double-edged sword. Not simply a scientific achievement, but a doorway into a new reality. A fictional epic tale that rivals Darwin's great idea in importance. Mary Shelley was a visionary.
October 28, 2025 at 8:47 PM
@realgdt.bsky.social FRANKENSTEIN stays true to the original theme: Artificial Intelligence is a very, very double-edged sword. Not simply a scientific achievement, but a doorway into a new reality. A fictional epic tale that rivals Darwin's great idea in importance. Mary Shelley was a visionary.
"A physician without a knowledge of astrology has no right to call himself a physician" - Hippocrates
#Romanticism vs #Science
#Romanticism vs #Science
October 27, 2025 at 4:14 PM
"A physician without a knowledge of astrology has no right to call himself a physician" - Hippocrates
#Romanticism vs #Science
#Romanticism vs #Science
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NASA Citizen Scientist Michiharu Hyogo is featured in this article about authors of Zooniverse publications. He's a citizen scientist on the Disk Detective and Backyard Worlds projects, & he wrote a first-author paper. #astronomy @royalastrosoc.bsky.social academic.oup.com/astrogeo/art...
People power in action
Zooniverse is a platform enabling citizen scientists to contribute to research, and it may just form the foundations of a new scientific community
academic.oup.com
October 27, 2025 at 4:03 PM
NASA Citizen Scientist Michiharu Hyogo is featured in this article about authors of Zooniverse publications. He's a citizen scientist on the Disk Detective and Backyard Worlds projects, & he wrote a first-author paper. #astronomy @royalastrosoc.bsky.social academic.oup.com/astrogeo/art...
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I've seen one teardown of one of these, and it looks like they've cut the plastic pillars off to remove the keyboard PCB. It's the LED variant, but the keyboard and case are more or less the same.
Retro Teardown: The Sinclair 300 Calculator - News
Calculators are always taken for granted, especially in the age of smartphones. Today we will look at a calculator from 1975 (40 years old) which was one of Clive Sinclair's fantastic, innovative prod...
www.allaboutcircuits.com
October 23, 2025 at 8:46 PM
I've seen one teardown of one of these, and it looks like they've cut the plastic pillars off to remove the keyboard PCB. It's the LED variant, but the keyboard and case are more or less the same.
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Stopped by the Schwaben Club in Breslau, Ontario for Oktoberfest — a celebration of community, culture, and great beer.
October 19, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Stopped by the Schwaben Club in Breslau, Ontario for Oktoberfest — a celebration of community, culture, and great beer.
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We are in the age of RISC-V chiplets, apparently.
Still testing the new DeepComputing DC-ROMA Mainboard II, with 8 SiFive P550 cores, Imagination GPU, and separate NPU chip, with 32 GB of shared RAM. The way it works is... interesting.
Stay tuned for a video. Might take a little longer than usual.
Still testing the new DeepComputing DC-ROMA Mainboard II, with 8 SiFive P550 cores, Imagination GPU, and separate NPU chip, with 32 GB of shared RAM. The way it works is... interesting.
Stay tuned for a video. Might take a little longer than usual.
October 16, 2025 at 1:54 AM
We are in the age of RISC-V chiplets, apparently.
Still testing the new DeepComputing DC-ROMA Mainboard II, with 8 SiFive P550 cores, Imagination GPU, and separate NPU chip, with 32 GB of shared RAM. The way it works is... interesting.
Stay tuned for a video. Might take a little longer than usual.
Still testing the new DeepComputing DC-ROMA Mainboard II, with 8 SiFive P550 cores, Imagination GPU, and separate NPU chip, with 32 GB of shared RAM. The way it works is... interesting.
Stay tuned for a video. Might take a little longer than usual.
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Happy Thanksgiving, Canada.
October 12, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Happy Thanksgiving, Canada.
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Very interesting read for #retrocomputing fans www.bbc.com/future/artic...
A digital dark age? The people rescuing forgotten knowledge trapped on old floppy disks
From lectures by Stephen Hawking to the letters of British politician Neil Kinnock – it's a race against time to save the historical treasures locked away on old floppy disks.
www.bbc.com
October 10, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Very interesting read for #retrocomputing fans www.bbc.com/future/artic...
When this AI Slop wave finally recedes, the world will belong to textual learners who absorb and grasp knowledge via reading and writing.
Text offers the best balance between 'knowledge velocity' and friction, in an analog to how complexity lives at the twilight between order and chaos.
#GOFAI
Text offers the best balance between 'knowledge velocity' and friction, in an analog to how complexity lives at the twilight between order and chaos.
#GOFAI
October 8, 2025 at 2:32 PM
When this AI Slop wave finally recedes, the world will belong to textual learners who absorb and grasp knowledge via reading and writing.
Text offers the best balance between 'knowledge velocity' and friction, in an analog to how complexity lives at the twilight between order and chaos.
#GOFAI
Text offers the best balance between 'knowledge velocity' and friction, in an analog to how complexity lives at the twilight between order and chaos.
#GOFAI
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Headed to Washington with my colleagues to support the Prime Minister.
This working visit will focus on shared priorities in a new economic and security relationship between Canada and the U.S.
This working visit will focus on shared priorities in a new economic and security relationship between Canada and the U.S.
October 6, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Headed to Washington with my colleagues to support the Prime Minister.
This working visit will focus on shared priorities in a new economic and security relationship between Canada and the U.S.
This working visit will focus on shared priorities in a new economic and security relationship between Canada and the U.S.
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Celebrated Navajo (Diné) artist Marilou Schultz recently completed a striking weaving. Although this rug may appear abstract, it is a representation of the wiring inside an integrated circuit. It shows the 555 timer, said at one point to be the world's most popular IC. Let's take a closer look...
September 6, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Celebrated Navajo (Diné) artist Marilou Schultz recently completed a striking weaving. Although this rug may appear abstract, it is a representation of the wiring inside an integrated circuit. It shows the 555 timer, said at one point to be the world's most popular IC. Let's take a closer look...
"any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee"
- John Donne
#RememberWhoWeAre
- John Donne
#RememberWhoWeAre
October 3, 2025 at 9:30 PM
"any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee"
- John Donne
#RememberWhoWeAre
- John Donne
#RememberWhoWeAre