Tweet Archive 2017 10
Replying to @HirokiSayama and @andy_adamatzky
I spoke to Kenichi. He says it’s the design of a program for C. Lee’s machine. And he wants to get it working in Golly!
Replying to @HirokiSayama and @andy_adamatzky
This was his undergraduate work! Any copies of C. Lee’s paper? Here’s a Japanese translation that Kenichi sent me: http://sq3.org.uk/files/CY_Lee_Synthesis_of_a_cellular_computer_1968.pdf
Replying to @andy_adamatzky and @HirokiSayama
Lee cites this heartbreaking description of von Neumann’s last days, by his wife: http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Extras/Von_Neumann_Silliman.html
Replying to @andy_adamatzky and @HirokiSayama
A von Neumann ‘constructing arm’, running on a PDP-12 in 1971 or 1972, courtesy of Kenichi Morita:
This makes a lot of sense. It tells us how that guy knew about Deckard’s unicorn dreams. https://twitter.com/GeneticJen/status/915902139758727168
RT @Kynastonkid: I am ridiculously excited to discover that when your cuboid is a ‘builder’s’ brick, the various faces/ orientations have d…
RT @robeastaway: Every football road sign in the country is mathematically wrong. But now you can petition to put this right: https://t.co/…
Hiking in Laoshan National Forest Park, Qingdao, China, with Qiang Dai.
New exhibition in the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge about codebreakers. https://twitter.com/jamesgrime/status/921360106889056267
♫ Looking back I could have eaten more poffertjes. ♫ https://youtu.be/LHWdFd_MwcU