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25 02 2003

Tue, 25 Feb 2003

Teletekst

Wat is er toch met de Teletekstmachine aan de hand? Sinds de omroepen op die onhandige vormgeving zijn overgegaan komen er steeds meer maffe foute karakters door de berichten heen (in de tekst en in de grafische versie). Een overzichtje.

Vreeg posted at: 12:12 | path: /nl/dingen | permanent link


Simulation

Fifty years ago, (or was it 49?) physicists Enrico Fermi, Stanislaw Ulam and John Pasta (link?) invented computer simulation as a scientific methodology. Motivated, mostly, by their desire to do something with the new machine.

Computers were brand new; in fact the Los Alamos Maniac was barely finished. [...] We discussed this at length and decided to formulate a problem simple to state, but such that a solution would require a lengthy computation which could not be done with pencil and paper or with existing mechanical computers.

Stan Ulam in his autobiography.

posted at: 12:00 | path: /en/quotations | permanent link


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