The next #London #PerlMongers social will be lunch on Thursday the 1st of January at the Green Dragon, CR0 1NA. Hope to see some of you there! Not into perl? We don't care. #Rust, #Python, #BCPL, #MACRO11, #AmigaBASIC - we love 'em all.

#croydon #perl

Some light reading for your week;
https://avanthar.com/healyzh/decemulation/pdp10emu.html

#emulation #simh
#KA10 #KL10 #KS10 #KLH10
#DEC #PDP-10 #BBN
#TOPS-10 #TOPS-20 #TENEX #ITS
#BLISS #BCPL #ALGOL #TECO

Soo… my reading has gone off the rails. As have my posting. I don’t know what this means, but I am enjoying what I’m reading. I’ll work on getting my reviews up this week.

CR: Home Front by Kristin Hannah

#frommylibrary #libraryfinds #bcpl #bullittcountypubliclibrary #borrowed

April 3rd, 12pm-1pm Eastern (UTC -4): "Understanding AI: What it Can and Cannot Do", an online author event featuring Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor, authors of "AI Snake Oil: What Artificial Intelligence Can Do, What It Can’t Do and How to Tell the Difference".

Supported by the #Baltimore County Public Library.

(The authors of this book are a computer science professor and graduate student at Princeton I've already read the book & liked it, though I think the authors go too easy on the large social-media sites & their inability to moderate effectively. They argue that predictive AI is largely a failure and faces inherent limits, and AI content moderation can't keep up with users, but generative AI is more likely to be useful, especially when it's overseen or verified by a human. They also call for judicious regulation, but of course we're not going to get any of *that*... well, maybe in the EU.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axAXZ5WTjE4

#Maryland #BCPL #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #books #AuthorEvent