@JensB @chronohh #trailblazer :: "There is a new profession of trail blazers, those who find delight in the task of
establishing useful trails through the enormous mass of the common record. The inheritance from the
master becomes, not only his additions to the world's record, but for his disciples the entire scaffolding by
which they were erected." – Vannevar Bush 1945

There's a lot of unpleasant things I can say about the University of Washington and its shrivelled #Chemistry department, but at least I learned quite a bit of new stuff while I was there, fundamental knowledge about analytical chemistry and other things. The #Classics degree I credit with teaching me how to write and think in a reasoned, educated way, and with giving me a taste of civilization: I am hardly L'Uomo Universale (scarcely anyone is, aside from Leonardo da Vinci-chan) but my Classics degree opened my eyes, as they had not been previously opened, to the benefits of a truly general #education.
And then, there's my #computerscience degree, which got me a couple jobs, up until I left Amazon dot com under my own power in mid-2001, whence nobody in the #tech sector wanted to hire me for anything, because they regarded me as a quitter. I was actually told that explicitly at one interview. So the vocational pseudo-degree I'd gotten for the sole purpose of making myself employable was now worthless.
#OOP. Yeah it's got a weensy bit of currency as a hashtag here.
I am slightly unusual in having three degrees, covering all three major divisions of U.S. "higher #education":
1) the sciences, with my #chemistry degree;
2) the humanities, with my #Classics degree;
3) (by far the biggest division of U.S. college schooling) vocational pseudo-disciplines, with my SDSU #computerscience degree.
I'm working on a TUI for students to explore topics of theoretical computer science. Set theory and propositional logic are done. So a lot is still missing but the first version is published on crates.io
https://codeberg.org/dawe/theotui
#rust #ratatui #computerscience #logic #math
When you remember the #novel you're reading is written by a computer-science prof it suddenly makes sense.
Hype for the Future 140D: System Requirements for Instruction Set Extensions (Intel x86)
Introduction Different instruction set extensions require generally different generations of Intel x86 processors. Please note that AVX-512 is only available on select processors in the Intel 11th and 12th generations. Specifications MMX: Pentium MMX or later (except Pentium Pro) SSE: Pentium III SSE2: Pentium 4 SSE3: Pentium 4 “Prescott” (2004) SSSE3: Core 2 Solo/Duo/Quad/Extreme SSE4, SSE4.1: Core 2 “Penryn” (2007/08) SSE4.2: Core “Nehalem” AVX: Core “Sandy […]