Not really–I’ve played around a little bit, but done nothing serious. Kinda like the “try Ruby in your browser!” experiments. Kid stuff.

ou need to read Rapture for the Geeks: When AI Outsmarts IQ. The historical trivia on computers alone make it worth the effort.

As I also have an active interest in AI (which, at this point, hasn’t even achieved “AS”), that sounds interesting. Regarding ENIAC, I highly recommend this short, fascinating book:

ENIAC: The Triumphs and Tragedies of the World’s First Computer (Hardcover)
by Scott McCartney
http://www.amazon.com/ENIAC-Triumphs-Tragedies-Worlds-Computer/dp/0802713483

True to its title, it is both inspiring and depressing. Few people could name the two quirky geniuses who invented the first modern computer (John Mauchy and J. Presper Eckert).

You need to read Rapture for the Geeks: When AI Outsmarts IQ. The historical trivia on computers alone make it worth the effort.

Have you ever worked with the Python language? I had used Liberty Basic to program an “effect size” calculator (Hedges’s G was what I was interested in). I was able to come up with a suitable program without too much code, but I think Python may be a better language for me. NASA uses it too, so it can’t be all bad + it’s open source and free. Python 3.0 is coming out in December and a book will also be published in late December on this version.

blessings ALL!!

blessings on this Advent Season!!

so mote it be!!

Aren’t you gonna tell us WHO the U.S. government took the computer, the Internet, the Mosaic web browser, etc, FROM?

‘The Technology Challenge: How Can America Spark Private Innovation?’
http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/lazowska/faculty.lecture/innovation/gore.html

Surely you jest! We, or our grandkids, will surely pay it all back, whether in taxes, or due to the devaluation of money due to inflation from the printing of the money.
Again I say, surely you jest…no one can be that stupid, unless they are a DimLib or simply ignorant.
Or, as I suspect, sarcastic!

They’re the same ones that protect you from getting canned when you earn too much and they can replace you with someone cheaper.

However, I won’t have people who are downright bad employees. That’s bad for the company, bad for the clients, and bad for morale of the company.

I also know that a company has to be profitable in order to work. Now where that line is on profitability vs quality, that’s where I’m coming in, right? That’s my job. Trying to keep everyone happy and move the company forward. Not as easy as it may seem, and there are a lot of growing pains.

For the most part I have really good employees. I like my job.

Yup. And look! The first computer!

http://ftp.arl.army.mil/~mike/comphist/eniac-story.html

Gonna get rough on them and theirs is my take.

BlueJay sings….

Lovin’ every minute of it!

Yes, it’s very ironic.

Boxlock may not even know that his web browser is based on Mosaic, which was developed with GOVERNMENT funds from Al Gore’s legislation. LOL!

‘NCSA Mosaic — September 10, 1993 Demo’
http://www.totic.org/nscp/demodoc/demo.html

Have sweet dreams thinkin bout how good things are gonna be under Obamination!

I cling to my gun and bible for comfort too.

It was a nice visit in the warm sun and time spent solving the worlds problems with some good conservatives poolside, drinks in hand. Far outweighed the blacksheep of the family on the government tit from Nevada.

Gotta run. Have to put some burn pain lotion on before going to bed. Gotta make lots of money at work tomorrow for Obama Christ.

Yeah I know. Those nasty black guns that are used to hunt jack rabbits.

And who’s gonna pick the oranges and grapefruit? American Union workers will have to be hired.

Those libs will love paying $5 for one orange and $10 for one grapefruit!

How predictably incurious. For some, willful ignorance must indeed be bliss!

There is no Ponderosa – they believe in the government providing the Ponderosa to everyone.

Hell, you don’t think they’d W.O.R.K fer it do ya?
Geez. They’re libs for godsake!
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Yeah OK, Government will provide everything from the money trees. Ponderosas for everybody!

Yeah, but who’s gonna clean the pool and cut the grass now?

Dang!

Ah yes, cosmos, isn’t deliciously ironic? Nearly every link in the technology chain–from the computer, the browser, the socket interfaces, the the ethernet standard, communication protocols, to the Internet itself–was due to overnment research, or funded by government dollars.

It reminds me of someone railing against the evils of newspapers on the editorial page of one.

There is no Ponderosa – they believe in the government providing the Ponderosa to everyone.

Hell, you don’t think they’d W.O.R.K fer it do ya?
Geez. They’re libs for godsake!

Must be a helluva lot of hunters using AR’s and Pistols!

And I notice no shortage in shotgun shells, slugs, or 30-06.

Hollow-points, 9mm, 40, 44, 45 are hard to find now, and twice the price when you can find them!
And for some reason, .223’s (or 5.56)are in short supply. Must be a whole new group of deer hunters using these calibers.

Why would I do that? They are libs on koolaid.

But they are sure buying semi-automatic guns before their savior bans them.

What’s that tell you about liberals? Says much more than asking them why they voted for The God Obama.

Funny thing was – I had family from Reno, NV there. They flew home to buy guns in NV – before the new Prez is annoited.

What’s funny? That entire part of the family voted for Obama!!
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The Ponderosa just ain’t what it used to be.