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ResearchBuzz: Firehose

Calvin Liang: The Fed says this is a cube of $1M. They’re off by half a million.. “I first tried counting the stacks right there in the room. The cube was tall, so I had to step back to see the whole thing, squinting at the stacks, trying to follow each row. I lost track almost immediately. Also, people were starting to look at me funny. Apparently, staring intensely at a pile of cash while […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/07/14/calvin-liang-the-fed-says-this-is-a-cube-of-1m-theyre-off-by-half-a-million/

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#calculations#cash#currency
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Dag

I am beginning to realize that my prediction manifested itself just days after I posted the above. on April 2nd 2025
The oversimplified #tariff #calculations, that misses on the real world supply chains, was at least in part done by #AI.

But as #Trump just hits for the golf course as stock exchanges plunges, my belief that Trump just want to see the world burn and he gets all the attention is his sole goal. He does not care about the american #economy

theguardian.com/commentisfree/

The Guardian · Are Trump’s tariffs for real or an AI hallucination? I’m afraid the answer is bothBy Marina Hyde
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“Bodsworth [1] tells me a story he heard earlier in his career about a nameless London bank that was confronted with a problem when the UK switched to a decimal currency in 1971. It had a #ComputerProgram that carried out various financial #calculations using the UK’s pre-decimal currency. But someone had lost the source code, so there was no way to modify the software to run its calculations on the new decimal currency.

Rather than rewriting the software from scratch at great cost, the bank simply created a bit of #code that converted amounts in decimal pounds and pence into pre-decimal pounds, shillings and pence. The converted totals could then be put into the old program to run the financial calculations. Finally, another bit of code converted the results of those calculations from pre-decimal back to decimal values.”

The critical computer systems still relying on decades-old code
#software / #archaeology <archive.md/m9Sem> / <newscientist.com/article/mg265>

[1] Vincent Bodsworth, a trustee of the LEO Computers Society.

sleepfreeparent

#Life these days is an endless series of #calculations and plans. What phase of the domestic #genocide is my family most likely to be swept up in? What're the warning signs likely to be? What're the "Oh shit you left it too late - drop everything and run!" #RedFlags to look out for? Do we still have enough time to escape the county via plan A? Do we really have to plan plan B? Yes. Damnit. I hate planning

DimaLink

Conversation +3 and -3 about to jump in green hole

Let`s jump into this red hole and get to know what is it at the top of it?

Let`s do it, but I see before myself a purple triangle and it is turned to 45 degrees.
I am at the time distortion minus 0.5.

Calibrate, please, your eye and a measure device. And, good. But, now, I see I green circle. And, what do you see?

#story#surreal#sciencefiction
Arkadiusz Sikorski

1973 Room with ZAM-41 Beta computer. In the foreground from the left - operator's desk, Facit paper tape punch and Lorenz teletype. In the background workers at PT-2 tape memories. / The Capital Center of Electronic Computing Technology

  • a 24-bit machine word divided into 4 characters of 6 bits and 3 characters of 8 bits
  • single-address instructions with 15-bit address
  • character set did not contain lowercase lettersspeed:
  • over 30,000 fixed-point instructions per second
  • memory read cycle: 6 or 10 µs[4]
  • access time: 3.5 or 6 µs

#PJEG #JOM #SAS41 #SAKO #Algol #EOL #COBOL

Total produced: 16 pcs.

ZAM-41 Beta computer

#zam#polish#poland
Soh Kam Yung

"[In 1687] Isaac Newton explained how the gravitational forces of the sun and the moon caused [the tides]. Nine decades later, the French astronomer and mathematician Pierre-Simon Laplace suggested that the tides could be represented as harmonic oscillations. And a century after that, Thomson used that concept to design the first machine for predicting them."

spectrum.ieee.org/tide-predict

IEEE Spectrum · Lord Kelvin and His Analog ComputerBy Allison Marsh
#LordKelvin#WilliamThomson#Tides
Daniel Dvorkin

I’m trying to imagine what it would look like if #academic #publishing followed the same rules as #online #arguments.

Paper: “#Harvard did a #study …”
Reviewer 1: “I am unaware of that study. Please provide a #citation.”
Author’s response: “LOL #Google it!”

Paper: “#Mathematical #calculations show …”
Reviewer 2: “There is an error in this #proof.”
Author’s response: “Don’t fall for #BigMath’s #woke lies!”

Paper: “#Scientists now believe …”
Reviewer 3: “The current #consensus strongly disagrees with this statement.”
Author’s response: “Think for yourself! Do your own #research!”

Ah, well, back to the real world, where I actually have to support my #claims.

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