JustCodeCulture

JustCodeCulture, 9 months ago to ai

China IT giant Baidu released a gen AI chatbot, Ernie. This explores Ernie's misinformation.

ie. COVID-19 was a product of US vaping & came to Wuhan by way of imported US lobsters.

What is its model & training data? In the US, AI is corp. excesses in China gov excesses!

#ai #ChatGPT #largelanguagemodels #DataModel #china #COVID19 #artificialintelligence #generativeAI #china #technology #science #tech #history @histodons @sociology @anthropology @politicalscience

https://www.economist.com/business/2023/09/03/meet-ernie-chinas-answer-to-chatgpt?utm_medium=social-media.content.np&utm_source=linkedin&utm_campaign=editorial-social&utm_content=discovery.content&utm_term=li-newsletter-040923

JustCodeCulture, 9 months ago to ArtificialIntelligence

CBI Image of the Day!

CBI Image of the Day: A West Germany radio telescope at Effelsberg, measuring at 300 ft across, was built in the 1970s to monitor telemetry from Germany’s first deep space probe satellite, Helios. Data collected was decoded by a dual-processor minicomputer system from Interdata.

#radio #networking #computer #tech #communication #communications #technology #science #sociology #sts #software #hardward #history

@histodons
@commodon
@sociology

JustCodeCulture, 9 months ago to graphics

CBI Image of the Day:

An advanced computer-aided design program, called AD2000, available from Control Data Corp., helps to automate the industrial design and drafting process. It was used to create this automotive component model displayed on a computer graphics terminal (1978).

#graphics #computer #computers #computerscience #technology #tech #womenintech #womeninengineering #engineering #history
@histodons

JustCodeCulture, 9 months ago to ai

Excellent overview of recent work by Signal President Meredith Whittaker & others on how "open" in AI is a myth & is far different from open source software's past in its structuring. It is poised to further concentrate capital & power for AI giants Meta & others.

#AI #artificialintelligence #ml #LLMs #opensource #opensourcesoftware #software #technology #tech #science #history @histodon

https://www.wired.com/story/the-myth-of-open-source-ai/

JustCodeCulture, 9 months ago to baseball

CBI Image of the Day: In 1969, Macmillan Publishing printed its first edition of the Baseball Encyclopedia. This was also the first time ever stats were compiled using computer technology. #baseball #computer #technology #tech #sport #sports #statistics #stats #computation #data #book #books #history
@histodons

JustCodeCulture, 9 months ago to technology

CBI Image of the Day: The computer-laden fuselage of NASA's flying laboratory, the Galileo II, included dead-reckoning software, created by the Informatics General Corp., which was used to direct the plane's monitoring equipment for experiments, 1985.

@histodons
#technology #computer #tech Software #aerospace #NASA #Galileo #flight #space #history

JustCodeCulture, 9 months ago to socialism

New! Essay Review of Joshua DÁVILA (aka The Blockchain Socialist) new book
Blockchain Radicals, & launch to further discussion of blockchain left, higher ed. etc. In my Blockchain and Society

https://z.umn.edu/blckchnradicals

#blockchain #socialism #left #crypto #cryptocurrency #gender #womenintech #women #tech #science #economics #politicaleconomy #Bitcoin #BTC #Ethereum #Eth
@histodons
@sociology
@anthropology
@theblockchainsocialist @economics
@politicalscience

https://z.umn.edu/blckchnradicals

JustCodeCulture, 9 months ago to tech

CBI Image of the Day!

CBI Image of the Day: Assembly of the Control Data Corporation series 3000, working with the wiring, and wiring harnesses, at the McGill Building manufacturing building in Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1962.

#tech #science #computer #computing #controldata #1960s #manufacturing #labor #history
@histodons

JustCodeCulture, 9 months ago to technology

CBI Image of the Day!

A young boy plays chess against a Control Data Corp computer program at a demonstration at the Palmer House in downtown Chicago, IL, 1979.

#technology #tech #ai #artificial intelligence #science #chess #machinelearning #robots #history

@histodons
@sociology
@anthropology

JustCodeCulture, 10 months ago to tech

CBI Image of the Day.

CBI Image of the Day: A computer technician standing next to a large memory disk, which is so highly polished that her image is prominently reflected, ca. 1971.

@histodons #tech #technology #computing #memory #disk #computer #science #history

JustCodeCulture, 10 months ago to Haiku

For Every Season....Tis' the Season of Indictments, which follows an all too long MAGA PD (Preeminent Deplorable) Season of Entitlement.

It inspired me to compose a Haiku.

🌱 🌳 🌱 🌳 🌱 🌳 🌱

Malevolent Aims
Grotesque Amorality
Prisoner Donald

🌳 🌱 🌳 🌱 🌳 🌱 🌳

[Prison cell drawing by Artist and Suffragette Katie Edith Gliddon, 1912]

#haiku #politics #Trump #prison #indictment #law #indictments #donaldtrump
@digitalhumanities
@histodons

JustCodeCulture, 10 months ago to tech

CBI Image o' Day. Late 1950s. View of Floating Indexed Point (FLIP) back panel wiring and register display. FLIP was hardware for use with the GEORGE computer which was designed and built at the Argonne Nat. FLIP and GEORGE communicated via sense and interrupt registers. #tech #technology #computer #illinois #electricalengineering #science #lab #history
@histodons

JustCodeCulture, 10 months ago to Wyze

CBI Image o' Day. General Electric was showing off various forms of robots in the 1950s. Here, we see mechanical hands, striking match & lighting a cigarette of a GE employee. Isn't automation grand!?

#automation #robotics #smoking #health #ai #artificialintelligence #computing #software
#sts #tech #technology #engineering #robot #robots #science #medicine #sociology #anthropology #smoking #cigarettes #gender #ge #generalelectric #history
@histodons
@sociology
@anthropology

JustCodeCulture, 10 months ago to space

1974 NASA Comm Tech Solar Panel Assembly

National Aeronautics and Space Administration. John H. Glenn Research Center at Lewis Field.

COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY SATELLITE CTS SPA SOLAR PANEL ASSEMBLY
5/10/1974

Photographer: MARTIN BROWN

Public Domain. #NASA #Space #communication #Tech #Technology #Science #physics #chemistry @histodons

JustCodeCulture, 10 months ago to Automobiles

CBI Image o' Day

Car Fax Machine, 1971

Everyone had the 8 Track Tape player, so what dashboard (or near dashboard) amenities really made a car stand apart, well, a fax machine, of course!

#automobiles #autos #car #cars #1970s #vehicle #transportation #fax #tech #technology #sociology #communication #history
@histodons
@sociology
@commodon

JustCodeCulture, 10 months ago to twitter

How does it feel to:

...tarnish/abandon a brand 16 years in the making, a brand so strong its verb & obj. forms were ubiquitous in soc. media?

...destroy a corp. you paid $44 billion to buy?

...throw under the bus (or giant X blinding sign) CEO Linda Yaccarino?

...to facilitate hate content?

...go against democracy's need for factual info?

...to be a mid-aged & have maturity of child?

...to be the next HBS Case in failure waiting to happen?

#X #Twitter #Musk #elonmusk @sociology #tech

JustCodeCulture, 10 months ago to technology

CBI Image o' Day.

The ACM "The Scholastic Programming Contest" 1990.

Students & faculty
visiting The White House
during the Scholastic Programming Contest, In the 1980s it was almost all N. American, began to become international in the early 1990s.

Gendering & extreme imbalance at the time remains in CS today--looks as though more than 90 percent of the students are young men.
.
@TheOfficialACM @histodons
@sociology #Technology #science #tech #computer #software #inequality #history

JustCodeCulture, 10 months ago to technology

CBI Image o' Day

"A Pay Envelope Machine" 1913

Manufactured by the Burroughs Corporation. Rendering of this machine from its rear side.

Found this interesting as I was not aware office machines of this period became this specialized, but payroll was a major task and any machinery to aid the process was a help to businesses and organizations.

#machinery #technology #history #business #manufacturing #history
@histodons

JustCodeCulture, 10 months ago to ComputerScience

CBI Image of the Day.

Early Musical Notation and Composition "Mockingbird" on a Personal Computer 1983.

Shown here is the piece "Mockingbird" by famed (worked on SAGE air defense system, LINC mini, ARPAnet IMPs facilitating communications) computer scientist Severo M. Ornstein, 1983 on personal computer. #computerscience #music #computer #software #tech #technology #science #digital #1980s #sts #arpanet #internet #history
@histodons
@musicology
@classicalmusic
@digitalhumanities
@commodon

JustCodeCulture, 10 months ago to hpc

CBI Image o' Day.

1972 ILLIAC IV at NASA Ames in Mountain View CA (First massive parallel processing high performance computer or supercomputer).

Burroughs technicians work on the ILLIAC IV following installation at NASA Ames

#ILLIAC #HPC #NASA #supercomputing #computer #computerscience #tech #compsci #science #technology #history @histodons

JustCodeCulture, 10 months ago to ArtificialIntelligence

CBI Image o' Day. 1947. Howard Aiken, the original conceptual designer behind IBM's Harvard Mark I & Richard H Babbage, great-grandson of Charles Babbage, viewing pt of Charles Babbage's differential engine at a 1947 symposium at #Harvard.

#babbage #computer #compsci #computerscience #technology #tech #science #computerhistory #sts #tech #History @histodons

JustCodeCulture, 10 months ago to music

MOTHERS OF MAINTENANCE

As a social historian of tech tired of hype & innovation/invention-speak & "fathers" & "godfathers" of AI, & as one who greatly values HCI, des, dev & debugging maintenance work & highlighting gender & women's history of software, I for one am still waiting for Mothers of Maintenance lost tapes.

#music #rock #zappa #gender #women #invention #innovation #hype #ai #software #coding #justice #tech #technology #science @sigchi @ACM #history @histodons @commodon @sociology

JustCodeCulture, 10 months ago to punk

Certainly not a fan (more like lesser of evils) regarding Meta and Microsoft, but I would like them to take legal action against Musk's new X.

Since high school in the 1980s I have been fan of the Los Angeles based punk band "X" and it would be some kind of wonderful if they could find a way to sue Musk and X the corporation also ;-)

#punk #rock #music #x #xene #LosAngeles #Microsoft #Facebook #Meta #Twitter #ElonMusk #Musk #Copyright #Trademark #IP #Law @histodons

JustCodeCulture, 10 months ago to IBM

CBI Image o' Day. 1960. IBM 80 Column Punch Card. This was introduced in 1928, but Hollerith/CTR/IBM punch cards used for decades prior.

Like prior cards for IBM it violated the 1914 Clayton Antitrust Act--and IBM lost in court in 1936. This is an instruction card explaining it as a I/O syst. data/instructions for computers & prior that, tab machines. It gave us the iconic cultural phrase "Do Not Fold, Spindle or Mutilate." on each card.

#ibm #technology #tech #history @histodons @sociology