Posts by Waryofbigbro

The billionaire behind Trump's 'unhackable' phone is on a mission to fight Tesla's FSD

Re: "the result of 40 years of technology"

Some operating systems of the 1960s were very sophisticated and ahead of their time. While the Burroughs B5500/5700/6500/6700 series machines did not have internet connectivity, the operating system (Master Control Program or MCP) did support many interactive terminals, multiprogramming, virtual memory and powerful programming languages.

https://play.google.com/store/books/details/Computer_System_Organization_The_B5700_B6700_Serie?id=CiijBQAAQBAJ&hl=en-US

Koch-funded group sues US state agency for installing 'spyware' on 1m Android devices

What about the mandatory installation of Facebook?

My last two Galaxy phones have had Facebook preinstalled and it can't be uninstalled. Is this any different from what is alleged to have happened in MA?

GitHub's Copilot flies into its first open source copyright lawsuit

What about Abstract Semantic Representation?

If CoPilot or competing AI systems generate ASR rather than AST for training their ML systems, is this a violation of copyright? ASR could generate source code in a number of languages from the language-invariant concept in the ASR.

LFortran, a modern LLVM-targeted Fortran compiler, generates an ASR of the source code. This enables cross-compilation to Python and other languages.

https://gitlab.com/lfortran/lfortran/-/wikis/GSoD%20Proposal%202022%20-%20LFortran%20Compiler%20Developer%20Documentation

ALGOL 60 at 60: The greatest computer language you've never used and grandaddy of the programming family tree

Re: .. never used .. ?

That D200 with the APL PROM and APL keyboard was great. I worked for DG and was responsible for marketing APL and other DG languages in Australia. I met Ken Iverson at an APL conference and he said that DG's APL interpreter was the finest implementation he had seen.

Back to Algol - before the Nova even had a disk-based OS there was SOS - the stand-alone operating system. SOS supported the 8K paper-tape Algol compiler which was probably the only other high-level language other than BASIC on that machine in the late 60s.