As you may recall, my current “project du jour” is the Heath Robinson Rube Goldberg (HRRG) Mixed Technology Computer. The idea is to build a simple computer as a collection of glass-fronted wooden ...

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Computer scientists have invented a highly effective, yet incredibly simple, algorithm to decide which items to toss from a web cache to make room for new ones. Computer scientists have invented a ...

In a paper published in PNAS, physicists from Leiden University in the Netherlands have used a piece of corrugated rubber as a computer. The rubber is placed in a press and then slowly crushed by it.

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Scientists are already exploring using ChatGPT and similar artificial intelligence models in writing research papers, reviews, and grant applications. But how these bots will affect scientific ...