Last month Terry gave the Oxford Mathematics London Public Lecture at the Science Museum, revealing his thoughts on the potential of Artificial Intelligence for science and mathematics before joining fellow mathematician Po-Shen Lo for a fireside chat.

What does he think? Well, he certainly sees a future where mathematics is embracing and benefiting from AI. It might even bring more mathematicians in to the subject, some of them not even professionals.

Find out more by watching the lecture from 5pm BST on Wednesday 7th August 2024 onwards.

Dan Halbert explains the origin of the Unix command more(1).

"Bringing Nixie tubes back to life" - small manufacturer of Nixie tubes and clocks in Březolupy, Czech republic, https://www.openstreetmap.org/search?query=B%C5%99ezolupy#map=13/49.11641/17.61486
Found on Jamie Zawinski's blog https://www.jwz.org/blog/2024/09/cathode-poisoning/, https://www.jwz.org/blog/2024/09/cathode-poisoning/#comment-252180

"Chialisp is a pure and functional language with a focus on security and auditability. Chialisp is commonly used on the Chia blockchain to lock funds in smart coins until spent and released by their owner. This enables behavior similar to that of smart contracts."
Mention on the Lisp timeline at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AutoLISP

Found on An Engineer's View - Applying logic, science and common sense, https://www.cosjwt.com/reading-modem-status-registers-in-ubuntu-linux/

Includes "Linkers and Loaders", which I have seen before, but apparently I had not bookmarked it.

On 23 March 2024, Rocket Lab launched the Advanced Composite Solar Sail System (ACS3), a NASA solar sail experiment. The main goal of the mission is to test the deployment of a 80 m2 (9 x 9 meter) solar sail from a 12U cubesat bus. The sail will be deployed late May or early June 2024, i.e. some 2 months after the launch. ACS3 (2024-077B) is in a 97.4 deg inclined, 993 x 1023 km sun-synchronous orbit.

There are many interesting articles on this blog which I discovered thanks to a link on Paolo Amoroso's blog https://journal.paoloamoroso.com/blogroll

The Structured Email (SML) working group will develop standards track specifications for:
- annotating human-readable email content with a machine-readable version, to allow for more reliable and accurate content analysis and processing; and
- recommendations for security and trust mechanisms that should be applied when processing machine-readable content in email messages.

Found on the TUHS mailing list

I discovered this blog via the link to http://johnj.com/posts/to-the-metal/ on https://planet.lisp.org/
His static site generators https://github.com/eigenhombre/weeds and https://github.com/eigenhombre/organa look interesting too.

"Jay Logue has an awesome set of tools using the user space file system support: FUSE for Linux and MacOS: https://github.com/jaylogue/retro-fuse which support UNIX v6, v7 and 2.9BSD filesystem formats." is intriguing.
Not directly related, but the links to SDF's interim computer museum in https://groups.google.com/g/pidp-11/c/NR_EUdMj3cI/m/Phu3neBrAQAJ are interesting too.