[Nottingham] [Social] *TODAY* 8:30pm Thursday 12/11/2020: Surfing a New Age!

Martin martin at ml1.co.uk
Fri Nov 13 22:59:11 UTC 2020


Folks,

> *TODAY* 8:30pm Thursday 12/11/2020 (That's 8:30pm _GMT_ :-) )
> 
> NLUG 'Social': *Surfing a New Age* !

To briefly recap some of the topic links we covered:

(In whatever random order :-) )


Ya cannae take the logarithm of a negative number!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logarithm

Raspberry Pi 400: the $70 desktop PC
https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/raspberry-pi-400-the-70-desktop-pc/

SpiNNaker (Spiking Neural Network Architecture)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpiNNaker

SpiNNaker: 1 million core neuromorphic platform
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3MlOAru6Qk

Human Brain Project
Advances in neuromorphic computing technology
Steve Furber, The University of Manchester
(Introducing SpiNNaker2)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvlKVrvtcx4

Unix time
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_time

Julian day
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_day

Covert Bombe
https://www.bad-dog-designs.co.uk/contemporary-clocks/bombe/

Nixie Tube Clocks - DIY Gallery
https://www.bad-dog-designs.co.uk/submitted/

OpenWrt on Raspberry Pi
https://openwrt.org/toh/raspberry_pi_foundation/raspberry_pi

Raspberry Pi PoE
https://www.raspberrypi.org/products/poe-hat/?resellerType=home

SpaceX at Boca Chica
https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/tag/boca-chica/


And... Basic, Compilers, p-code, 3d graphics...

p-code
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bytecode

WebAssembly
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebAssembly

And whatever else?


Have fun! :-)

Cheers,
Martin



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