Without it, you could legally download binaries of any software or email them to your friends (and the entire industry would likely look very different).
That's why the Franklin has more than earned its place in our vintage computing lab at the Recurse Center (@recurse.com).
4/4
Unsurprisingly, Apple sued, and the Third Circuit ruled in their favor. This case (Apple Computer, Inc. v. Franklin Computer Corp) is still the foundation of US copyright for compiled software.
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They could do this because it wasn't yet clear if you could copyright compiled binaries. After all, a binary is just a bunch of 1s and 0s, basically math, and you can't copyright math! (Source code was already established as being copyrightable.)
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This computer is the reason you can't download all software for free.
The Franklin Computer Corp was a computer manufacturer founded in the early 1980s. Their flagship product was a clone of the Apple II, one of the most popular personal computers of the day.
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Conspiracy theory: Banks and airlines discovered LLMs years ago and this explains their captchas.
"How did you spend your time off of work?"
If you're lucky enough to have a chunk of time when you don't need a job, you want to make it count.
Come learn how three Recuse Center alums chose to spend their time off.
How to Make Your Time Off Count: luma.com/zfhxstgy
Someone really should write this and then never change it.
"Choosing learning over autopilot"
A thoughtful, a concrete approach to coding rigorously with LLMs by an RC alum now at Netflix: anniecherkaev.com/choosing-lea...
unicode braille characters are 2x4 rectangles of dots where you can arbitrarily set any of the dots. That's 8x the pixels you normally get in the terminal!
anyway here's a proof of concept terminal SVG renderer using unicode braille:
Thank you!
Wrote about being halfway through the recurse center, beyblades, and bad musical instruments:
www.henryfellerhoff.com/blog/halfway...
Heh, sounds delightful.
I had a very fun moment at Recurse Center where I was showing code to someone to discuss. He leaned in to look closer, “Is that Inconsolata?” and I said “Yeah, wow, good eye” and he said “I made it.”
Good one!
What companies (in any domain) have done the following?
Around for decades
Profitable and growing
Privately held, run by founders
Expanded into new areas while maintaining a core mission
Maintained positive, good brand
Punch above their weight
Tech hiring in 2021: Awesome, this candidate is an 8/10. Let's hire!
Tech hiring now: Unfortunately, this candidate is a 9/10. We'll pass.
We very much welcome current profs at RC! We've had several professors do RC and return to their day jobs. Happy to answer any questions you have!
Nice handle @recurse.com
@recurse.com's local host last night was awesome. Great talks, wonderful company. Frederic Kettelhoit's Komucha lang (github.com/fkettelhoit/...) was particularly inspirational. Love me a lang with an effect system.
you're telling me a duck typed this code?
New Yorkers hate dogs 🚫🐕 (we have the data)
It's pairing jam day at RC and Chris, Brittney, Wilson, and Tajairi made a 311 noise complaint heat map of NYC.
🌱 Interested in coming to RC? Have any burning questions? Join us to learn more about what attending is like! You'll get to ask questions and hear directly from faculty and current Recursers about their experiences.
We’re hosting an info session on Tues, Oct 21 at 5:15 ET.
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A fellow Recurser, Ivan Savov, just finished a book on Stats and has a post on it with some freebies:
minireference.com/blog/noBSsta...
#stats #recurseCenter #RC #math
🟢 This month we held Breakpoint: An Evening of Projects and Demos!
10 Recursers and alums demo'ed their work, including games, camera-based apps that read your feelings and scramble your face, a NY shadow-henge finder, a Chinese idiom finder, a fractal painter, custom programming language, & more!
📝 Interested in applying to RC? Join us to learn & ask questions about what attending is like: spending 6 or 12 weeks sharpening your programming skills and following what excites you in a collaborative community!
We’re hosting an info session Mon, Oct 6th from 12:30-1pm ET
RSVP: luma.com/mn3kjnkj
🦠Watch Peter Whidden's first public talk on Mote: an interactive ecosystem simulation!
Mote uses a custom GPU-based physics engine to model hundreds of thousands of organisms, leading to fascinating emergent phenomena: a sandbox that is part game, part research.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hju0...
Thinking about applying to a Recurse Center (RC) batch? If you want to spend 6 or 12 weeks building what excites you (compilers! games! languages! research! machine learning! art!) within a community of thoughtful, curious peers, come join our info session this Thursday!
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This is a thoughtful post that echoes conversations I've had IRL with colleagues and friends. Also:
"You should use AI-powered tools to complement or increase your agency, not replace it."
^ This is where I've landed for my own work so far.. Should help me do & think *more* deeply, not less.
We spent two months talking with RC alums and thinking deeply about how LLMs are changing programming and learning.
Here’s what we learned, and how we're currently thinking about AI at RC: t.co/ddFj486ch8
This is one of my favorite projects anyone has ever done at RC.
