Lucans Bellum Civile (oder Pharsalia) ist einer der großen europäischen Referenztexte über die menschliche Destruktivität.

First of all, a happy New Year – we at CSTonline hope you have all had a good winter break. And while we certainly agree with more pessimistic assessments that see 2025 as not looking to be off to a promising start – with everything happening in the world right now – we are of the conviction that we can’t just throw our hands in the air and give in to resignation.

Santa has been very kind to me again this year.

I didn’t expect the announcement to come in the form of a press release. For a moment, I thought it was a hoax. A single line, broadcast simultaneously across every major network, platform, and device, written with almost mocking simplicity: “The Nobel Turing Challenge has been solved. Quantum computing and energy abundance are here.

We’re 6 weeks into the new year and I’m still catching up on papers from my late 2024 backlog.

Back in 2020, when I worked in the supply chain side of Google, I had a fun and impactful side project related to human-level explanations of linear programs. A linear program is a mathematical model that defines some number of variables, linear constraints, and a linear objective function. When some variables are forced to be integer (ILPs), you can solve a lot of useful problems like scheduling, routing, and packing.

With the vast amount of data we have these days for our planetary computing processing, it's naturally tempting to use more hardware offload. The obvious choice, GPGPUs, are not a great fit for the problem due to the difficulty of unlocking high data parallelism for geospatial data. So it's back to an old technology I worked on twelve years ago in the form of FPGAs!

We've been happy users of Matrix for our group communications in the EEG. Today we've been bringing in more members of the wider group to using it instead of Slack. As part of that, I've set up a cool bot called Hookshot which allows Matrix to be connected to external services such as GitHub and Atom/RSS feeds. This is a test post to demonstrate to the members of the EEG how Matrix and Atom work!

Este año estoy preparando los contenidos para el curso de tecnología educativa versión 2025.  La tecnología informática en la educación es un tema actual y en evolución se refiere al uso de herramientas, recursos y técnicas tecnológicas digitales disponibles a través de la Web por medio de dispositivos electrónicos como la computadora persona para mejorar el proceso de enseñanza y aprendizaje.

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