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- How Many Computers Are in Your Computer? https://www.gwern.net/Turing-complete#how-many-computers-are-in-your-computer 87 comments
- Computer security : A swarm of many stripes http://www.economist.com/node/16646188?story_id=16646188 6 comments
- How Many Computers Are in Your Computer? https://www.gwern.net/turing-complete#how-many-computers-are-in-your-computer 20 comments compsci
- How many apps do you have running in the background on your computer? https://www.reddit.com/r/productivity/comments/76hs0p/how_many_apps_do_you_have_running_in_the/ 3 comments productivity
- how many computer science students are there worldwide? https://www.reddit.com/r/compsci/comments/5mdtxo/how_many_computer_science_students_are_there/ 14 comments compsci
- How many webm or mp4 videos would overload an average user's computer and/or phone? https://www.reddit.com/r/web_design/comments/5jjwqz/how_many_webm_or_mp4_videos_would_overload_an/ 19 comments web_design
- How many people actually plug their iPhone into their computer? https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/5aslzs/how_many_people_actually_plug_their_iphone_into/ 221 comments apple
- Apple TV update 11/1 affecting many users - only shows computers, settings - called Apple and they said... https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/5aq96p/apple_tv_update_111_affecting_many_users_only/ 7 comments apple
- How many hours do software engineers / computer scientists work a week? https://www.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions/comments/9l5nxo/how_many_hours_do_software_engineers_computer/ 46 comments cscareerquestions
- Computer won’t start. Am I out of Luck, and if so how can I back up as many files as possible? https://www.reddit.com/r/techsupport/comments/7azw6l/computer_wont_start_am_i_out_of_luck_and_if_so/ 5 comments techsupport
- Ian Wienand's Computer Science from the Bottom Up. Online book covering many operating system topics. http://www.bottomupcs.com/ 3 comments compsci
- Would new leaps in protein folding computation produce many non-functional proteins? https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/4vq5ke/would_new_leaps_in_protein_folding_computation/ 9 comments askscience
- ACM and the Professional Programmer - Former ACM President Vint Cerf has an essay exploring the reality of many computer science professionals not being members of the ACM http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2639990 39 comments programming
- How do I know how many 6-Pin Power-Connectors for graphics cards my computer has without opening it up? http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c01961265&lang=en&cc=us&taskId=135&contentType=SupportFAQ&prodSeriesId=4048900&prodTypeId=12454 22 comments techsupport
- [humble bundle] cloud computing: how many of these are not so good, which (if any) are really good? link in text https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/78a6pj/humble_bundle_cloud_computing_how_many_of_these/ 8 comments sysadmin
- From my university's student paper: "...many labs are full of computers with two monitors to every 'brain' part of the computer." http://www.purdueexponent.org/?module=article&story_id=18138 66 comments programming
- A computer that is a hundred times more accurate than a human and a million times faster will make 10,000 times as many mistakes. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/oct/11/crash-how-computers-are-setting-us-up-disaster 11 comments technology
- I think many here will be glad to hear about a new magazine for the CV community: it is called Computer Vision News. http://www.rsipvision.com/ComputerVisionNews-2016April 8 comments computervision
- It’s the little things, Pt. 1: How small conundrums make many hate computers | Ars Technica http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/11/its-the-little-things-how-small-conundrums-make-many-hate-computers/ 4 comments technology
- Windows 8 Microsoft Accounts (can be used to log into computer, required for the app store, many metro apps, etc.) don't allow passwords greater than 16 characters in length. https://plus.google.com/112580269831077516723/posts/ebbe1zncih4 243 comments netsec
- A computer game in which players control a suicide bomber trying to kill as many civilians as possible has been condemned by victims of terrorism. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/3388318/suicide-bomber-video-game-condemned-by-terror-victims.html 2 comments technology
- Hey Nvidia, how many YEARS am I going to have to reset my Vibrance settings in the control panel every time I restart my computer, and report it every single time, before you do something about it? https://www.reddit.com/r/nvidia/comments/6xnl6z/hey_nvidia_how_many_years_am_i_going_to_have_to/ 37 comments nvidia
- Why would the computer not take rook? After Rxd5 why would white next move not be exd5. The computer made many different moves but no matter how many times I undid and repeated Rxd5 the computer refused to capture my Rook. Any explanations? https://i.redd.it/zhszexanotez.jpg 6 comments chess
- The Chromebook gave me a sense of joy and of freedom that I haven't for many years using a computing device. http://www.zdnet.com/the-chromebook-its-like-an-ipad-but-with-a-keyboard-7000009905/ 6 comments chromeos
- New 'Reservoir computing' opto-electric neural network simulacrum beats silicon supercomputers by cost at machine learning problems. New 'universal' form of computation present in many other systems. http://arxivindex.blogspot.com/2012/09/new-form-of-universal-computation.html 17 comments science
- [VID, purty computer] Charles Babbage, the man whom many consider to be the father of modern computing, never got to complete any of his life's work... till now http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyid=121206408&sc=fb&cc=fp 12 comments programming
- BOINC is a program that lets you donate your idle computer time to science projects like SETI@home, Climateprediction.net, Rosetta@home, World Community Grid, and many others. (x-post) http://boinc.berkeley.edu/download.php 9 comments science
- Happy Ada Lovelace Day! (Ada was what many consider the first computer programmer, working with Charles Babbage to solve problems with machines.) http://findingada.com/about/who-was-ada/ 13 comments technology
- Brain In A Box --- One billion euros for a brain in a box? Henry Markram's ready to build it, he just needs funding. His plan? To model the entire human brain on a computer. Highly ambitious, and many are sceptical. But would it be a waste of money? http://www.nature.com/news/computer-modelling-brain-in-a-box-1.10066 15 comments business
- A catalogue of unsolved killings, unexplained explosions and sinister computer viruses are leading many security experts to believe the US and its allies are carrying out covert operations against Iran's nuclear program. http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,15579161,00.html 3 comments worldnews
- Quote of the day: "Many programmers have created and promoted the computer programming language known as "open source code" to be shared on public sites at no cost, but licensing issues are murky." http://www.reuters.com/article/idusn3026798220101130 81 comments linux
- BOINC is a program that lets you donate your idle computer time to science projects like SETI@home, Climateprediction.net, Rosetta@home, World Community Grid, and many others. http://boinc.berkeley.edu/download.php 3 comments reddit.com
- "Use the idle time on your computer (Windows, Mac, or Linux) to cure diseases, discover pulsars, and do many other types of scientific research." http://boinc.berkeley.edu/ 116 comments science
- Tesla's Elon Musk debated Alibaba’s Jack Ma in China. Elon Musk said: AI is much smarter than humans on so many dimensions, Ma replied:Computers may be clever, but human beings are much smarter. We invented the computer—I've never seen a computer invent a human being. https://www.theinforadar.com/2019/08/teslas-elon-musk-debated-alibabas-jack.html 9 comments science
- Alan Turing: WWII codebreaker revealed as new face of £50 note - "As the father of computer science and artificial intelligence, as well as war hero, Alan Turing's contributions were far-ranging and path-breaking. Turing is a giant on whose shoulders so many now stand." https://news.sky.com/story/alan-turing-wwii-codebreaker-revealed-as-new-face-of-50-note-11763499 5 comments worldnews
- Not putting down the EOMA68 Libre Tea computer card project, but many sites claim it is a free hardware/open-source hardware device. In what ways is this true? Genuinely curious. https://www.reddit.com/r/freesoftware/comments/8w960x/not_putting_down_the_eoma68_libre_tea_computer/ 6 comments freesoftware
- Scientists have written a computer program that can automatically reconstruct long-extinct languages from modern ones. They have already used the program to produce evidence in favour of a 60-year old hypothesis about language evolution that many had believed to be wrong. http://www.nature.com/news/computer-program-roots-out-ancestors-of-modern-tongues-1.12407 19 comments science
- Just finished building my first computer, following r/buildapc's many guides, and I can't get the thing to start normally unless it boots from CD, and I keep the Win 7 DVD in the drive http://pcpartpicker.com/parts/partlist/ar/aGB 11 comments techsupport
- Widely advertised in science and electronics magazines, the GENIAC provided many youths with their first hands-on introduction to computer concepts and Boolean logic http://oldcomputermuseum.com/geniac.html 2 comments programming
- "The White House has acknowledged recycling its backup computer tapes of e-mail before October 2003, raising the possibility that many electronic messages have been taped over and are gone forever. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080116/ap_on_go_pr_wh/white_house_e_mail 4 comments politics
