Yes, computers helped to crack the enigma (we did hear about that at length) but also greatly supported the Nazi regime, for example by selling 1.5 billion punch cards and corresponding machines for censuses. How can it be that CS never discusses this history?
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this is incredible! How have I never heard any mention of this before? Thank you, Felienne!
Wow, that‘s super … wild! This is as of yet still very experimental - and also somewhat slow, so animations etc. almost feel out of scope - which they actually are for the purpose of the curriculum this is for. I love how you‘re fearlessly forging ahead!
Last night at SAP HQ in Walldorf I first tested the development version of a new image composition extension for Snap! out in the wild with our campus ambassadors. Try it yourself! snap.berkeley.edu/versions/dev...
GenAI as automobile for the mind, and exercise as the antidote: A metaphor for predicting GenAI’s impact computinged.wordpress.com/2026/02/16/g...
I’m super excited about making first-class-ness first-class in Snap! v12: Create abstract data types (ADTs) and domain-specific languages (DSLs) with dynamic, graphical widgets for data structures ranging from fractions and shapes to melodies, data bases and neural networks.
Going to SIGCSE TS next week? Consider attending our tutorial session: A Hands-on and Interactive Introduction to the Fundamentals of Artificial Intelligence using Snap!, and our BOF: A Community of Snap! Educators – New Features and Tools for Teaching AI
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Personally Meaningful Data to Motivate Learning in Data Science and AI computinged.wordpress.com/2026/02/09/p...
Some pictures from our workshops during @fosdem.org junior.
A red finger puppet, it has an owls ears, googly eyes and a shiny gem nose, it has arms coming out the sides of its body and has a tail. Its being held by a child.
I loved the energy in the Create‑a‑Critter workshop at #FosdemJunior #fosdem Children explored @turtlestitch.bsky.social coding and decorated a colourful range of imaginative critters (with a little help from their parents). @fosdem.org
My #TurtleStitch resources: www.warwick.ac.uk/turtlestitch
Kudos to the #FOSDEM team, my talk “Deep Learning Demystified - Having Fun with Neural Networks in Snap!” from last Sunday in Brussels is already online: fosdem.org/2026/schedul...
Jens Moenig running a workshop at fosdem, he is standing to the side of a display in a classroom, where the screen shows snap with the text "Hi I'm Jens"
Enjoying @jmoenig.bsky.social musical workshop at #Fosdem #Fosdemjunior using Snap!
Heading to #FOSDEM this weekend? I’ll be giving a talk about neural networks in Snap! on Sunday in the Educational Devroom and hang out with kids and teachers at @fosdem Jr.: fosdem.org/2026/schedul... Don’t hesitate to approach me to chat about Snap!, blocks programming or the state of CSEd!
This is super exciting, I can‘t wait!
Didn‘t know you‘re coming to FOSDEM! This is so great, are you presenting?
land of bribe checks and extortion balances
https://web.archive.org/web/20230322172012id_/https://conservatory.scheme.org/schemers/Miscellaneous/imagine.txt
Scheme, the ur programming language, is 50 years old, as Jason Hemann just reminded me.
Look, Ma: The latest issue of @acm.org INROADS Magazine features an interview with me. It’s open-access, so you can read up on my incoherent blabberings and old-dude anecdotes about block based programming & friends.
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Those are beautiful! I love the well-worn patina of the French one with the mysterious hole in Napoleon III’s head…
Yep, it‘s a genuine ancient Roman bronze As from approx. 200 BC, minted in Hispania. Not rare or expensive at all, there are millions of them around, the Romans literally polluted all of Europe with the coins they‘ve lost 😂
January - named after Janus, one of Rome‘s oldest and most popular deities, looking both back and forward, the god of change which they aptly put on their … change!
#HappyNewYear
Snap! is now accessible in 48 languages. Thank you, Serge Faure, for contributing the Vietnamese translation as latest addition over the holidays! Now live in v12 beta: snap.berkeley.edu/versions/dev...
Render unto Casar!
Turtle geometry with a twist: Let sprites draw, stamp & write onto each other. Coming to Snap! v12 next year. Play with the beta now: snap.berkeley.edu/versions/dev...
Another incredible use of this tutorial is classifying 25 notes on a piano. Using a 450-50-26 model (I include a backgrounds sample), the results are mind-boggling!! In the list I show the note and how many times out of 331 samples it is predicted. My testing method is in the video. Next I need 1/2
Oh wow, this is incredible, Glenn!
Today in 1920, #ACMTuringAward recipient Kenneth Iverson was born. He received the 1979 award for his pioneering effort in programming languages and mathematical notation resulting in what the computing field now knows as APL: amturing.acm.org/award_winner...
also check out Michael Kölling's lovely remix of my project in his fabulous Strype programming system: www.linkedin.com/posts/kollin...
Light a candle with Snap! snap.berkeley.edu/snap/snap.ht...
I’ve been quite excited this past 10 days as I have been able to get this working for me to classify sounds astoundingly accurately. I only want to be able to do any three sounds to work with young children, however I’ve tried 26 classes and it still works flawlessly! Thanks for all you do!
