Open Source Laptops, Rebuilding Pong, Free Neural Networking Course: Friday Link List

Operating Systems

• Syllalbe OS should benefit now that REBOL 3 has been released under the Apache License. What does this mean for the world? Nothing. Syllable is a mostly pedantic project and REBOL is a difficult language that suffers the same flaws as smalltalk and has a severely limited scope compared to JavaScript (that already runs everywhere and is not encumbered by strange programming paradigms.)

Curiosities

• Stephen Hawking pushes for posthumous pardon for Alan Turing.
• cabel.me has an interesting look at an old building, with diagrams still on the walls from WWI, used over the years to print newspaper, but that now houses glistening pipes of fiber.

Algorithms

• Coursera has a great class on Neural Networks It is highly entertaining and enlightening; I'm slowly working through the lectures.

Making

• Andrew “bunnie” Huang has designed an open-source laptop motherboard with some great features, including built-in FPGA, touch-screen ports, and lots of UART /GPIO ports.
• Pong Reborn Rebuilding the original arcade version of Atari's Pong.