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John Horton Conway, mathematician and inventor of Conway's Game of Life has been reported by a colleague to have died from COVID-19 at the age of 82. Conway's death has also been reported (in Italian) by the Italian website "MaddMaths!".
From Wikipedia:
The Game of Life, also known simply as Life, is a cellular automaton devised by the British mathematician John Horton Conway in 1970. The game is a zero-player game, meaning that its evolution is determined by its initial state, requiring no further input. One interacts with the Game of Life by creating an initial configuration and observing how it evolves. It is Turing complete and can simulate a universal constructor or any other Turing machine.
Many different types of patterns occur in the Game of Life, which are classified according to their behaviour. Common pattern types include: still lifes, which do not change from one generation to the next; oscillators, which return to their initial state after a finite number of generations; and spaceships, which translate themselves across the grid.
Rest In Peace, John.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by canopic jug on Sunday April 12 2020, @06:48PM (20 children)
There is an article, but it does not link to or cite any sources. So without a confirmation about his demise, the announcement is just a rumor.
That said, his most famous piece, Life, was quite interesting both as a game and from a scientific perspective. What I never looked into was how various guns, generators, and oscillators were designed.
Money is not free speech. Elections should not be auctions.
(Score: 3, Informative) by takyon on Sunday April 12 2020, @06:58PM (5 children)
https://www.i-programmer.info/news/82-heritage/13614-john-conway-dies-from-coronavirus.html [i-programmer.info]
https://twitter.com/sioroberts [twitter.com]
https://siobhanroberts.com/books/ [siobhanroberts.com]
Confirmed by a biographer. Probably solid enough.
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(Score: 2, Disagree) by canopic jug on Sunday April 12 2020, @07:07PM (4 children)
Ok. Thanks. It looks like the sad news is confirmed by the one source there in your first link. Tweeter is just hearsay and the third link does not seem to mention his death.
Money is not free speech. Elections should not be auctions.
(Score: 3, Funny) by takyon on Sunday April 12 2020, @07:53PM (3 children)
Twitter is not just hearsay.
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(Score: 3, Touché) by Runaway1956 on Sunday April 12 2020, @08:21PM (1 child)
You're right. It's just twitsay.
(Score: 3, Touché) by RamiK on Sunday April 12 2020, @11:01PM
Ladies and gentlemen, Mr Conway Twitty [youtube.com]
compiling...
(Score: 3, Informative) by DannyB on Monday April 13 2020, @04:33PM
Heresy?
Difficult to know what to believe in the age of the Trump virus.
When trying to solve a problem don't ask who suffers from the problem, ask who profits from the problem.
(Score: 2) by acid andy on Sunday April 12 2020, @07:00PM (3 children)
Yeah there's discussion [reddit.com] going on online about sources [wikipedia.org]. I wasn't certain but with his colleague, and a claim of his wife, reporting it, combined with some mentions in newspapers, I figured it was worth breaking the story here. The other tech sites I looked at don't seem to have picked up on it yet.
If a cat has kittens, does a rat have rittens, a bat bittens and a mat mittens?
(Score: 2) by barbara hudson on Sunday April 12 2020, @09:07PM (2 children)
SoylentNews is social media. Says so right in the slogan. Soylentnews is people, not tech.
(Score: 2) by kazzie on Monday April 13 2020, @04:56AM (1 child)
It's called "Plague, Inc" .
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Monday April 13 2020, @04:34PM
It will need a more marketable name than COVID-19.
I propose: The Trump Virus
When trying to solve a problem don't ask who suffers from the problem, ask who profits from the problem.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Nuke on Sunday April 12 2020, @07:01PM (7 children)
Trial and error. I spent hours at it. I made a pattern that grew and disintegrated but left a replica of itself behind, but then a bit of debris came back and ruined it. Very frustrating.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by acid andy on Sunday April 12 2020, @07:14PM (3 children)
I'll have to give it another look sometime. When I first encountered it my attention span was too short, so beyond some random fiddling and initial curiosity, I never did much with it. I hope the same won't be said about my real life!
If a cat has kittens, does a rat have rittens, a bat bittens and a mat mittens?
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 13 2020, @04:31AM (2 children)
That's a wonderful quote :
(Score: 2) by acid andy on Monday April 13 2020, @12:28PM
Thanks! An abbreviated version is now going in my stash of Soylent sigs.
If a cat has kittens, does a rat have rittens, a bat bittens and a mat mittens?
(Score: 2) by acid andy on Monday April 13 2020, @06:13PM
Actually I probably won't use it as a sig anytime soon. It's too depressing. I don't mind if anyone else wants to, as long as they attribute it to me.
If a cat has kittens, does a rat have rittens, a bat bittens and a mat mittens?
(Score: 2, Interesting) by shrewdsheep on Sunday April 12 2020, @08:37PM
Actually, when I programmed Game of Life I just watched it with random starting patterns over and over again (each run usually settles quite quickly). Many of the well known patterns (especially the gliders) will emerge quite often. I planned to capture the starting patterns to isolate the interesting structures but never did eventually, when I realized that what I found was well known already. My suspicion is that patterns were discovered this way initially.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by bzipitidoo on Sunday April 12 2020, @11:09PM (1 child)
If you're looking for novel life forms, brute force or random search is all you can do, because, as they proved with the discovery of the 1st glider gun, Life is unpredictable. Yet the search space can be greatly reduced, the search made more focused, by adding various arbitrary criteria. My own contribution is a very minor discovery. I stumbled upon a pattern that would produce a lightweight spacesnship in something like 69 generations, and leave no debris behind after another 70 or so generations. Posted it to one of the Life boards where, as far as I could tell, no one noticed :p.
"Construction" Life is a whole different game. There, you're using known patterns as building blocks, usually to do some neat computation.
(Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Monday April 13 2020, @12:56PM
Construction and discovery -- They are like the two shoes on your feet -- you get further with both. (misquoted from Straczynski's Babylon 5)
The glider gun was discovered, if I recall correctly, by (automatically) shooting random combinations of gliders at each other and filtering the results to identify configurations that might be interesting.
Once they had that, they could set up combinations of glider guns that would shoot out gliders in a controlled fashion to create further glider guns -- a provably unbounded expansion of the Life universe.
Random exploration produced the raw materials for later constructions.
There's a parallel in the discovery of the Conway numbers, which I'm told is one of the things Conway was most proud of.
Conway started out studying take-away games (one of the simplest of of these is the one-heap version of Nim). He invented operations for combining take-away games to make newones, and at some point noticed that some of these operations had properties similar to well-known arithmetic operations.
Finding a specific set of games that actually behaved like the integers was next, and once discovered, apparently by chance (who would have guessed that games would behave like numbers), it was a matter of construction to generalize and choose sets of games that behaved like the real numbers, transfinite ordinals, all fitting neatly into one formalism.
He wrote a book about this, "On Numbers and games", which describes the theory of take-away games, and poits out where in that theory his numbers reside.
Donald Knuth;s book "Surreal Numbers: How Two Ex-Students Turned on to Pure Mathematics and Found Total Happiness" presented the number system in a fictional format, without any reference to the game theory. A totally surprising event, when presented without the precursor thinking.
-- hendrik
(Score: 5, Funny) by DannyB on Sunday April 12 2020, @07:38PM
Do not question whether he died unless you have looked at his neighbors in the next generation.
RIP.
When trying to solve a problem don't ask who suffers from the problem, ask who profits from the problem.
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Sunday April 12 2020, @10:46PM
When I "played" life, I didn't design guns, generators, etc. so much as let them emerge from random starting positions, possibly nurturing them when they appeared vulnerable to nearby challenges.
🌻🌻 [google.com]
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 12 2020, @07:01PM (1 child)
Those should do well after the Wuhan Flu kills us all.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 12 2020, @08:17PM
I started to program myself into the game, then Snowcrash happened.
(Score: 5, Interesting) by Snotnose on Sunday April 12 2020, @07:21PM (19 children)
I'm old enough that when Life showed up in Scientific America I programmed it in BASIC on my TRS-80. It wasn't working and I couldn't figure out why. Took a lunch break, came back, and a generation had passed. That was when I started to think about how long programs took to run. It's also what motivated me to learn Z80 assembly. Keep in mind I had no formal training in programming at the time, it was all self taught.
Whenever I need to learn a new language I write Life. I've done it in BASIC, Z80, 8086, C, C++, Tcl/Tk, Python, Java, and probably several others I've forgotten.
When the dust settled America realized it was saved by a porn star.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 12 2020, @07:29PM (11 children)
Thanks for sharing that, Grandpa... you know you can just download it as a Ruby gem instead of writing it yourself.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 12 2020, @07:33PM
Ruby? Damn kids! Get off our lawn!
(Score: 3, Interesting) by DannyB on Sunday April 12 2020, @07:43PM (4 children)
There is something to be said for writing a simple exercise for yourself. Doing your own work. Especially in a new language.
My favorite new language exercises tend to do with prime numbers, and mandelbrot set generation. Even if the mandelbrot output is in ASCII grayscale.
Does the language have good data structures? GC? Lazy evaluation? Iterators? Yield? What kind of GUI output capabilities, if any? Does it have large integer arithmetic? Bonus points if it has something like Java's BigDecimal.
Do your own homework. Exams should be on a mobius strip. Stop. Put your pencils down. Turn your exam paper over.
When trying to solve a problem don't ask who suffers from the problem, ask who profits from the problem.
(Score: 3, Touché) by gawdonblue on Sunday April 12 2020, @10:23PM (3 children)
Java is the new COBOL :)
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Monday April 13 2020, @04:07PM (2 children)
I believe Java is the new COBOL in the specific sense that it won't go away any time soon because of the vast investment in software written in it.
While Java had been having nice upgrades at a slow pace, in the last few years Java upgrades have become much larger in vision and at a faster pace. So I think Java is unlike COBOL in the sense of being lost in time. One evidence of that is that it is still in the top 1 or 2 of programming languages. eg, it's where the jobs are. It's not like COBOL where you almost cannot find anyone left alive that knows it. With the recent and planned changes to the language, I expect it to stay relevant for some time.
When trying to solve a problem don't ask who suffers from the problem, ask who profits from the problem.
(Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Tuesday April 14 2020, @11:56AM (1 child)
The downside of that is that old Java programs start to fail on new Java implementations.
-- hendrik
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Tuesday April 14 2020, @03:25PM
They have been very careful to avoid that. I have not had that problem in practice. But I have heard of others who have. That said, I don't believe it is anything near the scale of problem that the Python 2 to Python 3 change was.
One big change is modules. You can largely ignore it unless your system is big enough that you want to take advantage of it.
Another is deprecated features. There is plenty of warning. Your third party library dependencies are the most likely thing to bite you. Example: JasperReports, this uses Groovy (language), which depends on a deprecated feature. Upgraded to Groovy 2.5.10, but still waiting on 3.0 for the real fix. I keep my eye on these kind of problems for my project. Looking just now, it looks like Groovy 3 might be ready for me to do some tasting.
Even on mainframes, which are legendary for their backward compatibility, there is still the saying (Devil's DP Dictionary) (from the song) . . .
I promised my love an upgrade with no cryin'
. . . .
I lied about the upgrade with no cryin'.
When trying to solve a problem don't ask who suffers from the problem, ask who profits from the problem.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 12 2020, @10:12PM (1 child)
Ruby... is that like haxe for old people?
(Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Tuesday April 14 2020, @12:03PM
Haxe looks interesting for the number of platforms it will generate code for.
I wonder if it's practical to debug a program generating C++ and run it on Javascript as a submission to Ludum Dare?
-- hendrik
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 12 2020, @10:57PM (2 children)
yeah typical millenial mindset. User instead of creator.
What a pathetic, entitled, ungrateful, useless waste of a generation.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Snotnose on Sunday April 12 2020, @11:33PM (1 child)
For you wanna be creators here's a hint. Instead of looking at every cell every generation, when you parse a generation just keep track of cells that might change. You don't even have to optimize this, a simple brute force list of every cell that might change will give you a 10x speedup.
Coming from a C background, Java's ArrayList's are pretty awesome.
When the dust settled America realized it was saved by a porn star.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by hendrikboom on Monday April 13 2020, @01:14PM
I did an implementation in the 70's on Unix on the PDP-11.
It's a small-memory machine (even by the standards of the 70's, having only 48K of RAM) so saving space was important.
I decided to store the world as a quad-tree, having noticed in previous runs that a lot of the world consisted of voids where there was nothing. On the average, I recall, that at each level of the quad-tree, about two of the smaller quads were populated. So this ended up being a huge space-saving.
I also kept track of which quads had seen any change in the previous generation, so I could focus on those quads and their neighbours.
This was in the days of character-only CRT terminals.
To save screen space, I put two Life squares in each typed terminal, giving four combinations:
: ' ,
Yes, I typed a space there too, though you might not see it.
When the size of the game board got larger than the screen capacity, I summarized the leaves of the tree; the display would just show which of some higher level of the quad-tree were populated.
It ended up being a small amount of quite tricky code,
I was an amusement for an afternoon or two. I actually got a request for a copy of the program from Kees Koster at another academic site.
He said his students were going to waste time playing Life anyway, and he thought he'd like to avoid them wasting their time writing inferior Life programs.
I don't know if they every improved on my code.
-- hendrik
(Score: 5, Interesting) by pdfernhout on Monday April 13 2020, @12:57AM (2 children)
I also implemented life in BASIC -- although on the Commodore PET and in high school around 1980. Seemed a lot faster than what you described but maybe you were using graphics mode in the TRS-80 and had a lot more cells whereas I was using character mode with less cells? I also was doing some assembly then, but I don't remember if I did that with Life. I think now that maybe I started that implementation from this program in BASIC Computer Games: https://www.atariarchives.org/basicgames/showpage.php?page=100 [atariarchives.org]
Before that, I wrote a proposal to a science conference/expo for high schoolers to use the game of Life (maybe to be done on a checkerboard) to explore the idea of self-replicating organisms. But that proposal was not accepted for whatever reason. I wish I could find that proposal but I am not sure I kept a copy.
Thinking about all that now, in a way, Conway's game of life bridged a gulf between computers and biology for me -- where connecting computers and biology has been a recurring theme ever since. For example, I worked on a garden simulator and an application to design and breed 3D botanical plants -- both done with my wife who I met in a Biology PhD program. I started in that program to learn how to write biological simulations to make that garden simulator to help people grow their own food and also as a step towards a space habitat simulator -- which I thought of when working with an organic farming certification program in New Jersey while talking to a development director there who was all excited about GIS. My master's thesis in Biology (consolation prize from that PhD program) was on modelling the carbon cycle and climate change. And I currently am doing programming for a company that makes biology-related hardware.
An undergraduate student implemented Life as a final project (with changes to the rules) when I was teaching C for Biologists back around 1992 (as a grad student filling in for a professor who got a detached retina the first week or so of classes).
My wife has the game of Life as a new tab plugin on her Chromebook (which seems to be a real energy hungry app if you leave it running for long).
Thanks for building that bridge between biology and computing for me, John Conway!
To be fair, the movie "Silent Running" also primed me for that, as it connected robots and ecology. Plus I had a much older sister interested in biology and medicine who provided me with things like the Carolina Biological Supply catalog. But Conway's Game of Life forged a solid connection between computing technology and biology for me by being both simple (and thus feasible to do locally) and at the same time being very interesting in an open ended way.
We've come a long way that you can run Life quickly now in a browser: http://pmav.eu/stuff/javascript-game-of-life-v3.1.1/ [pmav.eu]
Plus now there is "the simulation argument" as these ideas have moved into philosophy, metaphysics, religion, and movies...
Stupid me went to Princeton and never thought to look Professor Conway up there and thank him in person -- my career might have turned out very different if I had. Although I am not sure I knew then he taught there when I was a student -- as I ended up in the Psychology Department. I noticed he was at Princeton a year or so ago realizing someone I knew back then who liked computer games a lot then had studied with him in the math department.
RIP Professor Conway. I hope you are on to even better things.
The biggest challenge of the 21st century: the irony of technologies of abundance used by scarcity-minded people.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 13 2020, @01:56AM
I saw Silent Running in the theater as a kid. That move really made an impression on me, and then when I saw Star Wars I thought that they stole a lot of the robot stuff from them. And then later whenever I saw Bruce Dern in a movie, I'd say "oh, it's that guy from Silent Running", but the funny thing was it seemed he was usually playing an SOB, which of course was much different tha his role in that movie.
(Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Monday April 13 2020, @01:35PM
I appreciate the game of Life was a bridge for you.
But I should mention that cellular automata weren't original with Conway. Nor were self-replicating machines [wikipedia.org]
It's something the Von Neumann had tinkered with long before, in the 50's, including the design of a self-reproducing machine within a cellular automaton.
Conway seemed to have built the Life game exploring the boundary between order and chaos, making something simple (far simpler than Von Neumann's) that was neither too trivial nor too chaotic to be in interest. At that time neither he nor anyone else had any idea whether this would end up being a general computational engine.
Publication of Life in Martin Gardner's Scientific American column resulted in publicity, and it became a fad to build or find interesting configurations.
-- hendrik
(Score: 3, Interesting) by hendrikboom on Monday April 13 2020, @12:25PM (2 children)
The version of Life that most impressed me back when was the Amiga implementation.
They managed to use the Amiga's 2d graphics chip (a blitter with some logical operations) to get 17 generations per second, full-screen, with each square of the Life board taking one pixel.
It ran at animation speed. You could see the groups swarming around and living, spreading, and dying.
An impressive show.
No doubt a lot better could be done on today's GPUs.
-- hendrik
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 14 2020, @06:48AM (1 child)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hashlife [wikipedia.org]
(Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Tuesday April 14 2020, @12:23PM
Thanks for the interesting link. It looks as if I might have been the first to use quadtrees in Life. I wish I still had the source code.
I remember wondering about the kinds of speedup later used in hashlife, but I'm sure I wouldn't have had enough memory to actually use them.
I now wonder if sharing memory between different quadtree nodes would save enough memory that the intergeneration hash table would have been feasible. I suspect not.
-- hendrik
(Score: 2) by TrentDavey on Monday April 13 2020, @11:01PM
I'm old enough to remember drawing out a grid with squares the size of a 25¢ piece and playing on that. Cumbersome and time-consuming but interesting.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Sunday April 12 2020, @07:51PM
Download the java version here:
https://bitstorm.org/gameoflife/standalone/ [bitstorm.org]
Or, install Golly from your distro's repositories.
(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 12 2020, @07:54PM
** NEVER TAKE THE MARK, AT ALL COSTS! **
-- this article is here for historical reasons, never take the mark! --
https://eu.usatoday.com/story/tech/2017/08/09/you-get-chipped-eventually/547336001/ [usatoday.com]
You will get chipped — eventually
Jefferson Graham
USA TODAY
LOS ANGELES — You will get chipped. It’s just a matter of time.
In the aftermath of a Wisconsin firm embedding microchips in employees last week to ditch company badges and corporate logons, the Internet has entered into full-throated debate.
Religious activists are so appalled, they’ve been penning nasty 1-star reviews of the company, Three Square Market, on Google, Glassdoor and social media.
On the flip side, seemingly everyone else wants to know: Is this what real life is going to be like soon at work? Will I be chipped?
“It will happen to everybody,” says Noelle Chesley, 49, associate professor of sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. “But not this year, and not in 2018. Maybe not my generation, but certainly that of my kids.”
Gene Munster, an investor and analyst at Loup Ventures, is an advocate for augmented reality, virtual reality and other new technologies. He thinks embedded chips in human bodies is 50 years away. “In 10 years, Facebook, Google, Apple and Tesla will not have their employees chipped,” he says. “You’ll see some extreme forward-looking tech people adopting it, but not large companies.”
The idea of being chipped has too “much negative connotation” today, but by 2067 “we will have been desensitized by the social stigma,” Munster says.
A microchip is shown compared with a dime Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2017, at Three Square Market in River Falls, Wis.,
For now, Three Square Market, or 32M, hasn’t offered concrete benefits for getting chipped beyond badge and log-on stats. Munster says it was a “PR stunt” for the company to get attention to its product and it certainly succeeded, getting the small start-up air play on CBS, NBC and ABC, and generating headlines worldwide. The company, which sells corporate cafeteria kiosks designed to replace vending machines, would like the kiosks to handle cashless transactions.
This would go beyond paying with your smartphone. Instead, chipped customers would simply wave their hands in lieu of Apple Pay and other mobile-payment systems.
The benefits don't stop there. In the future, consumers could zip through airport scanners sans passport or drivers license; open doors; start cars; and operate home automation systems. All of it, if the technology pans out, with the simple wave of a hand.
Not a GPS tracker
The embedded chip is not a GPS tracker, which is what many critics initially feared. However, analysts believe future chips will track our every move.
For example, pets for years have been embedded with chips to store their name and owner contact. Indeed, 32M isn’t the first company to embed chips in employees. In 2001, Applied Digital Solutions installed the “VeriChip” to access medical records but the company eventually changed hands and stopped selling the chip in 2010.
In Sweden, BioHax says nearly 3,000 customers have had its chip embedded to do many things, including ride the national rail system without having to show the conductor a ticket.
In the U.S., Dangerous Things, a Seattle-based firm, says it has sold “tens of thousands” of chips to consumers via its website. The chip and installation cost about $200.
After years of being a subculture, “the time is now” for chips to be more commonly used, says Amal Graafstra, founder of Dangerous Things. “We’re going to start to see chip implants get the same realm of acceptance as piercings and tattoos do now.”
In other words, they’ll be more visible, but not mainstream yet.
“It becomes part of you the way a cellphone does,” Graafstra says. “You can never forget it, and you can’t lose it. And you have the capability to communicate with machines in a way you couldn’t before.”
But after what we saw in Wisconsin last week, what's next for the U.S. workforce? A nation of workers chipping into their pods at Federal Express, General Electric, IBM, Microsoft and other top corporations?
Experts contend consumers will latch onto chips before companies do.
Chesley says corporations are slower to respond to massive change and that there will be an age issue. Younger employees will be more open to it, while older workers will balk. “Most employers who have inter-generational workforces might phase it in slowly,” she says. “I can’t imagine people my age and older being enthusiastic about having devices put into their bodies.”
Adds Alec Levenson, a researcher at University of Southern California’s Center for Effective Organizations, “The vast majority of people will not put up with this.”
Three Square Market said the chips are voluntary, but Chesley says that if a company announces a plan to be chipped, the expectation is that you will get chipped — or risk losing out on advancement, raises and being a team player.
“That’s what we’re worried about,” says Bryan Allen, chief of staff for state Rep. Tina Davis (D), who is introducing a bill in Pennsylvania to outlaw mandatory chip embedding. “If the tech is out there, what’s to stop an employer from saying either you do this, or you can’t work here anymore.”
Several states have passed similar laws, while one state recently saw a similar bill die in committee. "I see this as a worker's rights issue," says Nevada state Sen. Becky Harris (R), who isn't giving up. "This is the wrong place to be moving," she says.
Should future corporations dive in to chipping their employees, they will have huge issues of “trust” to contend with, says Kent Grayson, a professor of marketing at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.
“You’ve got to have a lot of trust to put one of those in your body,” Grayson says. Workers will need assurances the chip is healthy, can't be hacked, and its information is private, he says.
Meanwhile, religious advocates have taken to social media to express their displeasure about chipping, flooding 32M’s Facebook page with comments like “boycott,” “completely unnecessary” and “deplorable.” On 32M’s Google page, Amy Cosari a minister in Hager City, Wisc., urges employees to remove the chip.
“When Jesus was raised, he was raised body and soul, and it was him, not zombie, not a ghost and we are raised up in the same way,” Cosari wrote. ”Employees of 32Market, you are not a walking debit card.”
Get used to it, counsels Chesley.
Ten years ago, employees didn’t look at corporate e-mail over the weekend. Now they we do, “whether we like it or not,” he says.
Be it wearable technology or an embedded chip, the always on-always connected chip is going to be part of our lives, she says.
Contributing: Madeline Purdue in San Francisco.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 12 2020, @07:54PM
He did SO much more, but for 50 years that is all they talked about when he was interviewed.
Numberphile Conway late life interview [youtube.com]. However, he talks about how liberating is was in that link. On that page is the Conway Numberphile playlist, which are all very good.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by fadrian on Sunday April 12 2020, @08:06PM (1 child)
He was an incredible mathematician who's contributions to game theory and computational mathematics made him the natural successor to John von Neumann. Life was one of this more minor mathematical notions.
That is all.
(Score: 3, Funny) by hendrikboom on Monday April 13 2020, @12:20PM
Incredible? I don't believe it.
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 12 2020, @08:57PM (1 child)
Before it becomes like the Green site, just Stop with the Obituaries.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 13 2020, @06:05AM
Don't worry. Persevere through the wave of deaths over the next 18 months and there will be less old people to talk about later.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 12 2020, @09:04PM
To have such a great career only to have it ended by the Trump virus just doesn't seem fair.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 12 2020, @09:32PM
Good and decent people are dying. I'm guessing scumbags are too. Sadly not enough of the latter.
And it's too bad that John Prine [wikipedia.org] is dead from COVID-19 too.
A damn shame [youtube.com].