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Comment · 15 days ago
It was on the GCSE Computer Science curriculum in England until very recently!

IBM were still using them in 2004.

Comment · 27 days ago
Comment · 27 days ago
The shift probably happened earlier than this. Roger Bacon and others kick started the scientific revolution in the Christian west. Some argue that modern science is a uniquely Christian undertaking as Christianity provided a philosophical foundation for a rational and predictable world. See Stanley jaki or more recently Tom Holland.

More surprising perhaps is the removal of religion from education. Culture without a cult (other types of cult tend to fill the void, for example pledging allegiance daily to a constitution)

Comment · 1 month ago
I'm currently writing a history of this. What year in the 70s? I've struggled to find widespread logo use before the end of the 1970s.
Comment · 1 month ago
Polars is a world away from pandas, but I feel that dplyr still offers the most simple and understandable introduction to data analysis for the beginner. The above is a good example of this.
Comment · 2 months ago
How far is blender off this nowadays?
Comment · 4 months ago
Funding wise I asked a year or so back about crowd funding, but hear nothing back. My means are limited but I'm sure there are a lot of people like me who could band together. The project seems content on the big doners right now?
Comment · 4 months ago
did anything progress on trying to dig more out of the ground? i know that there was thinking that a lot of scrolls might still be down there
Comment · 4 months ago
Comment · 7 months ago
Great website! Can you describe the potential output? There is a little i sign but I can't click it on Firefox mobile.
Comment · 8 months ago
It's toward the bottom, the date is 24th Feb 2026. But yes, it could be from ten or twenty or thirty years ago....

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