“Kathleen Booth, who has died aged 100, co-designed of one of the world’s first operational computers and wrote two of the earliest books on computer design and programming,” the Telegraph wrote this week. “She was also credited with the invention of the first assembly language, a programming language designed to be readable by users.” In 1946 she joined a team of mathematicians under Andrew Booth at Birkbeck College undertaking calculations for the scientists working on the X-ray crystallography images which contributed to the discovery of the double helix shape of DNA…. To help the number-crunching involved Booth had embarked on building a computing machine called the Automatic Relay Calculator or ARC, and in 1947 Kathleen accompanied him on a six-month visit to Princeton University, where they consulted John von Neumann, who had developed the idea of storing programs in a computer. On their return to England they co-wrote General Considerations in the Design of an All Purpose Electronic Digital Computer, and went on to make modifications to the original ARC to incorporate the lessons learnt. Kathleen devised the ARC assembly language for the computer and designed the assembler.Source: Inoreader – Computing Pioneer Who Invented the First Assembly Language Dies at Age 100
Monthly Archives: October 2022
Pablo Neruda
Antes de mim
Não tenho ciúmes.
Vem com um homem
às tuas costas,
vem com cem homens entre os teus cabelos,
vem com mil homens entre teu peito e teus pés,
vem como um rio
cheio de afogados
que encontra o mar furioso,
a espuma eterna, o tempo!
Traz todos eles
para onde eu te espero:
sempre estaremos sós,
sempre seremos tu e eu
sozinhos sobre a terra
para começar a vida!
Pablo Neruda. Sempre
Marii Freire
https://Pensamentos.me/VEM comigo!
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Santarém, Pá 29 de outubro de 2022

Life
Life isn’t a vacation. It’s where we uncover who we and what our purpose is.
© Norma Bobb-Semple 2022
Os Miliners, Paul Signac
Os Miliners é uma pintura de Paul Signac. O artista faz parte do movimento artístico pós-impressionista, e junto com Georges Seurat, foi o responsável pela criação de duas uma novas técnicas chamada de pontilhismo e divisionismo. Também, em conjunto com Seurat, formou a Sociedade de Artistas Independentes.
O pintor começou com pinturas no estilo impressionista até conhecer Georges Seurat e se impressionar com uma nova forma de fazer arte. Seurat fez muito sucesso com sua obra Uma tarde de domingo na ilha de La Grande Jatte estreou suas pinturas neoimpressionistas com obras como Os Miliners:

Os Miliners é uma obra com características neoimpressionista pontilhista. Paul Signac utilizou a técnica do pontilhismo pra compor a pintura. Essa é uma das pinturas que o artista faz sobre trabalhadores, outra tela sobre esse mesmo tema foi o The Demolisher. Mas em Os Miliners, Signac…
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Bye Bye Twitter
I downloaded my Twitter archive and deactivated my Twitter account. Have no clue how well it will or will not do but do not want to encourage or facilitate the guy who just bought it. Grin.
Nightfall – A Haiku Poem by Anita Bacha

As nightfall darkens Creepy hooting of an owl Eyes are all we see Anita Bacha Thank you for your visit, my dear friends. Happy Sunday
Nightfall – A Haiku Poem by Anita Bacha
Dems, Don’t Believe the Pollsters! Voters Get That This Is a Choice Election

Dems, every vote counts more than ever. Most of the elections in swing states are toss up races. GOP MAGAs political operatives would love for voters to buy the punditry hype that GOP MAGA candidates are slated to win these states’ elections to depress voter turnout.
But with a record number of Americans taking time to mail in their ballots and to stand in line in states with early voting days, the political pollsters cannot possibly make accurate predictions.
See: Early voting turnout breaking records two weeks before …https://www.cbsnews.com/news/midterm-elections…

Dems, this upcoming November 2022 elections is a “choice” election versus a referendum on the performance of the Democratic Party US president, POTUS Biden.’ Dems get the reality that Americans are suffering financial pain because of worldwide inflation and higher gas prices, post the COVID pandemic shutdown days and post Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, limiting oil supplies. Dems have been…
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Uh OH….Shall We Pray For Their Souls?
A headline from Daily Kos:
Lindsey Graham rides into Georgia with a closing message: ‘I want every liberal to be miserable’
OH SHUCKS…
And I thought “Love Thy Neighbor As Thyself” was one of the commandments. Wish it were…
Now that we can look at them, let’s see how MAGA scores….
- I thought Herschel and Don Sr. thought they were God
- What was that about Mount Rushmore?
- I won’t take the time to look up Fact Check
- Whoops!
- I draw a blank here
- Not even on Fifth Avenue?
- Ho ho ho ho hee hee hee…
- Whoo! National secrets, anyone?
- Does false witness reFer to lying? Oh Dear…
- … Not even power, money and fame?
Excuse me for making fun of such a deadly situation.
Clarice Lispector
” Não me lembro mais qual foi nossa começo. Sei que não começamos pelo começo. Já era amor antes de ser.
Clarice Lispector
Marii Freire
https://Pensamentos.me/VEM comigo!
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Santarém, Pá 29 de outubro de 2022

Editorial: The attack on Paul Pelosi is an attack on democracy – Los Angeles Times
Yes, occasional political violence across the ideological spectrum is as old as America itself. What’s different now is the frequency. In the five years after Trump was elected president in 2016, recorded threats against members of Congress rose more than tenfold, to 9,625 in 2021, according to a New York Times analysis of figures from the Capitol Police.
On Friday, a man pleaded guilty to threatening to kill Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Dublin) and his staff. Earlier this summer, a man tried to stab New York gubernatorial candidate Lee Zeldin, a Republican congressman, during a July campaign event, and an armed man was arrested on suspicion of threatening to kill Democratic Rep. Pramila Jayapal outside her Seattle home.
A Simi Valley man was arrested near the Maryland home of Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh in June after he flew across the country with a black tactical vest, a Glock 17 pistol and, according to authorities, a plan to harm the Supreme Court justice. In August, two men were convicted of conspiring to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in a plot that involved obtaining a bomb to blow up a bridge and thwart police.
And in May, two Northern California men pleaded guilty to plotting to blow up the state Democratic Party’s headquarters in Sacramento in a scheme prosecutors described as politically motivated by Trump’s 2020 loss.
Republicans who believe that the 2020 election was stolen from Trump and that Joe Biden is an illegitimate president are “substantially more likely” than other Americans to believe that violence is justified to advance political objectives, according to a new study by the UC Davis Violence Prevention Research Program.
Source: Editorial: The attack on Paul Pelosi is an attack on democracy – Los Angeles Times
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