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August 2024

Lecture Friday: Capt. Grace Hopper on Future Possibilities: Data, Hardware, Software, and People (Part One, 1982)

There's a great lecture by Grace Hopper I watched years ago. Well, the NSA has released a much improved version in two parts.

It's well worth the time. She's a pioneer who's understanding of systems both digital and physical are things we still get wrong. So many of the things she raises are only now reemerging as problems we're beginning to talk about. I always come away with something new just about every time I rewatch these.

Plants Produce Ultrasonic Clicks under Stress

https://www.sci.news/biology/plants-ultrasonic-clicks-07895.html

That's so cool! I've obviously not reproduced it, but if it's true, that's such an amazing insight. I wonder what's clicking and what impact those clicks have on things in their vicinity.