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Office Swag WIN: The Steampunk Mac


Not only is it steampunk, it’s early ’90s. Currently on display at The Mac Store in Eugene, Oregon, this mod is a combination 1991 Mac and 114-year-old Remington typewriter. Its features are a mix of 90s and 19th-century, too: the mouse is made from a Morse telegraph key, while the modem is 56k and the operating system is Mac OS 7.5, complete with a word processor, calculator, spreadsheet program, flight simulator, and Tetris

 

Rise of the Machines


MIT released a report in which they observed that a computer got better at playing the video game Civilization by reading the manual. After comprehending the actual language of the written advice meant for human players, the computer’s rate of victory jumped from 46% to 79%. the system was able to reproduce 80 percent of the steps that a human reading the same instructions would execute