An Australian #computer scientist who claimed he invented bitcoin lied "extensively and repeatedly" and forged documents "on a grand scale" to support his false claim, a judge at #London's High #Court ruled on Monday.
Have you ever found trustworthy people in the #crypto swamp?
#fail #currency #money #finance #cryptocurrency #technology #problem #news #justice #btc #bitcoins
https://www.bitchute.com/video/k1kL5Fv5njcv/
#JIM-LEE interviews Dr.SHIVA™ #Geoengineering & #'Climate Change “ #Science”
#JIMLEE #interview s Dr.SHIVA™ Geoengineering & Climate Change “Science”
Dr. #SHIVA Ayyadurai, MIT PhD, the #inventor of #email, is a scientist, inventor, entrepreneur, and Fulbright Scholar who holds 4 degrees from MIT including his PhD in Biological Engineering. He started 7 successful high-tech companies providing ...
From https://jimhumble.co/special-announcement/:
Special Announcement
September 5, 2023 @12am ET
It is with deep emotions that we announce the passing of #JimHumble, a #remarkable #inventor, #author and #humanitarian, #who passed on peacefully on September 1, #2023 at the age of #90.
Jim Humble was born on December 27, 1932 in the US State of Alabama. He led an interesting life that was full of challenges and contributions to mankind that continue to impact millions around the world. He lived a very humble life that matches his name—he was always ready to give to those in need.
In his early years he was involved in engineering which he carried through to his mid-life as an expert in mining. His creative mind led to various inventions and books on the topic. In 1996, his mining career took an unexpected turn toward the world of health when a team of men working on his expedition came down with malaria. All he had with him at the time were some water treatment drops that he offered to the sick men. To everyone’s surprise, they quickly improved after taking a few drops.
This experience inspired Jim to research how one of the world’s greatest plagues could so easily be stopped. He discovered that the water treatment drops he used in the jungle was sodium chlorite and that when taken internally in very small amounts would convert to just enough chlorine dioxide to kill malaria parasites. During the months that followed, in his travels through the jungle, he helped many others recover from malaria and other illnesses. When Jim himself came down with a bad case of malaria, he went into the city to be tested, wanting to document the fact that he indeed had malaria. Sure enough he was malaria positive and he promptly took his own drops. In a few short hours, after feeling much better, he took a second test which read malaria negative. Jim walked out of the clinic, stood on the sidewalk, and said to himself, “I’ve got to take this to the world.” And so, his greatest journey began.
He nicknamed his discovery #MMS (chlorine dioxide) and wrote numerous books on the subject that have been translated into many languages.
Jim Humble’s legacy is that he had the will and the determination to freely give his discovery to the world, and as a result, millions of lives have been changed. Through his efforts many health uses of chlorine dioxide have been brought to light worldwide.
Jim was deeply burdened with the current plight of mankind and the blatant manifestation of evil in the world. He was a firm believer in the spiritual realm, and acknowledged that there were powers that must be defeated. He has now transitioned to the other side, to join in the fight for freedom from a new vantage point.
Jim’s wish and wise counsel for others through the years has always been:
Take your maintenance dose of chlorine dioxide (MMS) daily.
Do some daily jumps to strengthen your bones.
Always do the right thing.
And, help one another.
Before his passing, he was insistent that we must “Be careful!”. He said, “Be careful, because if you aren’t you might screw up. Be careful about what’s happening around you. You gotta be careful both physically and spiritually, so you’ll be ok. Like soldiers we have to always be on watch.”
We are not saying goodbye to our dear Jim, because we know that he lives on—there are no “Goodbye’s…” Only, “’Til we meet again…” In recent years his closing words in interviews were most often, “Get my book, read it, learn about MMS (chlorine dioxide), tell your friends, tell other people, and use MMS (chlorine dioxide) for maintenance.”
If you wish to pay tribute to his great man… join us in endeavoring to do as he taught and lived—spread the word about Jim’s incredible discovery—it may save lives!
Respectful public comments can be left below where you can share your experiences, thoughts, and feelings about Jim and his life’s work:
♲ nowisthetime - 2022-11-10 09:08:05 GMT
https://youtube.com/watch?v=5UVakruMUXM
#Dr. Robert #Malone – an #inventor of #mRNA who has disavowed the #technology
– discusses Mattias Desmet's " #MassFormation Psychosis" (AKA "Mass Delusional Psychosis") as an explanation for the bizarre behavior of seemingly intelligent people throughout the pandemic panic, which saw families and friends split apart based on vaccination status, mask mandates & lockdowns.
FULL EPISODE: drdrew.com/8312022
When Dr. Malone speaks of this phenomenon, "tears are rolling down people's faces," he says. "It touches on something. For those of us that have been #traumatized by what we've seen happen in our culture and with our former friends and colleagues that have become alienated... there is a substantial psychological underpinning that we've all experienced here."Some of it, Dr. Malone says, "involves the #weaponization of #information via the #media."
https://youtube.com/watch?v=5UVakruMUXM
– discusses Mattias Desmet's " #MassFormation Psychosis" (AKA "Mass Delusional Psychosis") as an explanation for the bizarre behavior of seemingly intelligent people throughout the pandemic panic, which saw families and friends split apart based on vaccination status, mask mandates & lockdowns.
FULL EPISODE: drdrew.com/8312022
When Dr. Malone speaks of this phenomenon, "tears are rolling down people's faces," he says. "It touches on something. For those of us that have been #traumatized by what we've seen happen in our culture and with our former friends and colleagues that have become alienated... there is a substantial psychological underpinning that we've all experienced here."
Some of it, Dr. Malone says, "involves the #weaponization of #information via the #media."
Theses cars would/could have been everywhere. But “Climate change” is a REAL problem
Every year on #April #22, #Earth #Day marks the #anniversary of the #birth of the modern #environmental #movement in 1970. We are honoring Earth Day with the #futurist #Buckminster #Fuller (1895-1983), an American #architect, #systems #theorist, #author, #designer, #inventor and #philosopher. Fuller believed human societies would soon rely mainly on #renewable #sources of #energy, such as #solar- and #wind-derived #electricity.
Fuller developed numerous inventions, mainly architectural designs, and popularized the widely known #geodesic #dome; #carbon #molecules known as fullerenes were later named by scientists for their structural and mathematical resemblance to geodesic #spheres.
I just copied this from *https://karsh.org/buckminster-fuller-2/ :)
Let's see what they think when I send them a #patent application on behalf of a cockroach in my bath, insisting that this #cockroach is an #inventor that should be recognised by #USPTO https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=400b03df-fc98-405d-983c-1d6cd1a4b37f
Since 1935, Berlin engineer Konrad Zuse has spent his entire career developing a series of automatic calculators, the first of their kind in the world: the Z1, Z2, Z3, S1, S2, and Z4. He accomplished this with a motley group of engineers, technicians, and mathematicians who were operating against all odds. With all the hardships and shortages of war and the indifference of their peers, the fact that they succeeded at all is a testament to their dedication and resourcefulness. And with the end of the war, more hardships have been piling on.
Two years ago, during the Battle of Berlin, bombers completely destroyed the Zuse family home and adjacent workshops on the Methfesselstraße, where they preformed research and fabrication. All of the calculators, engineering drawings, and notes were lost in the rubble, save for the new Z4 nearing completion across the canal in another workshop on Oranienstraße. In the midst of all this, Zuse married in January of this year, but was immediately plunged into another crisis when the largest Allied air raid of the war destroyed the Oranienstraße workshop in February. They managed to rescue the Z4 from the basement, and miraculously arranged for it to be shipped out of the Berlin. Zuse, his family, and colleagues followed soon thereafter. Here and there along the escape route, they managed to complete the final assembly and testing of the Z4 -- even giving a demonstration to the Aerodynamics Research Institute in Göttingen.
On arrival here in the Bavarian Alps, Zuse found a ragtag collection of refugees, including Dr Werner Von Braun and a team of 100 rocket scientists from Peenemünde. While everyone here is struggling just to stay alive and find food and shelter, Zuse is further worried with keeping his invention safe from prying eyes. Tensions have risen further upon circulation of a rumor that an SS leader, after three bottles of Cognac, let slip that his troops aren't here to protect the scientists but to kill them all if the Americans or French approach.
In the midst of all this madness, Zuse and his wife Gisela welcomed a baby boy, and have taken up residence in a Hinterstein farmhouse. Zuse spends his time working on something called a Plankalkül , explaining that it is a mathematical language to allow people to communicate with these new machines. His other hobby is making woodblocks of the local scenery, and he plans to start a company to sell his devices once the economy recovers. There is no doubt that Konrad Zuse will soon be famous and known around the world as the father of automatic computers.
It was 80 years ago that Konrad Zuse demonstrated his model Z3, an appropriate occasion to look back at his life and accomplishments. But despite the musings of our imaginary correspondent above, most people outside of computer history buffs have never heard of Konrad Zuse. How is it that someone created and built the world's first programmable computer and yet is only a footnote in history?
Konrad Zuse had trouble finding his niche in life. As a young teen he seemed destined to become an engineer based on his interests and skills, always tinkering with erector sets and inventing gadgets. But he was also a talented sketch artist, photographer, and enjoyed acting in skits and plays. During his time at the Technical University of Berlin, he changed majors twice. Initially put off by the rigid conformity of mechanical engineering, he switched to architecture, only to find it equally boring. He finally settled on civil engineering, which struck the right balance between engineer and artist.
Zuse in 1935
After completing his studies in 1935, his first job was at the Henschel Airplane Works just outside of Berlin. But he quit after only a few months, turning his attention to something he had been pondering for some time -- could he build a machine to automate those boring and repetitious engineering calculations?
Zuse was working in almost complete isolation from others in the nascent field of computing. And initially, at least, he wasn't so much focused on a general purpose computer as we think of it today. His goal was to make an automated mechanical adding machine of sorts, to handle the tedious calculations such as those required in static stress analyses. Early on, he made a key decision to use binary rather than decimal. He rightly saw that this would greatly simplify the building of such a machine, no matter what the implementation.
You might think that the choice of binary numbers would immediately make relays the most obvious choice. And while he did experiments with relays, they were ruled too unreliable. Today we take for granted the reliability and quality of relays, but Zuse was living in 1930s Germany and operating on a shoestring budget supported by his family and friends. Relays were expensive, and they were designed to switch infrequently, not run continuously at many Hertz. The relays that he could obtain were more often than not discards his friends rescued from the trash at the local telephone exchange. Along with his friend Helmut Schreyer, they also experimented with using of vacuum tubes, but realized that technology would be significantly delayed due to wartime shortages.
Zuse's Mechanical XNOR Gate
So how did he implement a computer without relays or vacuum tubes? It was all mechanical. Zuse devised a clever arrangement of plates, flat bars, and steel pins to make a digital memory store and a floating point binary arithmetic logic unit (ALU).
Print Your Own Z1 Mechanical Logic Gate
This video explains the basic operation of the mechanical adder (don't let the fact that it's in German discourage you from watching it).
If you want to dig into how Zuse implemented memory and an ALU mechanically, check out [fjkraan]'s project explaining the basics and OpenSCAD 3D printer examples you can make yourself:
The memory consisted of 64 each 22-bit words ( 14-bits of mantissa and 8-bits of exponent and sign). The ALU could add, subtract, multiply, and divide. The program instructions were provided on punched tapes, and consisted of only eight operations:
Lu input a decimal numberLd output a decimal numberPr z read from address z into register rPs z store from register r into address zLs1 add two floating point numbers, R1 = R1 + R2Ls2 subtract two floating point numbers, R1 = R1 - R2Lm1 multiply two floating point numbers, R1 = R1 * R2Li1 divide two floating point numbers, R1 = R1 / R2The computer's clock was equivalent to a four-phase CPU clock of modern times. But it was mechanical rather than electrical, and could be driven by either a hand crank or an electric motor. Each clock phase was one of four planar motions -- imagine pushing a square plate a few centimeters North, then West, then South, then East back to the starting point. Each phase performed a basic operation, and fortunately no basic operation took more than three of these cycles.
As hinted to by the instruction set, Zuse also built converters to permit the use of human-friendly decimal numbers for input and output. Paper tape was too rare a commodity at the time, so another solution was needed. They found that blank 35 mm movie film worked just fine, and wrote their programs using a hand-held hole punch.
The Z1 was finished in 1938, but was never very reliable. But it wasn't meant to be a finished product, only a proof-of-concept prototype. Work next began on the Z2, which was planned to test whether relays could would be suitable. Zuse kept the mechanical memory for the Z2, but replaced the ALU with a relay version, but only operating on fixed-point numbers. It was completed and successfully demonstrated in 1938, whereupon Zuse received partial funding to build a successor model.
The Z3 was designed entirely with relays. It was basically an improvement on the Z1, was faster and more reliable. It was delivered and demonstrated on 12 May 1941, and then Zuse began construction of yet another computer, the Z4 mentioned in the introduction. The Z4 expanded on the Z3, adding new features like square root, punch tape output, multiple tape input units, and a conditional branch instruction. Zuse continued to use relays in the ALU, but returned to the mechanical memory because of its greater density. The Z4 was eventually put into full time service and operated from 1950 until 1959.
Analog to Digital Converter to Measure Wing Curvatures
As the Z3 project was underway, a request came from Henschel for help in the production of guided missile wings. Zuse built what are probably the first process control computers, the S1 and S2, and invented an analog to digital converter. These single-purpose computers followed the contour of newly-manufactured wings as a hundred analog-to-digital-equipped rollers measured their curvatures.
The machines would then automatically calculate the required trim for the tail surfaces and ailerons from this data, a task that previously been done by a dozen computers (people, not machines). After performing their jobs around the clock for two years, the factory was destroyed by bombing in 1944, and the S1 and S2 were either destroyed or possibly captured by the Soviets.
If you want to learn more about each model, check out this extensive website describing all the computers and much more. It was made by Konrad Zuse's son who was born in the introduction above, Prof Horst Zuse, who became an electrical engineer, a software engineer, and an expert on computer history.
Zuse and his team were able to switch back and forth between mechanical, relay, and even vacuum tube realizations of the computer components because of Zuse's grasp on the underlying equations at work. He developed his own system of rules and notation, until his former math teacher told him he had reinvented propositional calculus, or Boolean algebra as is more commonly used today. By reducing the computer operations into equations, the design concepts were separated from the physical construction, making it easier to jump back and forth between implementations.
Zuse realized that with the framework, what we would call a computer language today, the computer could do so much more than just solve equations. He had been thinking of such a language since 1939, and in the immediate aftermath of the war, he spent much of his time formalizing what he called Plankalkül, the first high-level programming language for a computer -- in English, it translates as a formal system for planning. Despite Zuse's high hopes, Plankalkül never took off, although some say that elements of it can be found in Algol 58, albeit uncredited.
Zuse made patent applications for many of his inventions, and a number of patents were issued. His patent for the computer itself, would be frustrated. He filed a patent application on 16 Jun 1941. It wasn't until after the war in 1952 that the German Patent Office published his claims. No company in the whole industry objected, except for one -- the Triumph calculator company filed opposition to the patent, later revealed to be backed by IBM. The court case lingered for years, only to ultimately be rejected in 1967 on the grounds that the invention was not worthy of a patent.
The innovation and progressiveness of the object concerned in the main application are not doubted. Yet a patent cannot be granted due to insufficient inventive merit.
In the meantime, Zuse had begun commercializing his own line of computers. There was a false start with IBM, who wanted the patents but wouldn't let Zuse continue development. Remington Rand became an important early client, followed closely by the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zürich who took delivery of the Z4 in 1950. Business grew over the next 15 years, with a series of computers and even a plotter, the Graphomat 64. But by the mid 1960s the company was having financial troubles, and it was acquired by Siemens in 1967.
As with many historical computers that have been destroyed or sold for scrap, there have been several recreations of Zuse's computers built over the years.
Replica of the Z1 Computer
With support from Siemens, Zuse began a project in 1984 to reconstruct the Z1. It was completed in 1989 and is now on display at the German Museum of Technology in Berlin. Prof Raúl Rojas of the Free University of Berlin has written an excellent, in-depth paper on how the Z1 and its reconstruction work. Regarding this project, Zuse once remarked:
Back then, it didn't function very well, and in that regard, this replica is very reliable -- it also doesn't work well.
Z3 Replica by Zuse in 1961
The relay-based Z3 has been reconstructed three times. First, in 1961, Zuse himself built a replica that is still on display in the Deutsches Museum in Munich. Again in 1997, Profs Raúl Rojas and Horst Zuse built a recreation that is now on display Konrad Zuse Museum in Hünfeld, Germany. And most recently, Prof Horst Zuse built an original size reconstruction which was installed at the Konrad Zuse museum in 2010.
Zuse as a LEGO Brick Man
And speaking of replicas, this is a replica of Konrad Zuse himself, in the form of a LEGO brick man, holding a relay storage unit from the Z3 computer.
This month, the German Patent Office wrote about Zuse and had this to say:
Zuse had the misfortune to have made his most important invention in times of war. Otherwise, the practical, entrepreneurial Zuse might be known today not only as a technology pioneer, but also as the founder of a global technology corporation of the stature of Bill Gates.
It does make you wonder why Konrad Zuse isn't well known and why his groundbreaking inventions and computers are often ignored. Whether or not he made the first programmable computer, his contributions were undeniably significant, well ahead of their time, and deserve better recognition. Konrad Zuse's accomplishments are best summarized by Eric Weiss, who wrote Zuse's obituary for the IEEE in 1996 :
Zuse was a man of many talents. He was a persistent, innovative, and extraordinarily creative engineering designer and builder, a mathematical logician, the founder of several successful computing manufacturing businesses, and an impressive artist. His countrymen and the computing world will remember him chiefly for the concepts of the first Z machines but also for his entrepreneurial companies, successfully created and operated, almost without outside help under the most trying conditions.
Below the break is a 1958 television with Zuse (English subtitles are available) and some additional resources about Konrad Zuse.
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Hassan Fathy, born in Alexandria, was a cosmopolitan trilingual professor-engineer-architect, musician, dramatist, and inventor. One of Egypt's most renowned architects. Fathy was recognized with the Aga Khan Award for Architecture Chairman’s Award in 1980.
He designed nearly 160 separate projects, from modest country retreats to fully planned communities with police, fire, and medical services, markets, schools, theatres, and places for worship and recreation. These communities included many functional buildings such as laundry facilities, ovens, and wells.
He utilized ancient design methods and materials, as well as knowledge of the rural Egyptian economic situation with a wide knowledge of ancient architectural and town design techniques. He trained local inhabitants to make their own materials and build their own buildings.
Hassan Fathy developed his own ideas, inculcating traditional Arab styles like the malkhaf (wind catcher), the shukshaykha (lantern dome) and the mashrabeya (wooden lattice screens). He designed complete communities including utilities and services, country retreats, special projects, and homes.
Hassan Fathy had already worked for decades in his beloved Egypt before he designed and built for the homeless community of Gourna, Upper Egypt,: which attracted international acclaim.
The old Gourna village was situated near archeological Pharaonic sites on the western shore of Upper Egypt. The Department of Antiquities commissioned Hassan Fathy to meet the challenge of providing a home for a poor community of 7,000 people. His solution differed drastically, not requiring the machinations of the established building industry of concrete and steel. For New Gourna he utilized natural resources using mud-brick, a signature of adobe architecture, and features of Egyptian architecture such as enclosed courtyards and domed vaulted roofing. He worked with the local people to develop the new village, training them to make the materials to construct their own buildings with. In this way, he was able to provide an environment specific to the inhabitants’ needs and revive decorative techniques that were quickly disappearing with the expansion of the Global Village.
Hassan Fathy's General Principles as Guidelines:
Belief in the primary of human values in architecture.
Importance of a universal rather than a limited approach.
Use of appropriate technology.
Need for socially oriented, cooperative construction techniques.
Essential role of tradition.
Re-establishment of national cultural pride through the act of building.
"How do we go from the architect/constructor system to the architect-owner/builder system? One man cannot build a house, but ten men can build ten houses very easily, even a hundred houses. We need a system that allows the traditional way of cooperation to work in our society. We must subject technology and science to the economy of the poor and penniless. We must add the the aesthetic factor because the cheaper we build the more beauty we should add to respect man." -Hassan Fathy
One of the most outstanding Arab architects of our time, a great inspiration ~