Computer #programming is, at its core, creative. If you’ve lost your spark, try checking out one of Daniel Temkin’s 44 esoteric coding languages. It’s not about making sense, it’s about stretching the limits of what a programming language can be, and what a community of programmers can do together. https://spectrum.ieee.org/esoteric-programming-languages-daniel-temkin?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Mastodon-Daily-Pipeline

AI lies to us. That’s why Jaime Fernández Fisac created a “bullshit index” to track how and why AI is misleading its users. https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-misinformation-llm-bullshit?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Mastodon-Daily-Pipeline

A new solar panel is here that concentrates the sun’s light onto smaller areas. It extracted about 50 percent more power than previous designs. It’s also cheaper, using less than one-thousandth of the expensive semiconductor materials required by normal panels. https://spectrum.ieee.org/solar-panels-micro-cpv?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Mastodon-Daily-Pipeline