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- 1Los Alamos's early Monte Carlo simulations on ENIAC▼Los Alamos bets on ENIAC: Nuclear Monte Carlo simulations, 1947–1948 (2014) [pdf]
A 2014 paper recounts how Los Alamos scientists used the ENIAC computer in 1947–1948 to run Monte Carlo simulations for nuclear weapons research, an early landmark in scientific computing. The work, associated with figures like Nicholas Metropolis and Stanislaw Ulam, is drawing renewed interest among computing history enthusiasts online.
- 2Fan-made AI-themed song pits Eniac against Caine▼AI Bros (Eniac vs Caine Theme Song)【THE AMAZING DIGITAL CIRCUS FAN 3D MUSIC VIDEO】
A new fan-made 3D music video themed around The Amazing Digital Circus is drawing big attention, built around a song called 'AI Bros' that frames a rivalry between Eniac and the show's ringmaster character Caine. The animated musical has racked up well over a million likes, reflecting the fandom's appetite for character-driven songs and animated battles between its artificial-intelligence figures.
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A 2011 essay on the programming of the ENIAC, one of the first electronic general-purpose computers, is recirculating among readers. The piece recounts how the machine's original programmers, a team of women mathematicians, had to physically configure the ENIAC's cables and switches to run calculations, since it had no stored program in the modern sense. Readers are discussing the history of early computing and the long-overlooked contributions of the first programmers.
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A Columbia University computing history page on programming the ENIAC has drawn renewed attention. The 2011 piece recounts how the machine, one of the earliest electronic general-purpose computers built at the University of Pennsylvania in the 1940s, was programmed by hand-switching cables and setting switches, work famously carried out by six women mathematicians. Readers are revisiting the story as an early milestone in computing and a notable moment in the history of women in technology.
- 5APPOFENIACS: A Film About Technology and Human Behavior●APPOFENIACS - A Technology Movie about Human Behavior
A film titled APPOFENIACS, described as a technology movie about human behavior, is surfacing on film news sites. Details about its plot, cast, and release remain sparse, with coverage so far limited to its description as an examination of how people interact with technology.
- 6Columbia retrospective revisits how the ENIAC was programmed●Programming the ENIAC(2011) https://www.columbia.edu/cu/computinghistory/eniac.html # HackerNews # Tech # History
A 2011 essay from Columbia University's computing history archive on programming the ENIAC is circulating again among tech readers. The piece recounts how the pioneering electronic computer, completed in the 1940s, was programmed by physically rewiring and configuring its components rather than by stored software. Readers are sharing it as a reminder of how radically programming has changed since the earliest days of modern computing.
- 7Los Alamos Bets on Eniac: Nuclear Monte Carlo Simulations, 1947–1948●Los Alamos Bets on Eniac: Nuclear Monte Carlo Simulations, 1947–1948 [pdf]
A newly circulated paper recounts how Los Alamos scientists turned to the Eniac in 1947–1948 to run some of the earliest Monte Carlo simulations, using the pioneering computer to model nuclear processes through random sampling. The episode is widely seen as a founding moment of computational science, showing how wartime computing hardware was repurposed for peacetime physics research and helped establish a technique now used across finance, engineering and beyond.