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Mechanical programming in ancient times

How long has programming been around? Did programming only begin with the arrival of the electronic computer? Or does programming have an…

Jan 11, 2023

Uit het hoofd, een geschiedenis van de menselijke intelligentie.

Jan 11, 2023

Kris Merckx

Duitsland heeft ze niet meer alle vijf

Of hoe de Verenigde Staten de wereldleider werden op het vlak van technologie en wetenschap

Jun 7

Duitsland heeft ze niet meer alle vijf

Jun 7

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Chapter 3: The historical fabric

“Others say that the threads of destiny are woven like a garment and one’s destiny is intertwined with that of many others. We are all…

May 30

Chapter 3: The historical fabric

May 30

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Chapter 2: Timelines, eternal cycles, waves and patterns, chaos or cliodynamics?

Read the previous article: https://medium.com/@krismerckx/history-is-about-dates-not-dates-981d351aa11c

May 29

Chapter 2: Timelines, eternal cycles, waves and patterns, chaos or cliodynamics?

May 29

Kris Merckx

Chapter 1: History is about data, not dates

I myself stood in front of the classroom as a history teacher for more than 20 years. Even though political history was never really my…

May 29

Chapter 1: History is about data, not dates

May 29

Kris Merckx

Sunday rest

As with the Egyptians, the Roman month was divided into three, albeit unequal parts. Each month had three main starting days:

May 29

Sunday rest

May 29

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Simon, The Mechanical Brain

The American computer scientist Edmund C. Berkeley (1909–1988) popularised the image of the cognitive computer with his 1949 book Giant…

May 28

Simon, The Mechanical Brain

May 28

Kris Merckx

Natural replicators, memes, memory devices and cultural transmission

Part 1

May 28

Natural replicators, memes, memory devices and cultural transmission

May 28

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Sensory Perception

Part 1

May 28

Sensory Perception

May 28

Kris Merckx

Animal and Swarm Intelligence

Smart animal behaviour

May 28

Animal and Swarm Intelligence

May 28

Kris Merckx

Kris Merckx

Historian, web developer, animated film producer, multimedia, author (history, information technology), lecturer at the University of Applied Sciences, Leuven.

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