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The Thinking Machine Chronicles #0013: The Baby That Changed Everything: The First Stored-Program Computer Runs
On 21 June 1948, a small machine in a converted stable at the University of Manchester ran 17 instructions and found the highest factor of 262,144. It took 52 minutes. It was the first time in history that a computer executed a program stored in its own memory: and everything that followed descends from that moment.
July 17, 2026
11 min read
The Thinking Machine Chronicles #0012: A Mathematical Theory of Communication: Shannon Invents Information Theory
In July 1948, Claude Shannon published a paper in the Bell System Technical Journal that answered three questions no one had previously asked with precision: what is information, how much can a channel carry, and can errors be corrected without bound? Every digital communication system ever built rests on his answers.
July 8, 2026
12 min read
The Thinking Machine Chronicles #0011: The Science of Control: Norbert Wiener and Cybernetics
In 1948, Norbert Wiener proposed that feedback, communication, and control formed a single unified science applicable equally to machines and living organisms. Cybernetics would reshape computing, neuroscience, cognitive science, and ultimately the theory of intelligent machines.
June 23, 2026
12 min read
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TMC #0013: Manchester Baby: SSEM Stored-Program Simulator
A pure-Python simulator of the 1948 Small-Scale Experimental Machine (SSEM): all 7 original instructions, 32-word memory, and the first program ever run on a stored-program computer: finding the highest factor of 2^18.
July 17, 2026
TMC #0012: Information Theory: Shannon Entropy & Channel Capacity
A pure-Python implementation of Claude Shannon's 1948 information theory: Shannon entropy, mutual information, Shannon-Hartley channel capacity, BSC capacity, and optimal Huffman source coding.
July 8, 2026
TMC #0011: Cybernetics: Feedback Control & Wiener Predictor
A pure-Python simulation of Norbert Wiener's cybernetics (1948): PID feedback control of a thermal plant, open-loop vs closed-loop comparison, and a causal Wiener-Hopf optimal predictor on a random walk.
June 23, 2026
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Weekly Insights: Week 28, Jul 6–Jul 12, 2026
Hidden gems in Frontend, Backend, and AI from this week's tech world.
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