[Info-vax] Some of what I'm reading...

[johnwallace4 at yahoo.co.uk]

On Sunday, 20 May 2018 14:28:03 UTC+1, IanD  wrote:
> On Sunday, May 13, 2018 at 6:35:19 AM UTC+10, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
> > FWIW...    Some interesting topics, and some topics related to recent 
> > discussions here in the comp.os.vms newsgroup.   Some relevant to 
> > OpenVMS.  Some not.
> > 
> > An overview of some of open-source projects from a few years ago — 
> > includes an overview of LLVM, which is being used by VSI for OpenVMS
> > 	http://www.aosabook.org/en/index.html
> > 
> > Work toward securing the boot path, akin to the existing work on x86-64 
> > and on Arm.
> > 	https://www.securerf.com/path-secure-boot-solution-risc-v/
> > 
> > Approaches toward securing a key component of the system security 
> > environment...
> >  
> > https://ronny.chevalier.io/files/coprocessor-based-behavior-monitoring-acsac-chevalier-2017.pdf 
> > 
> > 
> > Approaches toward secure storage of sensitive information, and using 
> > hardware and software features that OpenVMS lacks support for...
> >  
> > https://developer.apple.com/documentation/security/certificate_key_and_trust_services/keys/storing_keys_in_the_secure_enclave 
> > 
> > 
> > Here's Rowhammer in the browser...
> > 	https://www.vusec.net/projects/glitch/
> > 
> > RISC-V development boards...
> > 	https://www.sifive.com
> > 
> > On younger folks and learning about computers and programming and 
> > algorithms.  These folks are rather past that earlier discussion of 
> > which languages folks might first learn computing with, though...
> > 	http://aiweirdness.com/post/173797162852/ai-scream-for-ice-cream
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > -- 
> > Pure Personal Opinion | HoffmanLabs LLC
> 
> These are good :-)
> 
> Bit hard for VMS to support the secure key store when it's a function of the Apple chip. Didn't the Vax and Alpha have special parts to them that VMS exploited, although not security related. We are moving to commodity hardware I guess we have to put up with it's limitations?
> 
> Those kids who were learning about ai through neural nets use python to get at the cool stuff underneath which is tensorflow
> 
> For something similar although more comprehensive than poetry writing is the Wolfram Language
> 
> This video pretty much depicts what I think kids should be learning who need to churn out widgets (the majority of programmers. Those who do things like compiler design or OS design or real time are not under this model but I wonder if one day they could be)
> 
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_P9HqHVPeik (and this is 4 years ago)
> 
> It's still being enhanced today. The latest additions are around quantum computing

The link goes to a 2014 video of Stephen Wolfram talking 
about The Wolfram Language. If you know (of) Mathematica
you may already be aware of this stuff. If you know that
a free (zero cost) version of Mathematica ships with the
Raspberry Pi flavour of Debian you may already be aware
of this stuff. 

Wolfram/Mathematica has been around a few decades, but 
not quite as many as VMS. For some of those decades, 
VMS was a supported platform for Mathematica.

Further reading (which may be more helpful than YouTube
or may not; one size does not fit all) can be found via:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfram_Mathematica

I defocused from the video once I realised what it 
was, but left it running. I refocused on it when 
Device Connection was mentioned.

As many readers will know, device connection in a 
usable portable generic way would be great, wouldn't
it. And then I saw a Lytro camera and defocused again,
though it did prompt me to do a "where are they now", 
which reveals that Lytro ceased trading earlier this 
year:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lytro


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