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What a comprehensive, well-written article. Well done! The author traces the evolution of web technology from Notepad-edited HTML to today. My biggest difference with the author is that he is optimist…

I really like this author's summary of the 1983 Bainbridge paper about industrial automation. I have often wondered how to apply those insights to AI agents, but I was never able to summarize it …

For others who might be as confused as me: GNU Unifont is a bitmap font. It provides a fixed glyph for every code point in the BMP. It also covers additional code points in other planes. I am guessing…

Your points and examples are valid. However, when you say: > I wouldn’t agree at all that wealthy people are inherently more resilient to stress I beg to differ. I think the OP is talking about gro…

And the pendulum swings back toward representation. It is becoming clear that the LLM approach is not adequate to reach what John McCarthy called human-level intelligence: Between us and human-level …

> That’s not justice. That’s legal extortion. If you made it your business to publish a newsletter containing copied NYT articles, then wouldn't they have the right to go after you and discove…

> Frontier models are all profitable. This is an extraordinary claim and needs extraordinary proof. LLMs are raising lots of investor money, but that's a completely different thing from being …

Excellent compendium! Thanks for writing this up. Suggestion: separate out the fiction writing advice from the nonfiction. Today they're mixed together, and their audiences are often non-overlapp…

Smalltalk-80 was also good for graphics programming. Around 1990, I was a graduate student in Prof. Red Whittaker's field robotics group at Carnegie Mellon. In Porter Hall, I was fortunate to hav…