The Soul of a New Machine: From Microcode to Machine Consciousness
Exploring the parallels between Data General's microcode heroics and today's AI revolution, questioning what defines consciousness in both humans and machines.
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Good Vibrations: Vibe Coding as the Next Layer of Abstraction
Explore how AI-powered 'vibe coding' fits into the historical progression of programming abstractions and why it represents the natural evolution of software development.
Snake Oil Versus Vision: The Perils of Technological Pessimism
Examine how dystopian tech predictions consistently fail while protopian thinking accurately maps our future, from 1990s internet debates to today's AI discourse.
Nodes All the Way Down
Explore how information theory reveals fundamental patterns that connect everything from neural networks to cosmic structures, suggesting a universe built on interconnected nodes.
Vibe Coding Needs Larry Wall's Three Virtues More Than Perl Did
The Perl book lists three virtues of a programmer that look like vices. Once the machine does the typing, you have to supply them yourself.
The Magic of Discovery: Early Computing Memories
A personal reflection on encountering computers for the first time in the 1970s and the lasting impact of those early moments of technological wonder.
Latent Space Invaders
How the hidden dimensions of AI systems mirror human cognition. Discover the multidimensional mathematical spaces where machine understanding happens—and why they matter for both silicon and carbon mi
NLP vs. NLP
Explore the striking contrast between Neuro-Linguistic Programming and Natural Language Processing—two fields sharing an acronym but diverging wildly in methods, evidence, and results.
The Algorithmic Taboo: AI's Collision Course with Society's Sacred Cows
An exploration of how AI technologies are inevitably confronting our most sensitive social domains, from politics and religion to healthcare and wealth distribution.
The Last Programming Language I'll Ever Learn
After 40 years and dozens of programming languages, I haven't written a single line of code this year. Not because I've retired, but because I've learned my final language: English.