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It is easy to forget that many technology juggernauts weren’t always the only game in town. Ethernet seems ubiquitous today, but it had to fight past several competing standards. VHS and Blu-…

We get it. We also watched Star Trek and thought how cool it would be to talk to our computer. From Kirk setting a self-destruct sequence, to Scotty talking into a mouse, or Picard ordering Earl Gr…

In 1997 a set of DEC tapes were provided by Dennis Ritchie, as historical artifacts for those interested in the gestation of the UNIX operating system. The resulting archive files have recently bee…

Summary: Human populations will start to decrease globally in a few more decades. Thereafter fewer and few humans will be alive to contribute labor and to consume what is made. However at the same historical moment as this decrease, we … Continue reading →

The Forge Laboratory is a communications research lab developing software, standards and architecture for open-source human-based computation networks, but what does that mean?

Consider the emerging expressions of human-AI interactions and what that means for our interpretation of AGI. And lots of other notions as every week.

If you go to secondary school in Germany for the last 2 years you have to pick a bunch of specializations, subjects you want to focus on to a degree. You spend more time on these subjects and your final grade is strongly influenced by your results in those courses. When I picked math as […]

Generative AI is not a calculator. Thinking of it that way misses the point.

The hype around serverless computing has died down, and now we can evaluate it more clearly.

Chapter 1: Introduction

Enterprises are finally discovering that serverless computing is not a universal remedy. A mix of serverless and traditional architectures is almost always a better approach.

Posted on Wednesday 19 Feb 2025. 1,844 words, 10 links. By Matt Webb.

Writing at the intersection of technology, democracy, and society by Ben Werdmuller

A Practical Guide to Unlocking the Competitive Potential of AI

A few years before USB took over the world of peripherals, another upstart standard aimed to do the same thing. And I’m not talking about FireWire.

Hybrid non-statistical and statistical AI implementations of STMs are adept at generating real-world simulations and synthetic data.

Understanding the technology, business, policies, and people of Apis.

How hard can it be to write a simple four-function calculator program? After all, computers are good at math, and making a calculator isn’t exactly blazing a new trail, right? But [Chad Nause…

Actor, released by The Whitewater Group, Inc. and later Genesis Development Systems, is an object oriented programming language and environment similar to Smalltalk. It is a completely Windows-native environment, and was among the early applications written for Windows. Actor 2 ran under Microsoft Windows 2, and Actor 1.0 runs under Windows 1.

Posted on Tuesday 11 Feb 2025. 2,995 words, 24 links. By Matt Webb.

Design, deploy, and grow feeds of any complexity on Bluesky with Graze.social.

You just haven't noticed yet, says journalist Matt Muir