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Awesome work. It's great to have a FOSS alternative while (Embarcadero) Delphi gets worse with every new release.

"Turing's Cathedral" by George Dyson is also great. It's a kind of broad biography of all the great minds that started the computer age.

Maybe I'm imagining things, but every HN thread about a new AI model seems to follow the same pattern, has the same arguments and talking points. The only difference is the version numbers of the AI models mentioned.

Ted Nelson apparently predicted it as early as 1965. In his autobiography Possiplex there is a chapter named "My Box of Crayons, 1965", where he shows some of his early sketches, one of which looks just like any ad-infested blogspam website from today. He used it in an ACM presentation, but I can't find it on the web.

> For instance, I am wondering what exactly you are responding to with this comment

It's an ad for their website.

There is a game on Steam called "Turing Complete". It teaches you how to build a fully functional computer from scratch. I recommend you play this game while you work through the theory.

Not just him, but all the people in his cultural sphere. I've been to a Banksy exhibition, and it also had videos of "critics" commenting on his work. The overtone was how inspiring and brave it is to protest things like war and injustice nowadays in a western country. It's repulsive how ignorant these people are towards their own privilege, while taking the moral high ground and lecturing others.

And of course there was a fucking gift shop at the end.

Yeah, I don't understand why it has to be agile XOR waterfall. Agile development simply doesn't work in projects that have so many externally imposed constraints that there is barely any flexibility left.

Why would someone go to a place in an actual conflict zone that is under attack by actual drones right now to flee from hypothetical drones in a hypothetical conflict?

The primary goal of these efforts is to control communication and the flow of ideas. Information is a control mechanism, since we act on what we believe.

In history we had four media revolutions (printing press, radio, television, Internet), each greatly disrupting and reshaping society. This is the fifth (social media and maybe AI).

All these revolutions had the same theme: increased reach of information, increased speed of transmission, increased density (information amount per unit of time), and centralization of information sources. Now we seem to reach the limits of change. No more reach, since our information networks span the entire globe. No more speed, since transmission times are close to how fast we can perceive things. The only things left to change are even more centralization and tighter feedback loops (changing the information based on how the recipient reacts).

Given all that, this media revolution might be the last one, so there is a gold rush among the elites to come out on top.

Maybe this is the first step towards the Big Beautiful Bailout when the AI bubble inevitably pops.

Yup, same for DuckDuckGo.

Pretty impressive!