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BuyArtificial Intelligence from Bookshop.org(with kickback)(without kickback) One of the better books I read in college was Artificial Intelligence: The Very Idea (1985) by philosopher John Haugeland. One of the sections I found most...
The high schooler who developed everyone’s forums and guestbooks in 1996 didn’t really think about security when he was building all that software. But Matt’s Script Archive was more than exploits.
A couple of days ago I recounted a common complaint: I keep seeing programmers say how angry it makes them that people are willing to write detailed CLAUDE.md and PROJECT.md files for Claude to use, but they weren't willing to write them...
A number of years ago I wondered how many movies I had seen. The only way I could think of finding out was just to make a list. This I did as best I could. (It turned out to be around 700.) I found, though, that I could not include all...
I recently posted an article about the 2013 Philadelphia Traffic Court fiasco, in which most of the Traffic Court judges were convicted of accepting bribes: According to the indictment, Perri accepted free auto services, towing,...
In a recent article about John Haugeland's rejection of micro-worlds I claimed: as a “Large Language Model”, Claude necessarily includes a model of the world in general Nobody has objected to this remark, but I would like to expand on...
Our company is going to a convention later this month, and they will have a booth with big TV screens showing statistics that update in real time. My job is to write the backend server that delivers the statistics. I read over the...
Bo Diddley's cover of "Sixteen Tons" sounds very much like one of my favorites, "Can't Judge A Book By Its Cover". It's interesting to compare. Thinking on that it suddenly occured to me that his name might have been a play on “diddley...
Standishgate Market Place Standishgate Standishgate Summer in Wigan seems to be able to take people by surprise, and even after a few days, many dress as though it is just an illusion and not anything like as warm as it really is. I...
Every Friday night around 5PM, before I’m about to make our pizza night martinis, I turn on KUTX and listen to “Old School Dance Party” — the “Happy Feet Dance Party with ever-lovin’ John E. Dee playing the music that got you in...
Waterfall in Summer Mountains, Nakabayashi Chikuto, hanging scroll, ink and color on silk, 50 x 17 inches (126 x 43 cm), in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. 19th century (Edo period) Japanese artist Nakabayashi Chikuto...
One over, that is. It’s another extremely important and major milestone for Mrs. Kwakk Wakk’s Comics Research Site: The number of digits in the page count has increased! One more digit! Whoho! Look at how puny the number was just a day...
This post is for developers who want to learn about the different planning approaches to take during agentic software development.