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How much of this is at all related to newer Gen AI abilities and LLMs, vs just more/better "traditional" ML?

Do have have any links handy to those test results?

Honest question: Does the kid really want learn via dealing with a book? Programming has such a wonderful virtuous feelback look built in, seems a shame to get in the way of that. …

You might enjoy this documentary from Telluride Film Festival last year https://www.imdb.com/title/tt21956346/

NeXT wasn't bought until late 1996. That didnt kill the RISC project, what happened is the company dropped all hardware and became software-only (primarily on top of x86 boxes, but…

The original OS absolutely had shared libraries - the whole environment was so RAM-constrained that it was essential. (source - I was part of the early SW eng team). In fact, my me…

I feel like the Isaacson bio is fairly accurate factually on that time, from what I knew as a senior SW Eng at NeXT/Apple. It was a huge course change, eventually pushed through th…

I strongly disagree. Amelio's Macworld 1997 keynote was a legendary failure, just a shocking public show of incompetence. He built zero confidence in anyone joining from NeXT. His …

Gifted kids are all really different in their specific strengths. That said, for one with a well-expressed nerd gene, we started at age 6. I would start with an iPad app (slightly …

My son and I got a lot out of a similar iPad app called Tynker, which we both ended up liking better than Scratch, which he used at school. Tynker has a physics engine, which opens…

We've not had a big problem getting candidate streams of people who want to work with Ruby. In a way I don't mind having an implicit filter against people who only want to work wit…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_conjunction gives the exact time as 21 December 2020, 13:22:00 UTC, or 5:22 AM PST. In SF, the planets will set around 7:10 PM, the sun sets abo…

This might work for some people, but for me it would have been a worthless and tragically misleading signal. I got modest-at-best enjoyment from being around kids before I had one,…

Aren't most of those shenanigans done early in the VM's lifespan (as Rails boots, actions are called the first time,...), after which the world would be stable, and JIT-related cac…

I was leading the AppKit group at NeXT at the time, and "NS" definitely came before the Sun relationship, referring to NextStep (or NeXTSTEP, the spelling changed every release). I…