History

i often really miss this era of ai.

Shazam could name any song back in 2002, on flip phones, with zero AI. You dialed the number 2580, held your phone up to the speaker, and hu...

Very sorry to hear this news. 😥 I never had the chance to meet Margaret Hamilton, but her contributions to the flight software that got us...

This is true and also why the Spark strategy is playing out well. It's a replay of the OpenGL war SGI started. Nvidia embraced. Microsoft t...

The Economist's @econcallum argues that anyone expecting AI to transform the economy in just 4 years is ignoring a fundamental lesson from h...

21 years ago, the founders of youtube were worried because only 40 videos had been uploaded: https://x.com/denk_tweets/status/20917280075852...

On the eve of The AGI Chronicles (which comes out tomorrow!) I'm publishing an excerpt from "Big Blob of Compute," a 2017 internal research ...

It was an honor to meet Donald Knuth at the Computer History Museum today

Using "think" to describe what an LLM does reminds me of the 16th century, when astronomers didn't really believe in the heliocentric model,...

It is worth a look at the history of cars, planes, pharma, etc and take note of the pace of regulation and the permissiveness of innovation....

I was reflecting on how many random contingencies went into creating the current accelerating AI moment and had Opus 5.5 put together a vide...

Wondering what should I build while I still have unlimited AI tokens. Maybe it’ll be something related to history. I’m really passionate ab...

At the very start of my grad school in 2005, I wrote paper about the original computer hacking/phreaking/BBS scene: hackers were often drive...

A Commodore 64 with a monitor and disk drive cost ~$1,200 in 1982. That's about four thousand dollars in today's money. You don't know how g...

Here's my conversation with Andrew Scull, all about psychiatry, its long history from Freud/Jung to today, including asylums, icepick loboto...

He's right Rockerfeller did it first a century ago https://x.com/i/grok/share/b1a85dadc4944f67b3b3b046a28b767c https://x.com/levelsio/stat...

looking at apple’s leadership page from 2006 (right before iphone) feels like looking at the 1992 chicago bulls roster. just an absurd conc...

America: a 250 year tribute. i made this 5 minute documentary completely orchestrated by opus with a montage of the remastered versions of ...

this book will be considered the definitive chronicle of this strange and important historical moment. I'm very proud of Kevin, and it was s...

Western civilization has collapsed before. But a few scholars preserved the ideas that once made Rome great. They made a backup, and it did...