Post #1396743
2026-02-18 22:30 UTC
@cdegroot
Congratulations and thanks! I’m enjoying the epub edition from Lulu:
“People writing Lisp code to do old-style AI are engaged in a creative act of discovery, an attempt to understand… To discover requires a different sort of language, and it requires a different approach, captured well by the writer Joan Didion:
I write entirely to find out what I’m thinking, what I’m looking at, what I see and what it means.
–Joan Didion, “Why I Write”
Richard P. Gabriel
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@weekend_editor@mathstodon.xyz 2026-02-18 22:35
@Roundtrip @cdegroot This is much the same as the way Michel de Montaigne wrote his famous essays in 16th century France: to try out his thoughts, from the French word essayer, "to try". Thus was born the literary form of the essay, much to the chagrin of secondary school students everywhere. But he was the ur-blogger, and is one of my heroes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_de_Montaigne