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Dean Wampler

deanwampler@discuss.systems

<p>The person who&#39;s wrong on the Internet. Meme-worthy. Lurking in the AI Alliance (thealliance.ai). Also pretending to do FP, Scala, Physics, writing books, and conference speaking. Alleged photographer (flickr.com/photos/deanwampler/). IBM Research</p>

Posts

  • Post #2980312

    I&amp;#39;m old enough to have been a software engineer during the web/.com explosion in the 90s. I think about that time vs. this current AI era a lot. I had no doubts about the web being massively successful, despite missteps (pets.com...). I&amp;#39;m not at all convinced about AI yet. We&amp;#39;ll see...

  • Post #2980311

    NANDA is an interesting MIT project working on distributed AI agent technologies. If you are in the Washington DC area, there is a hackathon on Saturday, Feb. 21 at George Mason U. https://luma.com/4pwuq0o4

  • Post #2980310

    Despite all the AI coding assistants, I&amp;#39;m still fastest going to Stack Overflow for answers...

  • Post #2980309

    The whole racist backlash in &amp;quot;some quarters&amp;quot; against Bad Bunny and hispanic culture, in general, is not just bad, it&amp;#39;s clueless and pathetic. Young people have largely embraced music from alternative cultures for a long time, starting with black music in the 20s with Jazz, Rock, Soul, and Hip Hop, up to K-Pop more recently. Probably even earlier...

  • Post #2980308

    I wrote an O&amp;#39;Reilly Radar post about the &amp;quot;PARK&amp;quot; stack for generative AI systems: https://www.oreilly.com/radar/what-is-the-park-stack/

  • Post #2980307

    I have noticed over the years that interest in programming languages comes in waves. In the 80s and early 90s, when object-oriented programming was &amp;quot;hot&amp;quot;, it inspired many new languages and interest in language design ideas. That ended when attention shifted to the new WWW. The 2010&amp;#39;s were a similar &amp;quot;high-water&amp;quot; mark for functional programming and the languages it inspired. Now everyone is focused on AI, of course. Andrew Oram is writing a retrospectiv...

  • Post #2980306

    This is evil. Why would anyone ever help us in the future? https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/world/europe/afghan-refugees-congo-us.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

  • Post #2980305

    Here&amp;#39;s an informative Business Insider article on how SpaceX might enter various indices and the % impact it is likely to have in each one. https://www.businessinsider.com/spacex-ipo-index-investing-etfs-spy-vti-qqq-spcx-stock-2026-5?op=1