"Inventing #ELIZA - How the First #Chatbot Shaped the Future of #AI" is out from #MITPress and it is open access. Link to PDF https://direct.mit.edu/books/book-pdf/2615293/book_9780262052504.pdf
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Yiorgos Adamopoulos
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@dougmerritt@mathstodon.xyz I recently saw a meme: PhD advising == prompt engineering :)
I think as we have more and more tools and we build more and more complex systems (in 1986 I had an 8bit C64) we also need to grow with the capabilities and the possibilites and learn to draw satisfaction from the completion of a goal and not only from the means.
For me it is both about and not about Ithaka (I am highly annoyed about the long way home, given the two big breaks he took; the Cavafy Ithaka is different) https://www.onassis.org/initiatives/cavafy-archive/the-canon/ithaka
I do not know whether I make any sense
About a month ago I had a conversation with a friend about LLMs at work. This is a story I told him then https://managing.blue/2026/06/25/software-calligraphy/
I just returned to an email conversation after 17 years :)
I had to work with meshcore-cli to help a friend with his #meshcore #repeater https://managing.blue/2026/06/07/adventures-with-meshcore-cli/
Hey @code_report@mastodon.social here is @dsouflis@techhub.social the only J programmer I know in Greece and also a language implementer. Maybe a future guest for ArrayCast
Like many, I have too many open tabs on my browser. A new trend I spotted with myself was that among them too many were tabs with conversations with LLMs I'd come back later to. I never did. Bye bye tabs
A nightmare and a revelation about my #LLM sadness https://managing.blue/2026/07/11/software-calligraphy-part-2/
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I wrote something about open-weight models that has been on my mind for quite some time https://managing.blue/2026/06/21/open-weight-models-and-soft-power/
I wanted to scribble some lines on top of a jpeg image. For some reason Preview did not allow this. Enter jspaint.app - I loaded the image, drew the lines, done. Thank you.
Unsubscribed from python-announce, python weekly, golang weekly, postgres weekly.
Today the Linux Foundation is announcing the intent to form the Tokenomics Foundation, which will be a sister organization to the FinOps Foundation.
If you ever liked "MIT Guide to lockpicking" you will enjoy Act 3 from this episode.
With all the agentic workers being deployed here and there, I wonder how soon we will start reading thought leaders about the leaderless organizations, as the agents, working as a hive will be the one collective leader.
Long before google decided to ship the 4GB model to your Chromes I was trying to figure out a usage from Microsoft's BitNet, as it was marketed as a model for "the edge".
I was met with scepticism with people I discussed this. Now I feel somewhat vindicated.
RE: @HennaVirkkunen@ec.social-network.europa.eu
I own two .eu domains and preparing for the third :)