Remembering Doug Lenat and his quest to capture the world with logic(writings.stephenwolfram.com)

148 points by andyjohnson0 3 years ago | 59 comments

How to Think Computationally about AI, the Universe and Everything(writings.stephenwolfram.com)

90 points by jam 3 years ago | 58 comments

When will the eclipse happen? A multimillennium tale of computation(writings.stephenwolfram.com)

129 points by nsoonhui 2 years ago | 23 comments

Dropping in on Gottfried Leibniz (2013)(writings.stephenwolfram.com)

12 points by aragonite 3 months ago | 3 comments

P vs. NP and the Difficulty of Computation: A ruliological approach(writings.stephenwolfram.com)

77 points by tzury 8 months ago | 34 comments

André Weil and the Hodge Conjecture(jiahao116.github.io)

29 points by caojiahao 1 month ago | 11 comments

There's no reason for software to be slow anymore(danluu.com)

592 points by Jach 2 months ago | 442 comments

Dan Luu essay arguing that LLM coding agents make specialized performance optimization cheap, illustrated with optimizing a regex engine for specific workloads.

I know why the mathematicians weep(derekthompson.org)

342 points by RickJWagner 11 days ago | 561 comments

Derek Thompson essay on his Substack about technological grief, using mathematicians' reactions to AI advances as a lens.

Computers Cannot Make Decisions(wiki.cateat.fish)

175 points by heavensteeth 16 days ago | 148 comments

A personal wiki essay arguing that blaming LLMs for harmful outcomes is decision laundering and that AI companies like OpenAI and Anthropic bear responsibility.

Building supercomputers for autocrats probably isn't good for democracy(helentoner.substack.com)

370 points by rbanffy 1 year ago | 192 comments

Helen Toner's Substack essay criticizing OpenAI's Stargate UAE project and the framing of building AI supercomputers for autocratic governments.

Loyal workers are selectively and ironically targeted for exploitation(sciencedirect.com)

341 points by ck45 3 years ago | 219 comments

Abstract page for a Journal of Experimental Social Psychology paper finding that loyal workers are selectively targeted for exploitation by managers.

Cold-blooded software(dubroy.com)

499 points by arbesman 2 years ago | 198 comments

Patrick Dubroy's blog essay using cold-blooded animals as a metaphor for software that can sit untouched for long periods and still work when revived.