Memory: the forgotten history(lcamtuf.substack.com)

78 points by zdw 2 years ago | 4 comments

UI is hell: four-function calculators(lcamtuf.substack.com)

198 points by surprisetalk 1 year ago | 115 comments

Sierpiński Triangle? In My Bitwise and?(lcamtuf.substack.com)

204 points by guiambros 1 year ago | 49 comments

A reactionary take on memory safety(lcamtuf.substack.com)

22 points by zdw 2 years ago | 26 comments

Inside a Ferroelectric RAM Chip(righto.com)

135 points by chmaynard 2 years ago | 67 comments

Engineering Memory: On learning to memorize first 100 digits of pi (2024)(gregorygundersen.com)

50 points by fuzzythinker 1 month ago | 31 comments

AI has access to a vastly larger working memory than the human brain(davidepiffer.com)

524 points by rzk 2 months ago | 452 comments

A Substack essay by Davide Piffer arguing that AI's edge over mathematicians comes from a vast symbolic working memory rather than superior reasoning.

Eloquent JavaScript 4th edition (2024)(eloquentjavascript.net)

1159 points by vajdagabor 2 years ago | 208 comments

Website for Eloquent JavaScript, Fourth Edition (2024), a free online book by Marijn Haverbeke teaching JavaScript programming.

Alonzo Church: Architect of computer intelligence(onepercentrule.substack.com)

318 points by drcwpl 2 years ago | 81 comments

A Substack essay profiling logician Alonzo Church and his solution to the Entscheidungsproblem as a foundational contribution to computer science.

The internet is kind of a predatory cesspit now(stephendiehl.com)

347 points by ibobev 1 month ago | 228 comments

Stephen Diehl blog essay arguing the modern internet has become predatory compared with the amateur, non-commercial web of the 1990s.

Thought as a Technology (2016)(cognitivemedium.com)

4 points by tobr 26 days ago | 0 comments

Michael Nielsen's 2016 essay on how computer interfaces can serve as cognitive technologies that expand the range of human thought.

Ideas aren't getting harder to find (2022)(experimental-history.com)

127 points by rafaelc 17 days ago | 56 comments

Adam Mastroianni's Experimental History essay arguing against the claim that new ideas are getting harder to find, saying discovery is still possible.