Philosophy Mondays: Human-AI Collaboration
Today's Philosophy Monday is an important interlude. I want to reveal that I have not been writing the posts in this series entirely by myself. Instead I have been working with Claude, not just for the graphic illustrations, but also for the text. My method has been to write a rough draft and then ask Claude for improvement suggestions. I will expand this collaboration to other intelligences going forward, including open source models such as Llama and DeepSeek. I will also explore other moda...
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Web3/Crypto: Why Bother?
One thing that keeps surprising me is how quite a few people see absolutely nothing redeeming in web3 (née crypto). Maybe this is their genuine belief. Maybe it is a reaction to the extreme boosterism of some proponents who present web3 as bringing about a libertarian nirvana. From early on I have tried to provide a more rounded perspective, pointing to both the good and the bad that can come from it as in my talks at the Blockstack Summits. Today, however, I want to attempt to provide a coge...
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So I got up earlier than usual this morning to work on a post about more details on how CPUs work and some actual assembly language. In particular I was planning to introduce the notion of registers and maybe the stack (all of this using a neat web-based 6502 emulator).
But then it occurred to me that I really don’t have a good sense of whether this is what folks want to read about. So I figured I would provide a quick recap instead and then lay out some possible directions.
So far Tech Tuesday has covered:
1. An Overview of Building Blocs
2. Of Bits and Bytes (Binary Number System)
3. A First Look at the Central Processing Unit (CPU)
4. Main Memory (Dumb, Lazy and Slow)
5. Storage (Oh My, How It Has Grown)
So I got up earlier than usual this morning to work on a post about more details on how CPUs work and some actual assembly language. In particular I was planning to introduce the notion of registers and maybe the stack (all of this using a neat web-based 6502 emulator).
But then it occurred to me that I really don’t have a good sense of whether this is what folks want to read about. So I figured I would provide a quick recap instead and then lay out some possible directions.
So far Tech Tuesday has covered:
1. An Overview of Building Blocs
2. Of Bits and Bytes (Binary Number System)
3. A First Look at the Central Processing Unit (CPU)
4. Main Memory (Dumb, Lazy and Slow)
5. Storage (Oh My, How It Has Grown)
Philosophy Mondays: Human-AI Collaboration
Today's Philosophy Monday is an important interlude. I want to reveal that I have not been writing the posts in this series entirely by myself. Instead I have been working with Claude, not just for the graphic illustrations, but also for the text. My method has been to write a rough draft and then ask Claude for improvement suggestions. I will expand this collaboration to other intelligences going forward, including open source models such as Llama and DeepSeek. I will also explore other moda...
Intent-based Collaboration Environments
AI Native IDEs for Code, Engineering, Science
Web3/Crypto: Why Bother?
One thing that keeps surprising me is how quite a few people see absolutely nothing redeeming in web3 (née crypto). Maybe this is their genuine belief. Maybe it is a reaction to the extreme boosterism of some proponents who present web3 as bringing about a libertarian nirvana. From early on I have tried to provide a more rounded perspective, pointing to both the good and the bad that can come from it as in my talks at the Blockstack Summits. Today, however, I want to attempt to provide a coge...
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From here there are a great many places to go. So let me describe three different possibilities for what’s next and see if there are any strong preferences.
Programming Basics: This would take a language such as Javascript and introduce basic programming concepts such as variables and controls structures (e.g. branching, loops). Would probably leverage Codeacademy.
Lower Level Programming: This is sort of where I was headed before deciding to ask for direction. The sequence would start by taking a look inside the CPU and its registers. We would then examine some assembly code and work our way up towards programming in C.
Web Technologies: This would be a series of posts covering what HTML is, how the HTTP request cycle works, and how domain names are resolved to IP addresses. I might also throw in some CSS and Javascript.
I am planning to cover all of these topics and many more eventually so this is not a question about whether or not any of these should be part of Tech Tuesdays, rather what to cover next. So to get help with this I am trying to get a better sense of the audience currently reading Tech Tuesdays and what your are all interested in. There are only four questions. The more people answer, the better I can make the series.
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From here there are a great many places to go. So let me describe three different possibilities for what’s next and see if there are any strong preferences.
Programming Basics: This would take a language such as Javascript and introduce basic programming concepts such as variables and controls structures (e.g. branching, loops). Would probably leverage Codeacademy.
Lower Level Programming: This is sort of where I was headed before deciding to ask for direction. The sequence would start by taking a look inside the CPU and its registers. We would then examine some assembly code and work our way up towards programming in C.
Web Technologies: This would be a series of posts covering what HTML is, how the HTTP request cycle works, and how domain names are resolved to IP addresses. I might also throw in some CSS and Javascript.
I am planning to cover all of these topics and many more eventually so this is not a question about whether or not any of these should be part of Tech Tuesdays, rather what to cover next. So to get help with this I am trying to get a better sense of the audience currently reading Tech Tuesdays and what your are all interested in. There are only four questions. The more people answer, the better I can make the series.
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