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@Grady_Booch: While I don’t think that everyone needs to learn to program, Larry clearly does not understand that programming is a creative activity.

https://twitter.com/Grady_Booch/status/1807210444039557548

Published: June 30, 2024 00:32

While I don’t think that everyone needs to learn to program, Larry clearly does not understand that programming is a creative activity. https://t.co/VfY2Mk4IYb— Grady Booch (@Grady_Booch) June 30, 2024

@HawaiiDelilah: RT by @Grady_Booch: To serve his country, Donald Trump should leave the race | Editorial Biden had a horrible night Thursday. But the debate about the debate is misplaced. The only person who should withdraw from the race is Trump. BRAVO, Philadelphia Enq Editorial Board: inquirer.com/opinion/editor…

https://twitter.com/HawaiiDelilah/status/1807174500943118379

Published: June 29, 2024 22:09

To serve his country, Donald Trump should leave the race | EditorialBiden had a horrible night Thursday. But the debate about the debate is misplaced. The only person who should withdraw from the race is Trump.BRAVO, Philadelphia Enq Editorial Board:…

@Grady_Booch: Had my first sighting of a cyber truck on Maui (My neighbor across the street who is not a full-time resident.) It’s even uglier in real life than I’ve seen in the pictures.

https://twitter.com/Grady_Booch/status/1807131314270998728

Published: June 29, 2024 19:17

Had my first sighting of a cyber truck on Maui (My neighbor across the street who is not a full-time resident.)It’s even uglier in real life than I’ve seen in the pictures.— Grady Booch (@Grady_Booch) June 29, 2024

@Grady_Booch: “There is a good chance that if we build it, it will destroy life as we know it, so by god let’s build it!”

https://twitter.com/Grady_Booch/status/1806943087769657465

Published: June 29, 2024 06:49

“There is a good chance that if we build it, it will destroy life as we know it, so by god let’s build it!”— @AnthropicAI https://t.co/oSciEsOaYD— Grady Booch (@Grady_Booch) June 29, 2024

@Grady_Booch: Random computing history factoid: In the First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC by John von Neumann and published in 1945 - a document that established the foundational architecture of modern computing - he acknowledge the computational power of neurons, even referencing the work…

https://twitter.com/Grady_Booch/status/1806642082024677783

Published: June 28, 2024 10:53

Random computing history factoid:In the First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC by John von Neumann and published in 1945 - a document that established the foundational architecture of modern computing - he acknowledge the computational power of neurons, even…

@Grady_Booch: You go to war with the troops you have, not the troops you want. And come Election Day, I’ll still support Biden over the convicted felon any day.

https://twitter.com/Grady_Booch/status/1806577541400109497

Published: June 28, 2024 06:37

You go to war with the troops you have, not the troops you want.And come Election Day, I’ll still support Biden over the convicted felon any day.— Grady Booch (@Grady_Booch) June 28, 2024

@Grady_Booch: Computing has changed. Here's Simon, a DIY relay computer from the 1950s. ccapitalia.net/descarga/docs/…

https://twitter.com/Grady_Booch/status/1806564220894654902

Published: June 28, 2024 05:44

Computing has changed.Here's Simon, a DIY relay computer from the 1950s.https://t.co/03I2OQY8rt— Grady Booch (@Grady_Booch) June 28, 2024

@Grady_Booch: Trump is the ChatGPT of candidates: He spouts bullshit with extreme confidence, he steals without remorse, he is inherently biased, and he advances without any consideration other than to his own needs.

https://twitter.com/Grady_Booch/status/1806549239398535473

Published: June 28, 2024 04:44

Trump is the ChatGPT of candidates: He spouts bullshit with extreme confidence, he steals without remorse, he is inherently biased, and he advances without any consideration other than to his own needs.— Grady Booch (@Grady_Booch) June 28, 2024

@Grady_Booch: It pains me to say this, but @TheDemocrats need a different candidate for President.

https://twitter.com/Grady_Booch/status/1806541002049556963

Published: June 28, 2024 04:11

It pains me to say this, but @TheDemocrats need a different candidate for President.— Grady Booch (@Grady_Booch) June 28, 2024

@Grady_Booch: This book will not age well. AGI in five years? I think not. The primary use case of the word “singularity” is to sell books and make clickbait headlines. a.co/d/0cb6fq0I

https://twitter.com/Grady_Booch/status/1806518563223855160

Published: June 28, 2024 02:42

This book will not age well. AGI in five years?I think not.The primary use case of the word “singularity” is to sell books and make clickbait headlines.https://t.co/9ZVwf70mqW— Grady Booch (@Grady_Booch) June 28, 2024

@Grady_Booch: ENIAC was developed at a cost of $486,804.22 I'd say that was a bargain. apps.dtic.mil/sti/tr/pdf/ADA…

https://twitter.com/Grady_Booch/status/1806417016594817065

Published: June 27, 2024 19:59

ENIAC was developed at a cost of $486,804.22I'd say that was a bargain.https://t.co/jFITDU2thA— Grady Booch (@Grady_Booch) June 27, 2024

@Grady_Booch: Hey @mustafasuleyman: nope. Just because you want it and say it does not make it so.

https://twitter.com/Grady_Booch/status/1806399576183894404

Published: June 27, 2024 18:49

Hey @mustafasuleyman: nope.Just because you want it and say it does not make it so. https://t.co/4ve9jLeF56— Grady Booch (@Grady_Booch) June 27, 2024

@Grady_Booch: "We are a striving to be an AI-first company by optimizing user engagement for long-term relationships and experiences." -- @Grindr (I have no idea what that means.)

https://twitter.com/Grady_Booch/status/1806236105014120653

Published: June 27, 2024 08:00

"We are a striving to be an AI-first company by optimizing user engagement for long-term relationships and experiences."-- @Grindr (I have no idea what that means.)— Grady Booch (@Grady_Booch) June 27, 2024

@MikeDrucker: RT @MikeDrucker: Love this commercial is like, “Toys R Us started with the dream of a little boy who wanted to share his imagination with t…

https://twitter.com/MikeDrucker/status/1805773844306591820

Published: June 26, 2024 23:08

Love this commercial is like, “Toys R Us started with the dream of a little boy who wanted to share his imagination with the world. And to show how, we fired our artists and dried Lake Superior using a server farm to generate what that would look like in…

@Grady_Booch: The Man From the Future by @Ananyo is a wonderful book! amazon.com/Man-Future-Vis…

https://twitter.com/Grady_Booch/status/1806097404380520768

Published: June 26, 2024 22:49

The Man From the Future by @Ananyo is a wonderful book!https://t.co/P4l8NELsKp— Grady Booch (@Grady_Booch) June 26, 2024

@Grady_Booch: Hey Twitterverse, anyone know who the man in the middle is?

https://twitter.com/Grady_Booch/status/1806078610140455019

Published: June 26, 2024 21:34

Hey Twitterverse, anyone know who the man in the middle is? pic.twitter.com/IWBNOft9i6— Grady Booch (@Grady_Booch) June 26, 2024

@Grady_Booch: "There probably has to be a God. Many things are easier to explain if there is than if there isn't." -- John von Neumann

https://twitter.com/Grady_Booch/status/1806057902857159154

Published: June 26, 2024 20:12

"There probably has to be a God. Many things are easier to explain if there is than if there isn't."-- John von Neumann— Grady Booch (@Grady_Booch) June 26, 2024

@Grady_Booch: Excellent science here. BTW, I would observe that LLMs are not just bad at abstract reasoning, they are actually architecturally incapable of any kind of reasoning.

https://twitter.com/Grady_Booch/status/1806017930754400321

Published: June 26, 2024 17:33

Excellent science here.BTW, I would observe that LLMs are not just bad at abstract reasoning, they are actually architecturally incapable of any kind of reasoning. https://t.co/NcHE0idwGP— Grady Booch (@Grady_Booch) June 26, 2024

@Grady_Booch: And we know that moats became obsolete almost overnight with the advent of that new technology called gunpowder. See, that’s the problem of putting all of your assets in a fortress: it will inevitably fall to better technology

https://twitter.com/Grady_Booch/status/1805860281538822602

Published: June 26, 2024 07:06

And we know that moats became obsolete almost overnight with the advent of that new technology called gunpowder. See, that’s the problem of putting all of your assets in a fortress: it will inevitably fall to better technology

@Grady_Booch: “In this work, we show that MatMul operations can be completely eliminated from LLMs while maintaining strong performance at billion-parameter scales.” arxiv.org/abs/2406.02528

https://twitter.com/Grady_Booch/status/1805818561178517670

Published: June 26, 2024 04:21

“In this work, we show that MatMul operations can be completely eliminated from LLMs while maintaining strong performance at billion-parameter scales.” https://t.co/DBgGuekp1K— Grady Booch (@Grady_Booch) June 26, 2024

@Grady_Booch: First time I've been @grok ed (And the headline is strange: there is no debate, we - often - have very interesting back-and-forth here. I suppose that even @grok presupposed everything has to be toxic, which it is absolutely not in our case).

https://twitter.com/Grady_Booch/status/1805687087066497533

Published: June 25, 2024 19:38

First time I've been @grok ed(And the headline is strange: there is no debate, we - often - have very interesting back-and-forth here. I suppose that even @grok presupposed everything has to be toxic, which it is absolutely not in our case).…

@Grady_Booch: I am rapidly coming to the conclusion that the reason all these tech bros are so hungry for AGI is because it's a cerebral form of penis envy. #CallingDrFreudCallingDrFreud

https://twitter.com/Grady_Booch/status/1805684473968968188

Published: June 25, 2024 19:28

I am rapidly coming to the conclusion that the reason all these tech bros are so hungry for AGI is because it's a cerebral form of penis envy.#CallingDrFreudCallingDrFreud— Grady Booch (@Grady_Booch) June 25, 2024

@Grady_Booch: This was a neighbor! Let's just say that there is some unresolved mystery here...

https://twitter.com/Grady_Booch/status/1805545963593121857

Published: June 25, 2024 10:17

This was a neighbor!Let's just say that there is some unresolved mystery here...https://t.co/R0kLr6Em0L— Grady Booch (@Grady_Booch) June 25, 2024

@Grady_Booch: It may surprise you, but I agree with Francois. That being said a) I still don't know what AGI means in any objective, meaningful way and b) whatever a may be is still a long way off.

https://twitter.com/Grady_Booch/status/1805544560975921482

Published: June 25, 2024 10:12

It may surprise you, but I agree with Francois.That being said a) I still don't know what AGI means in any objective, meaningful way and b) whatever a may be is still a long way off. https://t.co/sEdwwAwrNr— Grady Booch (@Grady_Booch) June 25, 2024

@wikileaks: RT by @Grady_Booch: JULIAN ASSANGE IS FREE Julian Assange is free. He left Belmarsh maximum security prison on the morning of 24 June, after having spent 1901 days there. He was granted bail by the High Court in London and was released at Stansted airport during the afternoon, where he boarded a…

https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/1805390138945528183

Published: June 24, 2024 23:58

JULIAN ASSANGE IS FREEJulian Assange is free. He left Belmarsh maximum security prison on the morning of 24 June, after having spent 1901 days there. He was granted bail by the High Court in London and was released at Stansted airport during the afternoon,…

@mpawlo: RT by @Grady_Booch: Law burned the Library of Alexandria. No need for Julius Caesar in the modern digital world. cc: @lessig @zittrain @doctorow // anything we can do?

https://twitter.com/mpawlo/status/1805276653083615572

Published: June 24, 2024 16:27

Law burned the Library of Alexandria. No need for Julius Caesar in the modern digital world. cc: @lessig @zittrain @doctorow // anything we can do? https://t.co/CW3tQic5VK— Mikael Pawlo (@mpawlo) June 24, 2024

@Grady_Booch: My POV: the mind is computable. (and ergo, substrate does not matter)

https://twitter.com/Grady_Booch/status/1805245904536142301

Published: June 24, 2024 14:25

My POV: the mind is computable.(and ergo, substrate does not matter) https://t.co/AvUfB9o1NW— Grady Booch (@Grady_Booch) June 24, 2024

@TheSpaceGal: RT @TheSpaceGal: For years it was recommended I not do this in case Netflix changed their minds and renewed. But families wanted more scie…

https://twitter.com/TheSpaceGal/status/1805237957655417153

Published: June 24, 2024 14:21

For years it was recommended I not do this in case Netflix changed their minds and renewed.But families wanted more science and I couldn’t wait any longer - so I saved the money I made from my 2 experiment books and invested it all into…

@Grady_Booch: Building shiny new barn doors long after the cows have fled, so that you can evade responsibility for driving the cows out in the first place. @OpenAI techcrunch.com/2024/05/07/ope…

https://twitter.com/Grady_Booch/status/1804982180999020656

Published: June 23, 2024 20:57

Building shiny new barn doors long after the cows have fled, so that you can evade responsibility for driving the cows out in the first place. @OpenAI https://t.co/FVpbhgc3wP— Grady Booch (@Grady_Booch) June 23, 2024

@Grady_Booch: I have a security camera that alerts me when a vehicle has come up my driveway. This is for the most part a very useful facility. However, it has this annoying tendency to alert me at 3 AM when a small bug happens to land on the lens of my camera, thereby confusing the AI that…

https://twitter.com/Grady_Booch/status/1804947944266965086

Published: June 23, 2024 18:41

I have a security camera that alerts me when a vehicle has come up my driveway.This is for the most part a very useful facility.However, it has this annoying tendency to alert me at 3 AM when a small bug happens to land on the lens of my camera, thereby…

@Grady_Booch: To boldly go, where no neural network has gone before. #StarTrek

https://twitter.com/Grady_Booch/status/1804929034809479606

Published: June 23, 2024 17:26

To boldly go, where no neural network has gone before. #StarTrek https://t.co/gx1E9mjVdw— Grady Booch (@Grady_Booch) June 23, 2024

@Grady_Booch: A fun thread from Ken about the tiny computers that work in the shadows.

https://twitter.com/Grady_Booch/status/1804927110911598818

Published: June 23, 2024 17:18

A fun thread from Ken about the tiny computers that work in the shadows. https://t.co/zsxsinaRjB— Grady Booch (@Grady_Booch) June 23, 2024

@Grady_Booch: And building on Andrew’s post, I’d offer that the people who are most confident AI can replace developers are the ones who think software development is typing code.

https://twitter.com/Grady_Booch/status/1804744330810413245

Published: June 23, 2024 05:12

And building on Andrew’s post, I’d offer that the people who are most confident AI can replace developers are the ones who think software development is typing code. https://t.co/J4hmJ1t6US— Grady Booch (@Grady_Booch) June 23, 2024

@Grady_Booch: RT by @Grady_Booch: I agree with Gary that AGI “could definitely happen by 2040”…. …to the same degree that “the laws of physics permit all of the oxygen molecules to suddenly migrate to a corner of my room, thereby suffocating me” could definitely happen. Are either of these events probable?…

https://twitter.com/Grady_Booch/status/1804639548061917684

Published: June 22, 2024 22:16

I agree with Gary that AGI “could definitely happen by 2040”…. …to the same degree that “the laws of physics permit all of the oxygen molecules to suddenly migrate to a corner of my room, thereby suffocating me” could definitely happen. Are either of…

@Grady_Booch: “Burying our heads in the sand and making it the next generation’s problem is not pono.”

https://twitter.com/Grady_Booch/status/1804451495280271562

Published: June 22, 2024 09:48

“Burying our heads in the sand and making it the next generation’s problem is not pono.”https://t.co/RYsogZnfvj— Grady Booch (@Grady_Booch) June 22, 2024

@Grady_Booch: Shakes my head. Chasing down a quote, and @MSFTCopilot made up attributions - three times in a row! - that are laughably wrong.Problem is, I know who said what in this case, but a person without that domain knowledge would be deceived but its misinformation spoken with…

https://twitter.com/Grady_Booch/status/1803975371681067330

Published: June 21, 2024 02:16

Shakes my head.Chasing down a quote, and @MSFTCopilot made up attributions - three times in a row! - that are laughably wrong.Problem is, I know who said what in this case, but a person without that domain knowledge would be deceived but its…

@Grady_Booch: "The feedback we received over the last 24hrs once we advertised the film has highlighted the strong concern held by many of our audience on the use of AI in place of a writer which speaks to a wider issue within the industry."

https://twitter.com/Grady_Booch/status/1803888205722513578

Published: June 20, 2024 20:30

"The feedback we received over the last 24hrs once we advertised the film has highlighted the strong concern held by many of our audience on the use of AI in place of a writer which speaks to a wider issue within the industry."https://t.co/0q75P9fefH—…

@Grady_Booch: In my investigation into the architecture of weather modeling systems, today I have started going down the rabbit hole of Julia, a most fascinating programming language being used in this domain. (Fortran remains the dominant language therein, but that's changing.)…

https://twitter.com/Grady_Booch/status/1803887114532323652

Published: June 20, 2024 20:26

In my investigation into the architecture of weather modeling systems, today I have started going down the rabbit hole of Julia, a most fascinating programming language being used in this domain.(Fortran remains the dominant language therein, but that's…

@Grady_Booch: War has many causes. Competition over resources such as oil, minerals, spices, and water have triggered many conflicts. Wars have been fought to expand a nation’s territory and thereby its economic base. There are wars of independence and there are wars of liberation. The most…

https://twitter.com/Grady_Booch/status/1803730070751916413

Published: June 20, 2024 10:02

War has many causes. Competition over resources such as oil, minerals, spices, and water have triggered many conflicts. Wars have been fought to expand a nation’s territory and thereby its economic base. There are wars of independence and there are wars of…

@Grady_Booch: Public service announcement: If you are a for-profit conference and you invite me to speak at your event in some foreign country, rest assured that "exposure" will not cover my travel, accommodations, or honorarium.

https://twitter.com/Grady_Booch/status/1803727105517338902

Published: June 20, 2024 09:50

Public service announcement:If you are a for-profit conference and you invite me to speak at your event in some foreign country, rest assured that "exposure" will not cover my travel, accommodations, or honorarium. pic.twitter.com/tIfyADVptQ— Grady Booch…

@Grady_Booch: Computing and conflict have co-evolved, each influencing the other. Indeed, as we consider the journey from Jaccard to our present time, it is fair to say that the foundations of modern computing have been woven on a loom of sorrow. At first, during World War II, computing was a…

https://twitter.com/Grady_Booch/status/1803620674248024410

Published: June 20, 2024 02:47

Computing and conflict have co-evolved, each influencing the other. Indeed, as we consider the journey from Jaccard to our present time, it is fair to say that the foundations of modern computing have been woven on a loom of sorrow. At first, during World…

@Grady_Booch: Paradox: could God create a stone so heavy that even she could not lift it? Paraidox: could an artificial superintelligence create a utopia so perfect there was no place for itself?

https://twitter.com/Grady_Booch/status/1803592381188677687

Published: June 20, 2024 00:55

Paradox: could God create a stone so heavy that even she could not lift it?Paraidox: could an artificial superintelligence create a utopia so perfect there was no place for itself?— Grady Booch (@Grady_Booch) June 20, 2024

@bcmerchant: RT by @Grady_Booch: This Australian data scientist has some thoughts about AI and the current state of his industry

https://twitter.com/bcmerchant/status/1803489738348962117

Published: June 19, 2024 18:07

This Australian data scientist has some thoughts about AI and the current state of his industryhttps://t.co/9ryxFBHjiG pic.twitter.com/zUQIda1Qj1— Brian Merchant (@bcmerchant) June 19, 2024

@einarwh: RT by @Grady_Booch: Oh hey the recording from my talk "Agile and Architecture: A meeting of the undead" at @CraftConf is online!

https://twitter.com/einarwh/status/1803442248891105438

Published: June 19, 2024 14:58

Oh hey the recording from my talk "Agile and Architecture: A meeting of the undead" at @CraftConf is online! https://t.co/G34Gywki1W— Einar W. Høst (@einarwh) June 19, 2024

@Abebab: RT by @Grady_Booch: No papers and only 1% of patents were dedicated to targeting non-human data, showing that both computer vision research and applications are overwhelmingly concerned with datafying, analyzing, tracking, and monitoring humans and specifically human bodies. 10/

https://twitter.com/Abebab/status/1707009599742599247

Published: September 27, 2023 12:29

No papers and only 1% of patents were dedicated to targeting non-human data, showing that both computer vision research and applications are overwhelmingly concerned with datafying, analyzing, tracking, and monitoring humans and specifically human bodies.…