I wish that this was a personal website and the content was handwritten. That the voice and insight was yours. Reading LLM-generated prose is like reading an obituary.
The name appropriately describes the content. The font weight for the table of contents doesn’t appear to sufficiently increase to indicate the user’s place on the page.
I'll update UI for the table of contents in a moment.
As for LLMs, my vision for Wordspike’s not to replace human voice, but to act as a filter. It's an add-on to see what video content is valuable to watch in full. It's my attempt to built a counter-weight to the endless amount of shorts and slop I see online.
If you prefer nothing at all, then just move on, close the tab, and pretend you never saw it.
https://dougengelbart.org/content/view/209/
Why on Earth are you defending lazy AI slop? Although, I guess I shouldn't be surprised on a Y Combinator message board.
https://www.technologyreview.com/2013/07/23/177246/douglas-e...
Anybody in the industry knows who Engelbart is and his name recognition is close to 100% in the circles where it matters. Between him and my late friend at Logitech they changed the world of personal computing.
But neither Engelbart or my friend were much on the 'cult of personality' and that is one reason their names are not 'household names' but Steve Jobs and Bill Gates are. I think that makes them nicer people, for not seeking that.
But I also recall attending a Techcrunch party at Mike Arringtons house in 2006/7 or so that Engelbart showed up at briefly, and how fun it was to see him instantly surrounded like a celebrity, so I think you're righ he was recognised in the circles where it mattered.
Edit: found this comment from hn a few years back with a link: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38584517
It's not to say that the specific implementations Engelbart was working with were good. But I'd point to Plan 9 from Bell Labs as a kind of hybrid between Douglas Engelbart's vision and what Xerox produced. It's a little alien, but relatively easy to learn, and at least conceptually it shows that an unstructured UI made up of hypertext and windows can be quite nice to use. When that's integrated with the primary IPC mechanism of the operating system, which also happens to be the filesystem, you end up with an intense synergy that's hard not to be delighted by. I don't think it was possible to avoid computers becoming digital filing cabinets, but I also don't think we should write off moving beyond this era at some point. There is a large, underexplored dark wood. I am very interested in what lives inside. I think revisiting Engelbart's ideas of human augmentation with a prolog-based system like the Japanese Fifth Gen Computer project has extremely promising implications.
-Bill Gates
Apple was founded because HP didn't want Woz's ideas for what became the Apple I.
Fortunately, Jobs thought he could sell it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJDv-zdhzMY
Better article:
Unfortunately, it seems like it's not working properly anymore. I just messaged Bret Victor and maybe he can get it back in working order or can reach out to someone.
HTTPS://www.abortretry.fail
