I am pleasantly surprised by this. Yes, lets focus this site on computing! I want more deep discussions on that.
Machine learning has been at the center of computing since the beginning. Alan Turing wrote “Computing Machinery and Intelligence” paper in 1950. He talked about building “a child machine”. John von Neumann was influences by McCulloch and Pitts model of artificial neurons in 1943 and later wrote The Computer and the Brain. Claude Shannon built Theseus in 1950s, a mechanical mouse that learned to go around a maze. He founded information theory which is deeply connected with LLMs. Even Ada Lovelace talked about how machines could only do what they are told and could not originate anything, she was wrong. But the point is ML was at the very beginning of computing.
So if you love computing but aren’t studying machine learning (which LLMs are part of), you are missing a huge part of what computing is about. Lobsters is about computing and LLMs have deep connections with computer science, math, and information theory.
What sucks right now are the groups controlling this technology! Fortunately the Chinese labs have been a huge thorn in their side releasing open weight models. DeepSeek just released their inference engine software code as open source.
I am pleasantly surprised by this. Yes, lets focus this site on computing! I want more deep discussions on that.
Machine learning has been at the center of computing since the beginning. Alan Turing wrote “Computing Machinery and Intelligence” paper in 1950. He talked about building “a child machine”. John von Neumann was influences by McCulloch and Pitts model of artificial neurons in 1943 and later wrote The Computer and the Brain. Claude Shannon built Theseus in 1950s, a mechanical mouse that learned to go around a maze. He founded information theory which is deeply connected with LLMs. Even Ada Lovelace talked about how machines could only do what they are told and could not originate anything, she was wrong. But the point is ML was at the very beginning of computing.
So if you love computing but aren’t studying machine learning (which LLMs are part of), you are missing a huge part of what computing is about. Lobsters is about computing and LLMs have deep connections with computer science, math, and information theory.
What sucks right now are the groups controlling this technology! Fortunately the Chinese labs have been a huge thorn in their side releasing open weight models. DeepSeek just released their inference engine software code as open source.
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