People talk about Apple stealing from Xerox, but what you may not know is that Douglas Engelbart's team at SRI left shortly after this demo and took everything to Xerox without him. The man spent the rest of his career being swept into gutters, never got any recognition until the early 2000s at the very end of his life. It's a really tragic tale.
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.
I wish that this wasn’t a LLM-generated summary of a YouTube video.
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.
Doug Engelbart's work focused on collective intelligence. The technology demonstrated is in service of that goal. You can pick apart the finer points, but you're missing the forrest for the trees.
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[ 2.9 ms ] story [ 17.1 ms ] threadUnfortunately, 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.
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.
HTTPS://www.abortretry.fail
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJDv-zdhzMY
Better article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mother_of_All_Demos