The promptuary, also known as the card abacus is a calculating machine invented by the 16th-century Scottish mathematician John Napier and described in his book Rabdologiae in which he also described Napier’s bones.
@rasterweb I'm making slow but steady progress with the eink display stuff. Right now I'm pivoting to our #makerfaire project display while I learn the ropes. @adafruit guides, as always, incredibly helpful
This feels like a sister piece to Ed Zitron’s essay Era of the Business Idiots and Mandy Brown’s essay Toolmen. Fair warning, this is a 5000 word post; I’ve been working on this for weeks, pulling together what I’ve learned about generative AI and culture over the past two years, …
Why Bell Labs worked so well, and could innovate so much, while today’s innovation, in spite of the huge private funding, goes in hype-and-fizzle cycles that leave relatively little behind, is a question I’ve been asking myself a lot in the past years.
