Mark Watson's artificial intelligence and Lisp hacking blog

These are my notes: Setup # Install Docker and the Colima container runtime brew install docker colima # Start the runtime colima start (Note, I had to run: colima stop -f ; colima delete — then run Colima start again) # create docker image: docker run -d…

I try to only change my default tool stack slowly.

I just rejoined the FSF (https://www.fsf.org/) recently after almost ten years of not being a member.

I cover the use of LLMs in several of the books I have written.

Moonshot's new Kimi 2 model is extremely inexpensive to use.

I noticed on X this morning that Google dropped a new batch API with a 50% price cut.

In the late 1970s, I worked long hours on a text based adventure game called land of the dwarf for the Apple II computer.

I would like the USA to not lose the ‘AI race’ but I don’t want other countries to lose either.

I spent a few days experimenting with Cursor last week.

I have been been playing with the Apple Intelligence beta’s in iPadOS and macOS and while I like the direction Apple is heading I am getting more use from Google’s Gemini, both for general analysis of very large input contexts, as well as effective integr…

Putting "closer to AGI?"

I have only spent a short while experimenting with the ne gtp-o1 models: so far very impressive for science, math, and instruction following.

I wanted to convert my server side web site CookingSpace.com to mostly client side JavaScript.

Topics: Large context prompts with LLMs vs.

Robert Oppenheimer and Edward Teller facilitated my Dad getting a professorship at UC Berkeley when I was 3 years old.

As humans we have evolved over a few million years to be both attentive and reactive to danger, live in social communities, and spend much of our time being in the present moment gathering and eating food and socializing.

In the 1940s von Neumann and his colleagues created conceptual models for computer architectures that were oriented toward the engineering problems of building computing devices, and not for making it easier for humans to write programs.

I find it sad that Musk's purchase of Twitter is turning out so badly.

I read with some humor my last blog post from 6 months ago, saying that I was retired.

What does an intelligent person do in retirement?

Like most people, there are many more things that I would like to do than I have time to do.

I prototyped a simple natural language question answering demo in about 90 minutes.

I retired (my last job was Master Software Engineer and the manager of a deep learning team at Capital One) a year ago April and was enjoying time with friends and family, doing personal research in hybrid AI, lots of writing, and volunteering at our local

My wife Carol and I have been practicing social distancing and wearing masks for shopping for over 5 months now.

Here are some of my of my recent notes that might save you some time, or teach you a new trick.