Unfortunately, I was hit by a cold, and so I have been out of it for the past week. I ran into a dubious review of a book that I have not read — “Power and Progress” by Daron Acemoglu and Simon. I started commenting on what was discussed in that review, but decided that this concept was a stretch for an article. Since I had nothing much else I could write about, I just want to salvage a couple of points from my thinking. Most of my recent writing has been cleaning up my inflation text, also discussed.
"Automated Information" as I like to call AI, will have about as big an impact on society as the escalator, by my estimation. The escalator is my goto example when you are talking about complex technologies designed to replace simple tasks. They can work and be nice, but they're often not cost effective, almost never maintenance and worry free, and end up being used as a niche or novelty. Similar for idea for VR and other wearables.
I am fluent in html, word, LaTeX, all the rest, but merely with floss tools I now find markdown entirely adequate, beautiful LaTeX is easy to generate automatically, as are tables, and all the rest. Only inserting PNG images with a nice background color is a few minutes of drudgery, but a bash script can mostly automate that too. Sample: https://t4gu.gitlab.io/t4gu/theory/005_spacetime_algebra/#refresher-the-spacetime-clifford-geometric-algebra (that's a hugo website with goldmark and katex).
LaTeX for book projects though is still hard to beat.
"Automated Information" as I like to call AI, will have about as big an impact on society as the escalator, by my estimation. The escalator is my goto example when you are talking about complex technologies designed to replace simple tasks. They can work and be nice, but they're often not cost effective, almost never maintenance and worry free, and end up being used as a niche or novelty. Similar for idea for VR and other wearables.
I am fluent in html, word, LaTeX, all the rest, but merely with floss tools I now find markdown entirely adequate, beautiful LaTeX is easy to generate automatically, as are tables, and all the rest. Only inserting PNG images with a nice background color is a few minutes of drudgery, but a bash script can mostly automate that too. Sample: https://t4gu.gitlab.io/t4gu/theory/005_spacetime_algebra/#refresher-the-spacetime-clifford-geometric-algebra (that's a hugo website with goldmark and katex).
LaTeX for book projects though is still hard to beat.