PDF, AI, and the Downstream Dreams
The first rule of the Matrix is that you are not even aware of its existence. The second rule of the Matrix is that whatever you discover after breaking out …
The PDF Highway to the Digital Thread
Loving mankind is easy when you’re independently wealthy, and embracing progress is straightforward without legacy data to contend with. On the other hand, loving your neighbor and wisely connecting your …
Spring, Red-Pill, PDF, LLM
Spring is the loveliest time of the year. Appearances can be deceiving; the PDF format might never truly disappear, and “The Matrix” and “Idiocracy” are actually the same movie franchise. …
A File For All Seasons
Prior to Johannes Gutenberg, the information cycles of knowledge creation, propagation, and consumption worked via a tightly controlled trickle of manually crafted books. These cycles were slow and highly inefficient …
Harry Potter had a farm
As strange as it sounds, the most successful British products of our age are “The Lord of the Rings” from a time when the British Empire still ruled the waves, …
