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Fire in the Valley: The Birth and Death of the Personal Computer

Fire in the Valley: The Birth and Death of the Personal Computer

The definitive history of the personal computer revolution, drawn from interviews with the people who made it happen, by two writers who witnessed it happening.

2014

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Michael Swaine

AI Is Eating the World

The insatiable appetite of Large Language Models; a bigger, better blogroll; the return of poetry in the blog.

4 min read1 day ago

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Leaves falling on a shady stretch of the Illinois river in Oregon, fall 2023.

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Michael Swaine

Beck’s Maps, Rex Barks, and Grokking the Squonk

A Swaine’s Flames Flashback

5 min readApr 29, 2024

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Beck’s Maps, Rex Barks, and Grokking the Squonk

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The Naturalist and the Poet’s Daughter

A mere bit of frivolity.

4 min readApr 22, 2024

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The Naturalist and the Poet’s Daughter

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Michael Swaine

Artificial Intelligence: Defining Our Terms

Continuing the story of the current AI revolution, and how we got here.

6 min readApr 15, 2024

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Artificial Intelligence: Defining Our Terms

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Michael Swaine

The Eclipse Edition

Don’t call them eclipse glasses.

5 min readApr 7, 2024

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The Eclipse Edition

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Michael Swaine

The AI Revolution: What’s It All About?

Feeding the beast vs products and profits; a Dirt Road Diary; Apple WWDC speculations.

6 min readApr 1, 2024

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The AI Revolution: What’s It All About?

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Michael Swaine

The AI Revolution: How We Got Here

The first installment in a series on the sources of the present dilemma.

8 min readMar 25, 2024

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The AI Revolution: How We Got Here

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Michael Swaine

Doctor Turner Explains Everything

A Swaine’s Flames for the 2020s.

7 min readMar 18, 2024

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Doctor Turner Explains Everything

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Michael Swaine

Could Elon Pass the Turing Test?

The week in Artificial Intelligence.

5 min readMar 11, 2024

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Could Elon Pass the Turing Test?

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Michael Swaine

Poetry Week: The Villanelle

A brief detour into verse.

4 min readMar 4, 2024

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Don’t forget the alt text.

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Michael Swaine

Michael Swaine

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Editor-in-chief of the legendary Dr. Dobb’s Journal, co-author of seminal computer history Fire in the Valley, editor at Pragmatic Bookshelf.

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