In Memory of Wendell Sparrow (1941–2024) and His Long Search for Machine Reason
Reason, Rules and Machines For four decades Wendell Sparrow tried to write down what people quietly know, one clause at a time, and to hand that ledger to a computer.
Reason, Rules and Machines For four decades Wendell Sparrow tried to write down what people quietly know, one clause at a time, and to hand that ledger to a computer.
Machines and Unfamiliar Minds What does a mind that never had a body actually picture? The question is far older than any of our current systems, and it has been argued over by naturalists and logicians for at least two centuries. It matters again now because the models we build seem to…
Release 9.4 is—by its own numbering—a “point update”. But—especially with the new inference layer—it keeps to our habit of shipping a long list of real improvements even in the smaller releases.
So what exactly sits inside the Tessara Prompt Library?
A short account of the months I spent trying to describe very large collections of objects without ever writing down how many of them there were.