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Mark Watson
Personal blog · mark-watson.blogspot.comaiprogramming
Mark Watson's personal blog at mark-watson.blogspot.com covers ai and programming. Since 2020, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-11, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link a 2016 Mark Watson post whose URL begins 'i-will-not-vote-for...' as evidence about Richard Stallman's political views in a thread on calls to oust him from the Free Software Foundation.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
AI, deep learning, LLMs, Lisp, Python
Most-linked posts?
- /2016/01/i-will-not-vote-for-hillary-clinton-i.html2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-03-25
What Hacker News says?
I liked the wrap up where the position is that it is OK when other browsers adopt some of Mozilla’s privacy features. I just about exclusively use FireFox with nine containers on my Linux and macOS laptops. Being able to segregate data is a game changer. On my iOS devices, I feel stuck with Safari since other browsers sit on top of Safari. I appreciate the privacy features in Safari but still feel the need to freque…
Comment linking /2020/02/protecting-oneself-from-surveillance.html
on “Mozilla’s plan to fix internet privacy”Submitted Forget the whole world and focus on your world as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI blogged a comparison 10 years ago: https://mark-watson.blogspot.com/2012/10/clojure-vs-scala-sm...
Comment linking /2012/10/clojure-vs-scala-smackdown.html
on “Don’t call it a comeback: Java is still champ”Submitted Protecting oneself from surveillance capitalism (2020) as a story · 1 points
HN discussion>>> As a very liberal person, I have to say that I am disgusted by cancel culture. Disgusted. > He's not. https://mark-watson.blogspot.com/2016/01/i-will-not-vote-for... Walk me through how that shows that he's not "a very liberal person."
Comment linking /2016/01/i-will-not-vote-for-hillary-clinton-i.html
on “Mozilla, Tor Join Calls to Oust Richard Stallman from Free Software Foundation”Submitted My hopes and predictions for the next 10 years as a story · 1 points
HN discussionHe's not. https://mark-watson.blogspot.com/2016/01/i-will-not-vote-for...
Comment linking /2016/01/i-will-not-vote-for-hillary-clinton-i.html
on “Mozilla, Tor Join Calls to Oust Richard Stallman from Free Software Foundation”Yes, I just wrote a blog about my list this morning https://mark-watson.blogspot.com/2022/03/i-retired-yesterday...
Comment linking /2022/03/i-retired-yesterday-my-list-of-things.html
on “Review of Lessons in the Fundamentals of Go by Toshiro Kageyama (2011)”This article is similar to Sinek’s book The Infinite Game, which I enjoyed a lot. Off topic and personal: I have enjoyed the tech industry for almost 50 years, but being in my 70s I just don’t have the energy to do everything I want to do. I still play the Infinite Game though as a 40 year AI practitioner by spending 2 hours a week working as an advisor to an AI startup, by closely following deep learning and specif…
Comment linking /2023/03/time-and-attention-fragmentation-in-our.html
on “Infinite Games”