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James Bridle's personal blog at shorttermmemoryloss.com covers culture and philosophy. Since 2009, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “A New Theory of Awesomeness and Miracles”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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6HN people?
2009–2015first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 3 in 2009

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Why HN links it

Commenters link James Bridle's MENACE presentation and a history of matchbox game-learning machines, both about the Matchbox Educable Noughts and Crosses Engine. No judgement of the writing is given.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

The website of James Bridle.

Most-linked posts?

  1. A New Theory of Awesomeness and Miracles
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2009-11-02

What Hacker News says?

  1. From this presentation: http://shorttermmemoryloss.com/menace/ A brief history of Matchbox Game-Learning Machines: http://books.google.com/books?id=orz0SDEakpYC&pg=PA471&#...

    Comment linking /menace/

    on “MENACE: the Matchbox Educable Noughts And Crosses Engine”
  2. Submitted All cameras are police cameras as a story · 383 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted A New Theory of Awesomeness and Miracles as a story · 54 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted Low Latency as a story · 10 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted A New Theory of Awesomeness and Miracles as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted The nor – An investigation into paranoia, electromagnetism, and infrastructure as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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