What would a culture of vernacular computing look like?

This idea comes to me as a synthesis of two ideas:

• Broadly speaking, any given nation (especially in its less urbanized regions) is comprised of a wide variety of local dialects and customs. These tend to have deep roots in place …

Based on the Wikipedia entry for random walk, which states: “An elementary example of a random walk is the random walk on the integer number line Z which starts at 0, and at each step moves +1 or −1 with equal probability.”

In the introduction of their book Ways of Being (2022), James Bridle writes of being asked at a speaking engagement about when they think artificial superintelligence will emerge. Bridle’s response is quite fascinating: “It’s already here. It’s corporations.”

Imagine a system with clearly defined goals, sensors and …

The weirdness of random number generation in computation, given how often it’s used in computational art, game design, cryptography, and more, has become increasingly fascinating to me—particularly the idea that being able to identify or develop the underlying algorithm that generates random numbers nullifies their true randomness. If …