Issue #22•21 min•Oct 8, 2026
Issue 22 - The Turing Machine ExplainedAn infinite tape, a read-write head, and a table of rules simple enough to fit on an index card: the anatomy of universal computation, and why it keeps appearing by accident.AI Updates•19 min•Oct 3, 2026
AI Update: October Week 1Everything That Actually Mattered Heading Into October: The week autonomous agents breached government portals, Anthropic's doom-laden IPO prospectus leaked, and the race for 24/7 cloud workers acceleIssue #19•23 min•Sep 29, 2026
Issue 19 - George Boole: Mathematics Learns to ThinkIssue #9 covered his algebra in full. This is the other half of the story: a parallel revolution, a family of self-taught geniuses, and the forgotten bridge from pure logic to mechanical thought.AI Updates•19 min•Sep 26, 2026
AI Update: September Week 4Everything That Actually Mattered This week. The week 'pacing' turned out to mean a price war, a new military branch, and a shared testing crisis.Issue #17•31 min•Sep 22, 2026
Issue 17 - Charles Babbage's DreamHe set out to mechanize table-making with steam and gears. He ended up sketching, entirely on paper, the universal architecture of modern computingAI Updates•16 min•Sep 19, 2026
AI Update - September Week 3Everything That Actually Mattered in the Third Week of September. The week a CEO asked the industry to slow down and almost nobody with power said yes.Issue #16•34 min•Sep 17, 2026
Issue 16 - The First Mechanical CalculatorsTwo centuries before Babbage dreamt of calculating by steam, three inventors in three countries proved that arithmetic could live in gears and metal.Issue #15•20 min•Sep 15, 2026
Issue 15 - Humans Before ComputersBefore 'computer' meant a machine, it was an established job title. This is the story of the people who calculated the modern world by hand, and what happened when their name was inherited by silicon.AI Updates•13 min•Sep 12, 2026
AI Update - September Week 2Everything That Actually Mattered in the Second Week of September. The week the people building frontier AI said the quiet part out loud.Issue #14•23 min•Sep 10, 2026
Issue 14 - Logic Becomes MathematicsFrom Russell's paradox and Principia Mathematica to Church and Turing's 1936 breakthrough: the moment logic absorbed arithmetic, discovered its outer limits, and gave birth to computer science.Issue #13•22 min•Sep 8, 2026
Issue 13 - Algorithms Before ComputersLong before a single transistor existed, humans were running precise, mechanical, guaranteed procedures by hand. This is where the core concept of computing was born.AI Updates•14 min•Sep 5, 2026
AI Update - September Week 1Everything That Actually Mattered in the First Week of September. The week four labs broke their silence at once.AI Updates•14 min•Aug 29, 2026
AI Update - August Week 4Everything That Actually Mattered This Week in AI. The Week AGI Got a Deadline and the Real Evidence Showed Up Somewhere Else Entirely.AI Updates•11 min•Aug 22, 2026
AI Update - August Week 3One frontier lab hit the brakes on training while another hit send on drug discovery. Here is what actually mattered this week in AI.AI Updates•11 min•Aug 15, 2026
AI Update - August Week 2Everything That Actually Mattered in the First Week of August. The week AI stopped being just a tool.AI Updates•17 min•Aug 8, 2026
AI Update - August Week 1Everything That Actually Mattered in the First Week of August. The Week AI Started Escaping the LabFoundations•3 min•Jul 27, 2026
Issue 0 - Before Machines Could ThinkBefore neural networks, there was mathematics. Before AI, there was logic. Before machines could learn, humans had to learn how to think.
