Mark Bernstein
Mark Bernstein: hypertext research
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Stretch
An Architectural Morning
I just realized that a weblog can have multiple instances of the Tinderbox Reader, each open to a different document, or to a different starting point on the same document. That’s interesting.I’d like Our plan is to provide the Tinderbox Reader under the MIT License. It requires adding one line to the <head> element, one tag to the <body> of the web page, and uploading your Tinderbox file. Notice…
The Stranger
David Millard, The Stranger’s Notebook Oliver Selfridge, Pandemonium Brad Woods, Digital Garden
Tinderbox Reader
Our plan is to provide the Tinderbox Reader under the MIT License. It requires adding one line to the <head> element, one tag to the <body> of the web page, and uploading your Tinderbox file. Notice errors and omissions? Email me.
AI: Physics
Matthew Schwartz, The AI Grad Student . (published 23 March: why did no one tell me about this sooner?) Drop everything and read this. Schwartz works closely with Claude Code as he would with a second year graduate student, setting an original scientific problem that is bound to succeed, and then supervising the student in detail while letting the student do (and check) the work. The result was a…
AI: afternoon, with Claude
At last year’s ACM Hypertext Conference, Antonini, Lupi, Pisarski and Brooker reported on their efforts to coax Gemini to read a hypertext fiction, Richard Holeton’s Figurski at Findhorn On Acid . They had their hands full . Gemini’s analysis of the online edition revealed significant limitations in processing the actual hypertextual structure, instead offering a sociological meta-reading. It…
AI: Polite?
Ought one to be polite to Claude Code? Should you say “please” and “thank you”? On the one hand, it's a machine. It has no feelings to hurt. At least, we don’t think so. On the other hand, it’s good to be nicer, just on general principles. It does no harm to say “please”, at least not if you remember that Claude Code is not a person, nor even an animal. It is said that, even at the end of his…
The New Roman Empire: A History of Byzantium
Get the book. No one talks about curating one’s reading list. In the long run, I’m writing (or hoping to write) a book about information, computation, and understanding. One part of that is Byzantium. What we know about antiquity, we chiefly know because Byzantium managed to preserve it, and how they managed that is part of the history of information. I know very little about Byzantium, and this…
AI: New Frontiers
Today’s AI can make you better at doing things you do well. That is what AI is for. This week, I cleaned up a Tinderbox nuisance, one that goes all the way back to 2000. Tinderbox views, like the map view, are filled with geometry. Originally, I used native Points and Rects, but when we started to think about Windows, I abstracted them to SPoints and SRects which have lots of behavior:…