Nice collection of historic AI-related papers and movies (by Rodney Brooks @rodneyabrooks).
- Minsky's PhD thesis, which he talks about RL (I'd heard of this; never seen!)
- Turing's paper on AI
- Fukushima's convolutional net
- Kismet robot
people.csail.mit.edu/brooks/documen…
James R. Munkres, whom I know because of his Topology textbook, has died.
May he rest connected!
August 18, 1930 – July 30, 2026
douglassfh.com/obituary/james…
(Unproven) Claim: Most papers written in 2026 are less readable compared to papers written in 2006.
Hope this initiative helps and I welcome it. I have doubts though: The result might be more prompts of "Improve the writing of what you wrote so that it passes the criteria" type.
