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The Thinking Machine Chronicles #0014: Neurons That Fire Together Wire Together: Hebb's Learning Rule
In 1949, Donald Hebb proposed a single sentence about synaptic plasticity that became the foundational learning rule of neuroscience and artificial neural networks alike. Every weight-update algorithm in modern deep learning is, in some sense, a descendant of what Hebb wrote in a McGill University psychology lab.
August 17, 2026
10 min read
The Thinking Machine Chronicles #0013: The Baby That Changed Everything: The First Stored-Program Computer Runs
On 21 June 1948, a small machine in a converted stable at the University of Manchester ran 17 instructions and found the highest factor of 262,144. It took 52 minutes. It was the first time in history that a computer executed a program stored in its own memory: and everything that followed descends from that moment.
July 17, 2026
11 min read
The Thinking Machine Chronicles #0012: A Mathematical Theory of Communication: Shannon Invents Information Theory
In July 1948, Claude Shannon published a paper in the Bell System Technical Journal that answered three questions no one had previously asked with precision: what is information, how much can a channel carry, and can errors be corrected without bound? Every digital communication system ever built rests on his answers.
July 8, 2026
12 min read
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TMC #0014: Hebb Learning Rule: Associative Memory Network
A pure-Python implementation of Hebbian learning (1949): outer-product weight storage, bipolar associative recall, noise-tolerance testing, capacity limit demonstration, and Oja's normalised rule for comparison.
August 17, 2026
TMC #0013: Manchester Baby: SSEM Stored-Program Simulator
A pure-Python simulator of the 1948 Small-Scale Experimental Machine (SSEM): all 7 original instructions, 32-word memory, and the first program ever run on a stored-program computer: finding the highest factor of 2^18.
July 17, 2026
TMC #0012: Information Theory: Shannon Entropy & Channel Capacity
A pure-Python implementation of Claude Shannon's 1948 information theory: Shannon entropy, mutual information, Shannon-Hartley channel capacity, BSC capacity, and optimal Huffman source coding.
July 8, 2026
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Weekly Insights: Week 33, Aug 10–Aug 16, 2026
Hidden gems in Frontend, Backend, and AI from this week's tech world.
Week 33
2026-08-16
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Hidden gems in Frontend, Backend, and AI from this week's tech world.
Week 32
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Hidden gems in Frontend, Backend, and AI from this week's tech world.
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