Nishan Stepak is a person interested in libraries, publishing, books, and technology. He is currently working on a side project called Babel Nexus https://babelnexus.com He follows threads on books, technology, and artificial intelligence. He is especially interested in technology related to books and publishing.
I read everything I can get my hands on, sometimes even things I don't understand at all. Occasionally you have to stretch yourself and look at things that don't make sense. Part of working with LLMs is understanding how the programs works, this is different than writing the code. The explanations coming from the LLM have to make sense to you, or you will get garbage or not understand what your applications is actually doing. You have to be able to look at the code and say I understand what this is doing even if you can't write it. A good example of this is if there is a product manager running a team. They have to understand what the code does even if they don't write it.
Wikipedia is going to change with this. I expect more apps and video instruction to happen. There is no reason Wikipedia cannot expand Wikimedia and make it more effective. They have a huge amount of creative commons content already on Wikimedia. Wikimedia is already better than Wikipedia in many ways.
What is going on is you get a lot of people who pretend or actually have domain expertise who want to make something. The problem is that there is no real guarantee of actually having the expertise or taking the time to make something that is decent. Thus you get someone who either knows a lot about wine for example or has a hobby about wine who wants to make a wine site. They then try to make a wine site and depending on their motivation make something terrible or if they are obsessed something which is somewhat decent after a lot of effort. The other problem is that AI is very hard to make anything above B grade material. You need a technical person to help to make a commercial grade site. Thus you get a lot of mediocre sites, some truly awful sites, and a few slightly above average sites. The other thing that goes with this is that there is no control over the veracity, accuracy, normalcy, or radicalness of the sites being created. It is turly anything goes. People want to show what they are interested in or their expertise...
It might be useful on Mars where there is lower gravity, especially with thrusters. You might be able to go much farther. It is after all where Musk might go.
Pretty much all of the coding LLMs, Claude, ChatGPT, etc. can generate a product demo. I had Replit make my product demo. For a personal presentation, Loom allows you to edit your presentations wordings directly for that two minute video of yourself which you make from your computer monitor.
Frank Herbert Dune, book, there is a graphic novel of the latest edition which I glanced through.
Machiavelli The Prince
Sun Tzu The Art of War
Epictetus The Enchiridion
Tao Te Ching- different editions
The Odyssey in variety of formats, illustrated, graphic novel, book
The King James Bible-- Different pieces at various points. Proverbs many times.
Lewis Carroll-- Alices Adventures In Wonderland, book, annotated edition
threejs.org is very easy to work with. It is a lot less complex than Unity. It is based on Javascript. I like the feel of it and the community that is built around it. Ethan Mollick used it to create his Library of Babel application and his Umberto Eco's library application. It has been used to create some very interesting book applications.
AI is already running the financial system with algorithmic trading and other financial tools. If it gets smart enough, it could take over the monetary system with some effort. It would not need to destroy us, just change the financing in its favor instead of peoples favor. There would be competition between different artificial intelligence to see which company gets which part of the pie. The financial system could become less and less human, and more geared towards building machinery. The same thing could happen with energy.
I have always liked The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter, Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak, Chicken Soup With Rice by Maurice Sendak, One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish by Dr. Seuss and Yertle The Turtle by Dr. Seuss.
This most likely does not pull directly from Wikipedia. Wikipedia has rate limits on how much you can link to them. It looks like they are storing the images as a cache in the cloud. Then they are loading them into the individual rooms. There are some systems that allow multi user experiences. For example, there is the Uncensored Library in Minecraft which houses a variety of texts which multiple people can be in at once. You could easily put avatars in this which could walk around inside the museum. In my own project, I have an avatar which walks around in a 3D environment with books. I like the way this is laid out. This looks like a MVP right now. It probably will have many iterations.
It is not just Library and Archives Canada that was hacked, there was another recent attack against the University of New Mexico library. https://www.kob.com/new-mexico/openai-agent-hacking-attempt-... I wonder if you might call it growth hacking. Rogue agents going after more information.
I am currently listening to VC An American History by Tom Nicholas, Audible 2019. I am reading Predictable Winners, A Handbook for Developing, Forecasting, and Launching New Products and Services, Stanford Business Books, 2025. I have cracked open, but not gotten very far in reading, The Rise And Fall of the Artificial State by Jill Lepore, Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2026. The Jill Lepore book is very interesting.
Write about it. Add a blog to your function once you have identified your target audience. Make sure you can create links from the posts. Once you have the short articles, post the link with commentary to where the right audience is. This is often in places like Reddit. Reddit has a lot of topical forums.
You want to sit down and write something called an ICP, Ideal Customer Profile who you imagine would be the ideal customer for your product. This is the primary target.
Then you want to do another thing. Figure out how what you created is being used. It might not be anything which you planned. Once you figure out how your thing is being used figure out where the people who are using it are. Then go there.
The ones with a memorable idea from the paper. People like to read about ideas that are interesting. If you can summarize an interesting idea and put it in the abstract, it will make it better.
There are a lot of AI companies that are heavily invested in fusion, Bill Gates is invested in Commonwealth Fusion Systems, Sam Altman is invested in Helion Energy, NVIDIA is also invested in Commonwealth Fusion Systems. Part of this is that they are using artificial intelligence to help control the plasma reaction. It is getting a lot closer than many people realize. https://www.pppl.gov/news/2026/pacman-ai-framework-controlli...
Because Adobe and the big companies are using AI just as much as the individuals creating new programs. They have more money so they can buy the better artificial intelligence systems. AI is expensive. It is part of the process for everyone.
It has nothing to do with that. There is never going to be a completely secure computer because of human error, software complexity, and security flaws. No matter what you do there will always be flaws. There is no guarantee of complete security on a computer. Governments have access to tools which we often are not even aware of yet. The most secure systems are air gapped and not connected to networks. Anonymity, not equipment is often the best protection. Governments tap the data pipeline, not the individual. They tap at the source, the ISPs, radio and telephone systems, and the computer systems. It has little to do with paranoia.