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Original article: https://medium.com/@cjckytxz/lazy-loading-dynamic-libraries-and-building-plugin-architectures-on-ios-challenge-accepted-a554fccdb84c Lazy Loading excavation inside the Walled Garden A friendly rebuttal to “Lazy Loading Dynamic Libraries and Building Plugin Architectures on iOS — Challenge Accepted!” There’s a genre of engineering blog post that I love and distrust in equal measure: the heroic proof-of-concept. Someone is told “you can’t do X on platform Y,” they roll up their sleeves, and several diagrams later they emerge holding a working binary. The recent piece on lazy-loading dynamic libraries on iOS is a fine specimen of the genre. Make no mistake, the work is careful, the write-up is honest, and the conclusion is sober. ...

Is this post card from the past or is this a post card from the future? A fascinating and often overlooked chapter in AI history. Kunihiko Fukushima and his Neocognitron, a pioneering artificial “brain” was developed in 1979. That laid the foundation for today’s deep learning. The “Artificial Brain” (Neocognitron): Created by Kunihiko Fukushima in 1979, it was the world’s first multilayer convolutional neural network. This architecture is now the backbone of modern AI vision systems. The Biological Approach: Unlike most Western AI at the time, Fukushima’s goal was to simulate the brain to understand human vision. The 1970s Context: He conducted this research during the so-called “AI winter” at NHK’s Science & Technical Research Laboratories. The WABOT-1 Connection There was an actual robot rather than just a brain model. WABOT-1, the world’s first full-scale humanoid robot, built in 1973 at Waseda University. It had a limb-control system, vision system, and conversation system, and was estimated to have the mental faculty of a one-and-a-half-year-old child. ...