Observed arrival · 2026-10-16
Todd View, from Donegal to the Lagrange points
Engineer and novelist Todd McCaffrey’s personal archive brings together essays, explainers, interactive projects, books, and talks about machines, minds, and space.
- For
- Readers curious about AI, minds, space, and interactive explainers
- Worth noticing
- The LLM Observatory places model landmarks on a globe, including a small pink cluster marking Donegal.
Field notes
The archive is divided into eight sections, from essays and space writing to interactive projects, book listings, talks, and a research-reading log. One featured roadmap runs across 13 sections and 19,000 words, while a separate explainer starts a language-model reader with a bigram table and index cards, explicitly keeping commercial AI out of the chain. The author identifies himself as an engineer since 1974, a novelist, cyberpsychology MSc, and private pilot based in Donegal.
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