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Sean,

Great writing.

Thanks for the virtual, posthumously introduction to Pamela McCorduck. I'm looking forward to your treatment of Charles Babbage And Ada Lovelace, which I haven't gotten to ... yet.

Thrilled to see you brining in Herb Simon (as did McCorduck as well as the Nobel Prize committee). The Herbert Simon concept of Satisficing dramatically improved psychology. Although he passed away in 2016, I'm told that most classical economists would still like to kill him, since he took simplistic mathematics away from them. (Since Amos passed away, everyone is more kind toward Danny for rocking their worlds with science.)

I loved your opening bit on Eliza, the psychotherapist. Interested readers should know that most versions of the text editor Emacs still have the a reasonable version of Eliza in them, available to run and get free psychotherapy for yourself !

I recently verified that for GNU Emacs; Eliza is called 'doctor' and can be accessed with "M-x doctor", that's escape X followed by doctor which produces this:

I am the psychotherapist. Please, describe your problems. Each time

you are finished talking, type RET twice.

Thanks again Sean!

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