Gonzalo Contento

Software engineer. Writing about tech, mythology, and everything in between.

Thinker, not prose stylist. The ideas are mine; the articulation is assisted by AI — an honest arrangement, as old as the first scribe.

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The Elevator That Learned — McCulloch-Pitts, Hebb, and the Birth of Learning
August 11, 2026
The Elevator That Learned — McCulloch-Pitts, Hebb, and the Birth of Learning
Before a neural network could learn anything, it had to stop being fixed logic. A dispatch elevator, rewired across three real papers — 1943, 1949, 1958 — tracks what 'learning machine' actually meant before it meant what it means now.
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