I definitely attribute discovering and developing some of my longest standing interests to some of my teachers. Close friends too, just thoughtful peopld. In contrast, even at a young age I have perceived writing as rigid and constraining more than educating and liberating. Perhaps electronic text in connection with large networks does have more rapid adaptability, it still clearly fails in comparison to the flexibility of speech.

Building devices running language models at the base layer might get us closer, like seeing a X post by Pavan Jayasinha yesterday, mentioning building an FPGA running a LLM end to end in hardware.