What a truly lovely piece of work. I'm so glad that Wolfram adores math and science, and history, so much and has the tools to craft an excellent precis like this. It's always good to go to original sources, and connect with the deep past of learning to which we are the grateful inheritors. Predicting eclipses, and the details of how it was and is done, is probably considered by many to be pointless, boring, or even harmful (stealing intelligent attention away from more pressing problems, or any number of other reasons). But I think it's beautiful to retell these stories and appreciate them and the minds behind them. There is something so entirely wholesome about a learned man appreciating the work of his forebears. Wonderful.
Agreed, it was a really nice read. Even simply in the role of an educator I've taken a liking to his blog posts. There is a certain combination of both breadth and depth that I've not found anywhere else. His overview of how LLMs work from last year was on of the first really good pieces describing them truly from first principles. And still shapes how I describe their workings to people outside of tech.
