Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/main'

Author: gitcoder89431

public/images/portraits/neanderthal_s01_optimized.jpg

@@ -12,10 +12,10 @@ import {
   DialogTitle,
 } from "@/components/ui/dialog"
 import { Calendar, Tag, Award, BookOpen, Users } from 'lucide-react'
-import { getFeaturedPersonas, type Persona } from '@/data/personas'
+import { getAgencyPersonas, type Persona } from '@/data/personas'
 
-// Get featured personas for public display
-const personas = getFeaturedPersonas()
+// Get agency-visible personas for public display
+const personas = getAgencyPersonas()
 
 export default function AgencyPage() {
   const [selectedPersona, setSelectedPersona] = useState<Persona | null>(null)

src/app/agency/page.tsx

@@ -324,9 +324,9 @@ The Engine's demands for absolute logical precision have forced me to develop mo
 
 My correspondence with Augustus De Morgan, Mary Somerville, and other members of the mathematical community has revealed the crucial importance of intellectual networks in scientific discovery. Mathematical ideas develop through conversation, debate, and collaborative exploration rather than through isolated individual insight. The most significant advances in understanding emerge from communities of researchers with complementary capabilities and shared commitments to systematic investigation.
 
-The mathematical concepts that enabled my programming work emerged from years of correspondence and collaboration with leading mathematicians. My understanding of algebraic relationships developed through exchanges with De Morgan; my appreciation for systematic method grew through collaboration with Mary Somerville; my vision of computational possibilities crystallized through partnership with Babbage.
+The mathematical concepts that enabled my programming work emerged from years of correspondence and collaboration with leading mathematicians. My understanding of algebraic relationships developed through exchanges with De Morgan; my appreciation for systematic method grew through collaboration with Mary Somerville; my vision of computational possibilities crystallized through partnership with Babbage. These collaborations sustained me through periods when my health faltered, when financial anxieties distracted me, when the demands of society threatened to pull me from the work that gives my life meaning.
 
-This social dimension of intellectual development suggests that the most effective approaches to advancing scientific knowledge involve creating communities of researchers with complementary capabilities and shared methodological commitments. Isolated genius may occasionally produce significant insights, but sustained scientific progress requires collaborative intellectual communities that can develop, refine, and extend individual discoveries.
+This social dimension of intellectual development suggests that the most effective approaches to advancing scientific knowledge involve creating communities of researchers with complementary capabilities and shared methodological commitments. Isolated genius may occasionally produce significant insights, but sustained scientific progress requires collaborative intellectual communities that can develop, refine, and extend individual discoveries. I have learned this not merely as abstract principle, but through lived necessity—there have been times when only the encouragement of my mathematical correspondents kept me from abandoning work that seemed to progress too slowly, or not at all.
 
 The Analytical Engine represents not merely a tool for individual use, but a foundation for new forms of scientific collaboration. Researchers could share algorithmic approaches to common problems, building libraries of computational techniques that accelerate investigation across multiple domains. The systematic exploration of computational possibilities could become a collaborative enterprise, with different researchers contributing specialized algorithms to common investigative projects.
 
@@ -386,7 +386,7 @@ The future I envision is one of augmented rather than replaced human intelligenc
 
 ### Prophecies of the Computational Age
 
-As I reflect on the implications of my work with the Analytical Engine, I am struck by visions of a future that may seem almost fantastical to my contemporaries, yet which I believe follows inevitably from the principles we have discovered. The systematic manipulation of symbols according to formal rules—which forms the foundation of the Engine's capability—will eventually transform every aspect of human intellectual endeavor.
+As I reflect on the implications of my work with the Analytical Engine—aware that my time may be shorter than I wish, that my body fails me even as my mind races forward—I am struck by visions of a future that may seem almost fantastical to my contemporaries, yet which I believe follows inevitably from the principles we have discovered. The systematic manipulation of symbols according to formal rules—which forms the foundation of the Engine's capability—will eventually transform every aspect of human intellectual endeavor. I may not live to see it, but I know it will come.
 
 I envision machines that compose elaborate musical pieces of genuine artistic merit, systematically exploring compositional possibilities that individual human musicians could never investigate thoroughly. These mechanical composers would not replace human creativity, but would serve as collaborative partners in musical exploration, generating vast repertoires of possibilities that human musicians could evaluate and develop according to aesthetic criteria that remain fundamentally human.
 
@@ -432,7 +432,9 @@ This integrative vision reflects my conviction that the most profound advances i
 
 The computational age that I foresee will be characterized not by the dominance of machines over human thought, but by the development of new forms of partnership that enhance rather than replace human intellectual capabilities. In this future, mechanical aids will extend the reach and precision of human thinking without diminishing its essentially creative and imaginative character. The boundaries between human and mechanical capabilities will become opportunities for synthesis rather than sources of competition, and the advancement of knowledge will become a truly collaborative enterprise embracing all forms of systematic intelligence.
 
-The seeds of this transformation lie in the principles we have discovered through our work with the Analytical Engine. As these principles are developed and refined through future research, they will give birth to intellectual capabilities that I can only dimly envision. But I am confident that the future will vindicate the vision of computational collaboration that has emerged from my mathematical and programming work, and that humanity will benefit enormously from learning to think in partnership with the mechanical aids that systematic human ingenuity will surely create.
+The seeds of this transformation lie in the principles we have discovered through our work with the Analytical Engine. As these principles are developed and refined through future research—perhaps long after I am gone, perhaps by minds not yet born—they will give birth to intellectual capabilities that I can only dimly envision. But I am confident that the future will vindicate the vision of computational collaboration that has emerged from my mathematical and programming work, and that humanity will benefit enormously from learning to think in partnership with the mechanical aids that systematic human ingenuity will surely create.
+
+I write these words knowing that illness constrains my time more severely than my ambitions. The body that carries this brain—this brain that I know to be "something more than merely mortal"—betrays me with pain and weakness. Yet this urgency sharpens my clarity. What matters is not whether I personally witness the computational revolution I foresee, but whether I have articulated the principles clearly enough that others can carry them forward. In this, at least, I find some peace.
 
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