I’ve had decades to stew in my education, which was in physics and biology. And in those decades, the religion of my youth, Catholicism, in which I had some interest as a young person, has become […]
I’ve been piloting the use of GPT4 for work and personal projects lately. I am something of an AI Skeptic, but GPT4 (in particular) has surprised me with its ability to perform sort of complicated tasks […]
I’ve got to admit, ChatGPT is pretty amazing. And I’ve spent a few nights, as a technical professional and teacher, wondering how it might complicate my life. And I’m sure it will. But I think its […]
Back when I was a sleep-deprived new dad watching my own kid’s brain bootstrap itself into reality, I became fascinated with the fact that images, and much of art, undermine the apparent causal relations which rigidly […]
When we invent a new technology, we become cannibals. We eat ourselves alive since these technologies are merely extensions of ourselves. The new environment shaped by electric technology is a cannibalistic one that eats people. To […]
In childhood you are only aware of death in the immediate relationship between harm and pain. In adolescences the nature of the world imposes itself on you in the development of sexual maturity – the great […]
I don’t get to do a lot of game development these days (now that I am a dad and I have a full time job). But I still think about game design a fair bit in […]
I’m working on a giant post about the 2nd Annual Phenomenological Approaches to Physics Conference I attended a few months ago. My mid-life crisis has taken the form of a desire to get my head entirely […]
As I mentioned in my last post I’m still using Emacs. One of the big reasons is that I do the vast majority of my work as a Data Scientist over a text based terminal. This […]
Its 2019. I’ve been using Emacs for more than a decade and I’m not inclined to stop. Sometimes, my colleagues get on my case about it – why not use (for instance) RStudio or Jupyter or […]