Back in 2017, the sci-fi author Ted Chiang wrote a prescient article surfacing the fears of AI. This was before the technology had reached its current, supercharged LLM form, before even GPT-1 was trained. He was reflecting on…
Etched in my core memory, from my teenage gaming years, is The Offspring's All I Want: It's the intro loop from the arcade game Crazy Taxi. The core game and its sequels haven't seen…
What are the rules to the game? What game are we even playing? A couple years ago, we caught the Super Bowl on TV, with the 49ers playing in the biggest sporting event of the year. As my son was…
It seems like FIRE survived after all. The acronym stands for Financial Independence, Retire Early. It's a movement I've been following since the late 2010s, with the emphasis on financial calculations and statistical analysis tickling my…
I think it was the semester's first career fair, during my sophomore year in college. A Microsoft recruiter, screening for computer science majors, pulled me aside and asked me what my "favorite language" was. I panicked,…
"The world is moving faster than ever…", and all of its paraphrased clichés, have become a personal pet peeve. It shows up in business articles, podcasts, and plenty of advertising, to trigger a sense of anxiety and uncertainty…
