Posts tagged with Computing
Imparting Online Security onto the Next Generation
I just spent three weeks—mostly weekends, but also waiting days for email responses from customer support—trying to settle my son's Xbox account. All he wanted to do was play Minecraft on his desktop PC. But neither…
Optimizing MacOS Screens
So I was inspired to write this post on workflow-centric computing from playing around with a couple of MacOS utilities recently: specifically, Aerospace for window and virtual desktop management, and BetterDisplay for screen resolution. I've been trying to…
Workflow-Centric Computing
Depending on what you consider to be the genesis of mobile devices, it's been somewhere between 1 to 2 decades since smartphones and tablets have overtaken personal computers as the primary computing gadgets—at least for personal use.…
Machine Learning the Ropes of Intuition
We tend to romanticize the manual past in our inexorable march of technological progress and automation. Artisanal craft over factory assembly lines. Personalized service over generic interactions. Professional piano tuner over…whatever apps would help tweak instruments' efficacies in…
Review: Quantum Supremacy
I went through a theoretical physics phase in high school. Our school only offered the standard high school courses, but I started collecting, and became enamored, with books written by famous contemporary physicists: Carl Sagan, Stephen Hawking, Michio Kaku, Brian…
Productive Computing
I've been using the Vision Pro now for almost 3 months. It's a neat machine, crammed with technology and party tricks pulled from the future. Yet, after the initial hype, its software and hardware limitations have…
