Posts tagged with Technology
Through the Looking Glass
Augmented Reality (AR) is one of these technologies we keep returning to. The sheer science-fiction ness of wearing a computer on our faces, augmenting what we see around us with information gleaned from a combination of sight and sound…
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…
What is a Photo, Anyway?
The Sony Alpha A7C II isn't a large camera—the "C" in the name stands for "compact"—and it's often paired with thin, inconspicuous lenses to maintain mobility. But despite its diminutive…
Generated
Despite my optimism for Generative AI and its floor-raising use cases, we might have already peaked in AI hype. As much as Wall Street analysts and venture capital firms seem detached from regular people, they've already started…
Limited Technology
As an unabashed fan of both e-ink technologies as well as reading, I regularly look for and upgrade my e-readers: going from the original Kindles, to the Kindle Voyager and Oasis[1], to the Remarkable and Kindle Scribe…
AI Optimism
When the hype cycle around AI was picking up a few years back, there was this pervasive fear that we were on the cusp of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). ChatGPT and its ilk were such a step function over what…
