Posts tagged with Thoughts
Jigsaw Puzzle Solving
Jigsaw puzzles are an invention of a bygone era. As an entertainment product, it's antithetical to modern trends. It's a slow activity, where the finished product is readily available on the box , with no room for…
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…
Main Character Syndrome
Put yourself in their shoes. It's an idiom taught at a young age[1]; I think I introduced this to my children sometime around kindergarten. Of course, kids have to be reminded—consistently—about explicitly demonstrating empathy, to…
Comparing Like Things
While on vacation, I was sitting in a hotel lounge, with some sports show in the background playing on mute. From the overly animated expressions and the screens of stats and the chron banner though, it was pretty easy to…
Checking In on the Remote Revolution
As I type these words, we're onwards of 4 years from the initial reports of a novel coronavirus showing up somewhere in China, and therefore about 3 years from when the first vaccines were approved for mass inoculation.…
Checking in on Minority Report
Minority Report was a 2002 film, based on a Philip K. Dick novella of the same name, about what happens when a couple of oracles who can see possible futures are used by the police as a mechanism for predicting…
