Technology
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The Purpose of Pizza Delivery
I’ve been struggling a little lately with my current choice of profession: software developer/web developer. With the advent of AI and other technologies in our modern world it is becoming increasingly difficult to find a job which is not being encroached upon by technology. Pizza delivery guys from established pizza places are being out-run by…
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On Vibe Coding
And the Surprising Potential of Having Computers Write Their Own Code Not too long ago, I started on a journey with “vibe coding” when I was innocently asking my AI assistant Claude if it would be feasible to write an in-ear AI assistant than ran on local hardware and emulated Jarvis from Iron Man (the…
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Starship Is a Solution Looking for a Problem
I sometimes wonder if Elon Musk’s obsession with making humans an interplanetary species is a little too radical and not enough balanced. Despite having written a blog post recently praising SpaceX for bringing space excitement to the masses again, I still have my doubts about the long-term utility and reasonableness of the Starship vehicle. Is…
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The Wrong Architecture for the Right Reasons
The brain is one solution to the problem of intelligence — but it may not be the only one, and it may not be the best one for silicon. Designing around the hardware we have, rather than reverse-engineering biology, could open doors we haven’t thought to look for yet.
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On Going to Mars
I’ve told my Mom a couple times this week that my views on spaceflight had changed, and that I might even now think of myself as the kind of person who would go to mars, to live there.
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A Colony That Depends on Earth Forever
Why the true difficulty of Mars colonization is not sending people, but the unglamorous reality of sustaining a Mars colony.
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Book: On Intelligence
Maybe ten years ago (2016 or earlier) I read a book authored by Jeff Hawkins with Sandra Blakeslee titled On Intelligence (2004) that changed my life. This book was the product of Jeff’s life-long quest to understand how the human brain works, and his more recent quest to apply it to machine intelligence.
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11 Technology Inventions and Ideas for a Better World
This is simply a collection of ideas that have been rolling around in my head for awhile and needed to make it onto the page. Everything from self-learning computers that don’t go out of date, to a vision for ecological responsibility free from government enforced rules
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Some thoughts on the current AI revolution
(From the perspective of a self-taught software developer) The idea of “Thinking Machines” has been around since the invention of the computer. Alan Turing first proposed the idea of a machine that would be able to trick a human into thinking it was a human simply by processing information. This was known as ‘The Imitation…
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