Science Fiction
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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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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 Everything from self-learning computers that don’t go out of date, to a vision for ecological responsibility free from government enforced rules
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Dunes of Insolence II
Clouds of dust and grit enrage the nostrils, mock the mouth. Slogging shifting sand tries to submerge the feet. An enraged tempest. He trudges on, one footstep at a time, each an aching echo of his soul. The sand pings against his googles, creating a screeching cacophony with his thoughts. Numbing his mind. It’s already…
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Where the Light Shines
A Surprising Journey into Darkness – Hopeful Dystopian Sci-fi Monochromatic steel-blue skyscrapers rose overhead, blocking the sky and casting gloomy shadows on the cavernous corridor. Like giant sentinels, they guarded the streets below with empty gazes. Not all of them were even in use nowadays, ever since the population collapse of the last hundred years.…
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