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The bad news is you’re in free fall, the good news is there’s no ground to hit.

Moore’s Law held from when he identified the trend in 1965 until around 2016 when our ability to make ever-smaller tranisters final abated.

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The TV movie “The Day After” played on November 20, 1983 to an audience of 100 million, five times more than watched the Game of Thrones finale in 2019.

With its new GPT-4 Vision model, ChatGPT can now answer questions about images.

While Midjourney and Stable Diffusion can produce stunning images, I recently started playing around with a quite a different style of AI Art.

You’re sitting with your friends in a coveted booth at your favorite dive bar.

Twenty years ago today William Gibson gave a brilliant and inspiring speech to the Directors Guild of America on their first ever Digital Day about the future of media.

Hermione carried a charmed beaded bag that contained everything from books and clothes to a three-room tent.

Podcast host Tim Ferris advocates an exercise he calls “fear-setting” — seriously considering the worst-case outcome.

Alika lives on Lagos mainland, a city with twice the population of New York.

ENIAC, the first programmable general-purpose electronic computer, completed in 1945, could execute four hundred floating-point operations per second: 400 FLOPS.

While the pandemic raged I would often relax into a comfy position and lose track of time watching one video after another on TikTok.

I faced down three attackers in my living room last night.

The site PlayPhrase is wild.

A few weeks ago we had our driveway repaved.

Phineas Gage was a railroad construction foreman in the mid-1800s who miraculously survived a blasting accident that drove an iron rod straight through his skull.

Two thousand companies and three hundred billion dollars of market cap.

After years of struggling to lose weight, I’ve lost 30 pounds this year.

The Story On Sunday October 4, 2020 I came upon a reddit post in the subreddit /r/NoStupidQuestions with the title How does this user post so many large, deep posts so rapidly?

So far this year I’ve lost 17 pounds towards my goal of losing 20 pounds in the year 2020.

The wonderful YouTuber 3Blue1Brown creates lavishly illustrated videos about Math, check out his recent one on exponentials and the spread of the coronavirus.

I was supposed to run a five-mile race this morning, but it snowed overnight and it was starting to get icy.

Pay attention to something in the world, like your breath.

Most people sense that if you text while driving then your driving will be compromised.

I’ve been writing this blog for 10 years, and writing code for more than 30 years.

There are two concepts that come up frequently in science and engineering, they are precision and accuracy.

Weight Watchers has the notion of “zero point foods” which are things like skinless chicken breast or soy yogurt.

Jeff Bezos is currently the richest man in the world, clocking in with a net worth over $90 billion.

It was three in the morning and Edward was lying on his back with his head dangling off the wrong end of his mattress.

Sam Harris’s book Waking Up argues convincingly and eloquently that the potential benefits of meditation are legion.

I started meditating just over a year ago and I would like to share my experience.

Something has always bugged me about voting: in essentially all big elections the outcome is not decided by a single vote.

Atom’s head thwacked into something hard which generated a percussive metallic rattle.

Below are two depictions of Kobe Bryant.

The Cell The world’s first artificial superintelligence blinked into existence in a pristine and uniformly lit subterranean datacenter in the former Bingham Canyon mine in Utah at exactly 4:15am local time on July 17th during the broiling summer of 2025.

10,000 years ago two scruffy fragrant people drifted away from their campfires to gaze up at the stars.

The Game Developers Conference was held last March in San Francisco.

Yiren Lu wrote a long piece in the New York Times Magazine about the contrast between the young engineers in Silicon Valley today and those of yesteryear.

Suppose you were to sneak into a datacenter run by Google or Facebook or Twitter and take a pickaxe to a random server.

I will kick things up a notch on this blog with a salacious admission from my personal life: I love the Katy Perry song Firework.

One morning my 3½ year old son was still rubbing the sleep out of his eyes when he asked to play a game.

There’s a Philosophy professor at Oxford who maintains an online shrine dedicated to a single question.

If you vote in the midterm election on November 2nd it is virtually certain that your vote will not change the outcome.

The Need for Speed racing game franchise has been around for 16 years, sold over 100 million copies and generated more than $2.7B in revenue.

Intel 8088 In 1981 the original IBM PC was released.