Matthew Gaudet

The software field is in a knot-twist about AI; but the people who are doing some of the best thinking about the impacts of AI are mathematicians.

Doesn’t this post feel familiar?

This is going to shock a lot of the ‘people’ who are ending up in my spam, but, I don’t run an auto shop I don’t provide services to RV owners I am not trying to grow my business I am not chasing leads I am not drowning in paperwork I’m used to spam, but…

Just a while ago I finished reading “Freshly Remember’d: Kirk Drift”, an essay whose basic premise is that the womanizing callous “manly man” vision of Captain Kirk of Star Trek is an ahistorical toxic revisionist view.

A few months ago I lost my Kobo Libra H2O during a long trip.

This is one of the coolest projects I’ve seen in ages: A tiny mechanical Television — with the incredible resolution of 4906x20 produced purely with 5 LEDs and a spinning drum with holes in it.

What a very fun show with a very charismatic performer.

We have a referendum coming up in Alberta.

I had a friend who smoked when I was in my twenties.

This turns out to be almost exactly the one year anniversary of me writing a letter of gratitude to a blogger whose work I really appreciate.

In 2019 I wrote the kinder gentler version of this blog post.

If you still haven’t encountered Angine de Poitrine, do yourself a favour and take a few minutes to watch the first 3 minutes of this.

This video was a fascinating watch.

This is mostly a blog post for my own reference.

For the last 8 months or so I’ve taken up bouldering; the indoor climbing-sans-rope sport.

Reasons to go see Project Hail Mary A faithful adaption of a well loved book.

About a month ago I got my ZSA Navigator, and have been using it every work day since, so I thought I would leave some semi-structured thoughts at this point.

Hyperlinks are important.

I’ve recently finished reading the cozy fantasy novel Can’t Spell Treason Without Tea.

I just finished Nana Visitor’s book.

I’m in a bit of a summer lull with guitar.

I really hate the term prosperity — no one means the same thing when they say it, and a heck of a lot of people think it means “I’m gonna be a {million,billion,trillion}aire”.

Just sent this letter to the ministers of the environment for Canada and Alberta, as well to the Minister of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Innovation.