Passengers (2016) And the Pursuit Of Realism
Simple story? Maybe. But in terms of science and design, Passengers really does have something worth noting.
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Writing adventures and related musings.
Ai on the stock market – Babak Hodjat and the death of the stockbroker
The computer scientists are coming for Wall Street.
The ripple effects of writing
When I was a child, I wanted to be an author. Unfortunately, my father, who was a smart man, took me aside and said to me, “Son, you might enjoy reading, but you’re never going to make money writing.” Now, years later, I’ve proven him wrong, but he had a point. The world was changing. This was the 90s: in the course of the next two decades, cell phones invade… Read More »The ripple effects of writing
Our Facebook newsfeeds can be better than RSS readers ever were
Like many others, I used to get up in the morning and check my RSS feeds. It didn’t matter where these feeds were. I always had them on call. Now I get up in the morning and check my Facebook. And there we are: the daily dose of politics, courtesy of NYT, Al-Jazeera, the Daily Mirror, Colombo Telegraph. The best of Techcrunch and Wired. A dose of the Anti-Media. A… Read More »Our Facebook newsfeeds can be better than RSS readers ever were
Timebox, Don’t Multitask.
I, like most people, can’t multi-task for shit. I had a boss who could multi-task to the level where most of us thought he was insane, or had severe ADHD, or both. His work day, as far as I could see, was a furious flutter of phone calls and scribbled notes. Occasionally someone would drop by at his summons and stand there looking like a fool while waiting for the… Read More »Timebox, Don’t Multitask.