This is my personal web page where I like to mulldump on computing, science, philosophy and whatever else I feel like but mostly end up rubberducking myself.
It can be argued that the divestiture of the bell system in the 80s eventually led to the collapse of the investment into r&d/bell labs being a beneficial thing because it paved the way for the internet to grow (laid the transoceanic infra), in turn led to products over big science—now we just have multiple monoliths overseeing each other it seems, but we’re also missing the elephant who being…
Some of the montage sequences during the initial acts are just sheer inspiration and i couldn’t but stare in awe at it. The screenplay also proves to be quite fluid with its seamless flow between non chronological scenes it intercuts between and the editing deserves all the praise it can get, nolan has employed his past experience put it to good use as he plays with the diegesis of two timelines,…
Humanities people should really learn at least one STEM subject so that they can actually properly grasp that abstraction depth is a thing that really exists and not everything is about near-universal human experiences.— David R. MacIver (@DRMacIver) August 2, 2023
I’ve always liked books. But who would’ve thought it would become an unhealthy obsession too? and it’s not just that i love to collect these books, not for their covers no, i like the words in them too. In this essay i will. If ever there was a metaphor hiding in these amassed wealth of knnowledge and subjective lived experience of the world just sitting in here i fear i might have been blind to…
The biggest flaw about something profoundly adroit like gpt3 is that it is artificial, in nature inherent and in operation, it doesn’t have a mind of its own, it doesn’t have feelings or emotions, no memories experiencing the pain and suffering we forbear, no thoughts or authenticity of its own, no genuine empathy felt towards itself or its fellow being, it is just a chameleon robot designed to…
The computer expects the instructions conducted in the manner it was designed to receive it expects the algorithms to be aligned in their stylistic way and expects the logical flow to be sequential and expects the rules and regulations and models of the language we’re interacting with it to be followed to the teeth. It cannot run it won’t run it will simply refuse to obey our commands if they…
There seems to be with nature and our bodies a proportional and a disproportional component—inversely proportional—binary parameters, a dualistic nature to this zero-sum game—a dichotomy between the relationships between the governing chemicals and factors in the coordinated system, where taking one substance either ups one thing and decreases the involvement of the other; we’re caught in the…
excerpt from an upcoming work in progress
$${\rm I}$$ A tranquil silence remains lingering in the air interspersed between tweets and chirps. Days cycle by like clockwork over the marginally arid land, bringing no respite to the soil thirsty for some hydration, trees stretch their splaying roots along their boundaries but are disdainfully stopped in their tracks by concoctions of concrete and metal woefully restraining the flora from…
Fuck, am I old? Part of me agrees, and it is true. I don’t like to write about personal things, the ones I do only have access to my eyes, but certain things bother you more than others which seem trivial. Getting and accepting that you’re old is arduous, something I have failed and refused to acknowledge since I turned like uh 20. So mentally I refused to come to terms with any age greater than…