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Technical debt can now be generated at machine speed. -- Muhammad Rafi, Professor at National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences-FAST, " I really miss coding the way I used to in the old days " on the use of AI in software development, via LinkedIn (14 August 2026)
To the dismay of paleontologists and researchers in the field, a Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton set a record after being auctioned at Sotheby's for $50.1 million. It's the latest in a trend that turns scientific specimens and artifacts into collector's items for the uber-wealthy, a trend that has been largely condemned by the people who want to keep these fossil records out of the luxury collectibles…
Let's just take it from the perspective of the parent why this is a -- why this is just a stupid thing to do. Now, instead of your child getting two shots, she has to get six shots. Instead of ... you missing work to take your child to the doctor two times, you're doing it six times, and instead of the insurance company paying for two visits, it's now paying for six visits. Now this is going to…
Strictly speaking, there are no enlightened people, there is only enlightened activity. -- Shunryu Suzuki (1904 - 1971). Sōtō Zen monk and teacher who helped popularize Zen Buddhism in the United States, quoted in Zen Millionaire : The Investor's Guide to the "Other Side" (2007) by Paul B. Farrell
How much does one imagine, how much observe? One can no more separate those functions than divide light from air, or wetness from water. -- Elspeth Joscelin Huxley CBE (1907 - 1997), English writer, magistrate, and government adviser, The Flame Trees of Thika (1959) Ch. 15
It's easy to conflate technology problems with capitalism problems. Back in 2021, science-fiction writer and AI commentator Ted Chiang said that "most fears about AI are best understood as fears about capitalism." It's not the tech per se; it's who controls it and how it could be used against us. Imagine an AI assistant for a doctor. We can imagine it affecting the profession in one of two ways.…
Genius is nothing else than a great aptitude for patience. -- Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (1707 - 1788), French naturalist, mathematician, cosmologist, and author, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together. -- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742 - 1799), German scientist, satirist, and philosopher, Aphorisms (1779-1788)
I have no right to coerce someone else, because I cannot be sure that I'm right and he is wrong. -- Milton Friedman (1912 - 2006), American economist, "Say 'No' to Intolerance", Liberty magazine, vol. 4, no. 6, (July 1991) pp. 17-20
I do a lot of my best thinking in those kind of in-between moments that people now fill with online activity. -- Christopher Nolan CBE (1970 -), British-American film director, producer, and screenwriter, "Christopher Nolan explains why he doesn't have a smartphone" at People.com (15 July 2023)
