Hi! I write about my life. My interests are writing, art, and some armchair philosophy. Have comments or suggestions? Feel free to leave a message in the gue...
I had an AI training session at work today. They talked about how AI might seem new but it was invented in the 60s. They showed us old photos of men and women standing next to computers, a picture of Alan Turing, some moving graphs, and finally a logo of Anthropic. I sat through 40 minutes of them talking about Generative AI or Gen AI (not to be confused with Gen Z, they chuckle). They talked…
The problem with philosophical arguments is that they work great only in theory. There’s the Ship of Theseus that the Athenians preserved to honor the God Apollo. Every year they would send someone in the ship to please the god. Did Apollo recognize the ship as Theseus’ original ship? Or did he smite his followers because they sent the wrong ship? If we assume that Apollo is a fixed point of…
Like every other software company these days, my company has been pushing all of us to use AI for everything. Don’t write code, let AI do it. Don’t message each other, let AI do it. Don’t think, just let AI do it. From what I can tell this has divided people into different factions. There’s a group of really smart engineers who use AI as a glorified search feature, maybe sometimes use it to help…
I read the Tintin comics when I was 7. I loved the yellow coat he wore so much, I pestered my parents to get me one. Sadly they didn’t make long yellow coats for 7 year olds, the best they could do was buy me a raincoat. Which I wore every day in the Summer. I read The Famous Five and the Secret Seven when I was 9. I was so jealous of these groups. My only friend was my cousin I’d hang out with…
I used to write a lot growing up. I’d write poems about the things I loved. Like pigeons. And tamarind candy. I’d make up stories about the bus driver, about this boy I saw in school always eating alone. I’d created a personality through writing. I would view the world around me like Sir David Attenborough. Commenting on the comings and goings of the ones around me. It was so fun. But then life…
I love dark themes. All the software I use, is in dark mode, I have an extension that adds dark mode to every website I vist. Which is why, the first thing I did when setting up this blog was to create a dark mode theme that I loved. I spent hours on coolors trying to find the thing that looked the coolest, the sleekest. This blog is new and I kinda want to find people like me through this…
I’m sure you’ve had a moment in life when you realized you existed. That you were a person, in a world with other persons, with moral and ethical implications for all of your actions. When you felt the unbearable heaviness of living. For me that moment was when I came across this Greek bloke called Socrates . Socrates was put on trial for being a rabblerouser of the greek youth, infecting them…
How often do we make the fun choice? I work in tech, and everything is supposed to be logical, all the tradeoffs need to get discussed, elbows need to get greased, and AIs get consulted etc etc. People always talk about taking the boring route because boring is good. For whom? You want to log into work, spend 8 hours just looking at boring foundations and adding a small brick to the great boring…
Every where I look, there’s something bad going on. There’s people taking more and more from the world, there’s people struggling but there’s no one helping them. There's people distrusting each other because they aren’t the same as them. Some people believe in religion. That god will rise again and take care of us. That he will smite the evil and gift the Earth to the meek. And that they will be…
Hi everyone I'm doodh. I love going on long rants about life and my lone friend got sick of it and suggested I blog so I'd find some new friends that could relate to what I'm saying. What can you expect here? Who knows. Life seems to change every weekend and it feels like we're all starting from scratch every couple of days. Why did I call this blog doodhpeda? Just cos. I love doodhpeda, I think…