Category: essay

This is the story of why the current AI boom was inevitable from the very core of engineering and information technology. If you think about it, AI was inevitable, it all boiled down to having an underlying system supporting faster development. It began a long time ago, in a time when engineers were designing physical…

Did you see the white round, shapeless robot that is cleaning, teaching or just thinking? Or the holographic supernova of a brain and head mixed in the supersonic blueness? I was wondering why all AI visualizations were so similar, this is my discovery of the topic. This image is the main visual for the wikipedia…

You might have heard that monkey see, monkey do. In reality monkey only does if they see the why. A not-so-recent experiment showed that overimitation in humans is quite prevalent. More on this in this article by the New York Times. In this research children were shown a complicated contraption and a long process on…

Uncle Bob has this punchline: “Software” is a compound word = “soft” (changeable) + “ware” (product). “If it’s hard to change, you have just reinvented Hardware.” Uncle Bob means soft as a virtue, the kind you earn. Code stays changeable because someone had the discipline to keep it that way. Which is where my train…