It's all about risks The maker of Keras argues that nothing has changed in SaaS Here's what's wrong in the argument - it's a contorted form of survivor bias. It's absolutely true that for any succesful SaaS concept, the original investment has...
Just found this old post on Wired from way back when I presented Imity to the world at Where 2.0 in San Jose. Imity was Bluetooth wardriving as social network. We built a social experience around each BTId conceiving of it as a 'location' (a...
While cleaning up my bookshelves I came across this amazing time capsule from 1996 - Reality Check a collection of predictions about the future from Wired's network of experts. A 30 year old time capsule! How lucky does one get to be - I'm going...
During christmas I started vibe-building a synthesizer in the browser. I wanted to build a thing that could play the famous hook from Genius of Love by Tom Tom Club - which originally was played on a Prophet 5. It's not a sample player it's a...
Maybe you're familiar with the concept of a triviality test in political debate. It's really simple - it involves asking yourself the question: Would anyone disagree with this? Think about a mayor claiming that "I want to make this city great" -...
A couple of weeks ago Andrej Karpathy generated a ton of buzz with a talk where he presented the idea of Software 3.0 - describing LLMs as the next revolution of computers and programming itself - the transition from programming language-driven...
Do machines think? The Large Language Model (LLM) revolution in AI has shifted the debate on whether machines can even think from what it used to be. 10 years ago the difference in capability between human beings and AI were extremely visible -...
Why isn't the learning fun in edu-games? My daughter is learning arithmetic.. and in this day an age that means also training a lot in a bunch of math games the teachers use to keep the children at it. Most - all - of these games are a little...
We are so back The internet is dying. SoMe is dying. What AI doesn't kill horrible politics and worse owners does - so it's time to circle the wagons and roll back to an internet we liked. We're going to lose some of the normals along the way -...