Some bad takes from the internet

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...

Flashback to simpler times

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...

Opening a Time Capsule from 1996

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...

Genius 5 - A browser-based 'analog' synth

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...

Triviality tests and the sycophancy problem

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...

Software 2.5, Software 3.0 and Software 3.5

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...

Thinking? What thinking?

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...

I made a casual math game

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...

Back Back Back

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...