Category: Computers
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AI is not going to take over just yet
I wish I had blogged about this then, but I didn’t. Here’s an article from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) about how 2017 is going to be the year of the self-driving car. I would bet a dollar than no one reading this in 2023 has a fully self-driving car. I would…
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Design details
I just moved into a new house. Much of the furniture from my old apartment didn’t really fit in the new place, so I ended up getting quite a bit of new stuff. Actually, my wife and I mostly got new-to-us used vintage furniture, mostly very cheap. We have been scouring the local classifieds for…
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WordCamp Europe
Last week I was in Porto, Portugal for WordCamp Europe. It was my first time at a big WordCamp, and my first time in Porto. I wasn’t expecting that I would get much time for sightseeing, and I was right. I spent almost all of my time either at the conference center or out with…
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Thinking, waiting, fasting
Several months ago I re-read the book Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse. I had read it in my first-year tutorial in college back in 1997 (an English translation), and decided after 25 years, I would read the original in German. I didn’t remember too many details from my previous read, but I did remember the general…
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Are emoji ruining communication?*
If you are a close friend of mine, you’ll likely know that I don’t like emoji. I know that I am in the minority opinion on this topic, so I don’t often bring it up, because I don’t foresee it being very useful or making me popular. However, I recently owned up to it at…