Some recent scribblings..
DALL-E - Your Kid's Directed Drawing Will Never Be The Same
DALL-E has been taking corners of the computer science community and the internet by storm. People are dropping their jaws with exactly what it can do. It hasn’t exactly made many big-time news…
August 01, 2022We Are All Cyborgs
Table of Contents Cyborgs On The Toilet Connected and Disconnected No GPS Real Risk Recorded and Private Preference Falsification Consensus Identity Relationships and Audience Democratization and…
June 06, 2022WLI5
My five year old daughter is obsessed with her letters, so she sits down often to do some writing or doodling on scraps of paper. She picks up her pen and starts pulling it down the page in what she…
February 09, 2022Hyperbolic Discounting and Cashflow
Hyperbolic Discounting Back in 1970, a couple of Stanford psychologists conducted an interesting little experiment. They took young children into an empty room and showed them a treat on the table…
January 25, 2022Constraints For Kids
A couple months ago, Elon Musk got called out for the sin of being so successful that 2% of his wealth would supposedly solve world hunger. In typical Elon fashion, he responded directly. As one…
January 09, 2022China and Incommensurability
I’ve never really understood China, so I’m reading a book about China. It’s called The Hundred Year Marathon and it’s opened my eyes to quite a lot so far. In particular, it’s clear that I’ve never…
January 06, 2022