What I don’t like about academia — aside from the low pay!In academia, researchers work hard to expand the frontiers of human knowledge and to understand our world better. Unfortunately, the hard…Apr 19Apr 19
30 questions to ask before diving into bioinformaticsI have spent my youth learning about programming, other related topics, and some random skills. So I did not learn much about biology and…Jan 24Jan 24
How I Made ChatGPT My Wise Life CoachOne of the elements often overlooked in working with Generative AI models is the need for cultural and personal alignment with our AI…Jul 24, 2023Jul 24, 2023
A coding question from generative AI: ChatGPT (3.5 and 4) vs. Bard vs. Bing ChatWriting the initial drafts of code with generative models is awesome! However, how do they handle questions that are not related to data…Mar 29, 2023Mar 29, 2023
Esperanto Speakers: No Significant Change in NumbersI wanted to know whether the number of Esperanto speakers is growing or shrinking and found a Linguistic StackExchange post by Alexander…Feb 20, 2023Feb 20, 2023
Remarkable 2: Screen sharing without having a subscriptionI never could use Remarkable’s built-in screen sharing, even when I had a Connect subscription. Then I found goMarkableStream by Olivier…Jun 22, 20222Jun 22, 20222
Can Artificial Intelligence rule or defeat humans by itself?TLDR: No! But authoritarians use AI to build controllable destructive or policing machines.Mar 18, 2022Mar 18, 2022
Extensible Mac and Windows Applications I use every dayExtensibility is a system/software design principle that lets users add new features to the software. Adding new features to existing…Dec 27, 2021Dec 27, 2021
An Information-Rich World #1Facts are lawful if certain of them can be predicted from certain others. We need store only the fraction needed to predict the rest. This…Oct 22, 2017Oct 22, 2017