You’re here because you know something. What you know you can’t explain, but you feel it. You’ve felt it your entire life, that there’s something wrong with the world.
— Morpheus, The Matrix
A while ago, I got all excited around the idea of Bitcoin as art . It was such a satisfying perspective that I decided to embrace it and implement a tipping service on the Bitcoin Testnet for this website. A fun experiment, a way to learn something and tinker around with the technology. The best part was: it somehow didn’t require any maintenance. It would work without further tinkering.
There is nothing like the filter of time. When a book from 1850 receives praise, you know its insight is timeless and its quality undeniable. This essay discusses what the law should be and shows the tragedy of what it has become. The content still relevant today, reminds us of how the more things change, the more they stay the same.
Web development is the skill that irritates me the most. It has improved over the years. The tools available today are far superior. But, I only glimpse at better web design skills. I often times struggle to understand why some websites look the way they do. Even with full access to their source code, replicating them isn’t always evident. There are HTML & CSS tricks I refuse to practice in the aim of simplifying what I imitate. That means some layouts don’t look exactly the same.
A technology survives as long as it serves a solution in a better way than the problems it adds. Digitization has evolved from interesting to crucial in only a few decades. Artificial Intelligence shall experience an even faster adoption and challenges us to form opinions about things we didn’t grow up with and don’t always understand so well. That accompanies our move towards new regulation with panic, a rush for easy answers and inadvertence to complexities at hand.
From political candidates to job-seekers, humans under selection pressure often try to gain opportunities by hiding their true motivations. They present themselves as more aligned with the expectations of their audience than they actually are. If an AI system learned such a deceptive strategy, could we detect it and remove it using current safety training techniques?
This is NOT a talk about how AI could take over the world and enslave humans, enough dramatic news, policies, and sci-fi novels tell that story. But there are still many ramifications from our use of technology. From the very way we record and distribute knowledge into society to how we actively use and maintain available technologies.
Various projects in the blockchain space, particularly around the Cardano ecosystem. It includes the Emacs extension cardano.el, a web service to edit transactions with your web wallet and some documentation efforts.
Org-mode backend exporters for generating a Curriculum Vita using some \(\LaTeX\) templates, or exporting to markdown for your hugo blog.
Sphinx-Gallery is a Sphinx extension that builds an HTML gallery of examples from any set of Python scripts.