Blog Archive

The Art of Transformation

In a sense, we are no more than the machines we create. We see, measure, evaluate, and predict the world through them, in a way that they form our extra senses.

Movie Script

In the movie The Lives of Others, we follow a spy in 1984 East Berlin, conducting surveillance on a writer and his lover.

In search of presence

What does it mean to be present nowadays? I'm with my son in the apartment, struggling to be present and listen to him read a story. I'm physically present but not really there.

Angel or Duke?

I have a friend who lives in an apartment with shelves full of books and walls covered with photographs of friends.

Who can protect us from the protectors?

A young undergraduate student discovered a different and faster hash table. Beyond the interesting story in Quanta Magazine, this example reveals another point...

Could Humans Exist Outside the Loop?

There's a common expression, especially in the context of AI—'human in the loop.' This refers to human feedback given to otherwise autonomous systems that complete a task. Humans are added as an extra measure of precaution, to verify the outcome, or to help the system improve through feedback.

Pointers, hash tables, and trying to navigate in a new era

A young undergraduate student discovered a different and faster hash table. Beyond the interesting story in Quanta Magazine, this example reveals another point...

AI: The Magician's Hand

AI is all about data. Big data initiated this wave of technological investment in machine learning, which was later branded as AI systems and architectures. It's truly impressive when one considers the amount of data we—as a network-connected humanity—produce, either firsthand or with the help of algorithmic or more 'intelligent' systems.