Tag: pensata
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Fonts and Spreadsheets
I’m working on a hobby project of building a “Mathematics applied to Finance” course. That means using a spreadsheet to build basic business finance scenarios without using any functions but formulas with the typical addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division operations. Yes, old school. As I was working on the spreadsheet with some examples, I decided…
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I know the AI I don’t want
I don’t know the AI that I want. I prefer to wait for a big surprise. I’m assuming it’s going to be a very positive one. I know for sure the AI I don’t want. I’ve got to the conclusion after not much thinking about it. I don’t want an AI that makes tyrants intelligent.…
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Words and Maturity
Words are very powerful symbols. Sentences? Even more so. It takes courage to write in public when maturity arrives. Your words can provoke ideas and judgments from others. Judgments from others, if also made public, can test your maturity and your ability to accept them. Images and symbols are not as straightforward as words. At…
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Pinterest for Breakfast
There’s nothing better than starting the day with a few minutes on Pinterest. An endless stream of images curated by an algorithm that has been trained to satisfy you. You’ll only see topics of your interest. It’s perfect. News? They’re basically lies that make up a big global psyops movement. The only news worth look…
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Every person on the planet should have their own website
Amin Eftegarie makes an excellent point on personal websites and Archive.org — that once you publish something online, there are good chances that it would become eternally available via Archive.org. On the other hand, content you publish inside walled gardens like social media may vanish after a handful of years of account activity or be…
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Tell me what you don’t know
People on LinkedIn are now posting badges like crazy. Any micro 1h online course will offer its participants a completion badge. So I’m seeing things like “Congratulate this person for his/her new badge: How to say ‘hi’ to people in the morning” No, I’m not exaggerating. I’m seeing this at that level of granularity. It…
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ChatGPT is an Alchemist
I’m 50% through The Alchemist right now. The last time I read it was more than 20 years ago. One of the discussions between the young traveller and the English man was about the fact that gold would start losing its value if alchemy turned to be simple. It was a hard practice to understand.…
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GPT Wars
People are using ChatGPT to automate the publication of comments and replies to Twitter posts. So far, only a handful of smart tech-savvy early-adopters was able to build that mechanism. On the other side of the street is the rest of us still typing things out of our own heads. Once we all have GPT…
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Analog Transformation
At the moment I am writing this there are dozens of new discussions on A.I. that I am not part of. I am away from those discussions but, at the same time, I know very well what is at their core: disruption, change, transformation etc. Artificial Intelligence is synonymous to radical digital transformation. Fair enough.…
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“First-world problem”
I like Oliver Burkeman’s definition on his essay “Treat your to-read pile like a river, not a bucket” for what he calls a first-world problem: people concerned about not being able to keep up with their ever growing reading/listening/watching backlog. I agree with him. A lot of people get so nervous about information inflow, which…