A friend approaches you and says something unexpected. 'I quit my job'. 'I am going to Madagascar'. 'I've been to Las Vegas last night'. 'I am relocating to Mars'. Stunned, you don't know how to react. But they eagerly expect a reaction. What do you say?
A masterpiece from Daniel Benmergui that you should play even if you are not a gamer, why 17 is a large number, 3 blogs you want to read, and more.
Tomorrow there is a local election in Denmark. The ballots are notoriously large here (I know people shorter than the ballots). 98% of the candidate posters are “A generic face with a name and party logo”, and most don’t even have a single slogan line, making it impossible to distinguish between them. It has always been hard to pick your candidate, so hard that news websites make quizzes to find your matching candidates. But this time is different, because it is the first post-ChatGPT election. And people do EVERYTHING in ChatGPT nowadays. How many people, do you think, chose the candidate by asking ChatGPT? I bet the number is not zero. And what impact is it going to have on the results?
They say that we must read any books that give us pleasure, no matter how silly or weird the books are. Just to develop a habit of reading being a pleasurable experience...
Ever since Sonnet 3.7 came out, I have no doubt that the software engineer job (and thus, the job market) will change. I sincerely believe that in two years...
“SQLite does not compete with client/server databases. SQLite competes with fopen().”
Banning AI research and AI companies because they might be dangerous is like banning surgery hospitals and private clinics because “People with knives cutting other people can’t be a good thing”.
We will eat any food, it is just the matter of how we cook it. Are you never going to eat olives in any form? What about olive oil?
1998 is a year, but 19.99 is a price tag.
The years 2021-2029 sound to me like James Bond introducing himself. “Name’s Twenty. Twenty Five.”
The best gift I got for this Christmas is the teapot for making tea that has thermal insulation, and thus I can now make a tea, forget about it for 2 hour, and still have a cup of warm tea.
Everyone tolerates people staring at their smartphones during lectures/events. Even though they are obviously not having any emergency, but scrolling some feed.
Everyone tolerates people using laptops at the events. Even though they are obviously not taking notes, but side-channelling some work.
But try taking a book out to quietly read…
You can’t say “No” to an open bottle of wine because it comes from “Yes"terday.
To Boldly Space Where no One has Before
Do you think a space (as a text symbol, as a " “) should be the same width in the text whether it is a “bold text”, an “italic text”, or a “plain text”, for consistency? Or should it be wider in the bold case and the italic case, to accommodate for the extra heaviness or tilt? 🤔
Santa, to Cash Register
Just heard from the loudspeaker, while waiting at the checkout line:
🎵 Santa, baby… An employee to checkouts! 🎵 hurry down that chimney tonight
Filter bubbles cause funny interactions. My girlfriend saw me reading a book “The Mythical Man-Month” that she never heard about before. So, we asked our friends around, what they think this book is about.
We got two types of answers:
Both ideas are funnier than the reality - that this is a book about software project leadership and time estimation (in man-months).
Everything stays on the Internet forever.
In the summer of 2012, I presented my research project about amyloid beta at my university’s conference.
Today, 12 years later, I received an email asking about this project.
Jealousy is when you don’t want me to have it. Envy is when you want to have the same.
“A scientific theory is nothing but a fairytale with the human-like characters replaced by even more magical ones”
Adult (noun) - a person capable of making rational decisions… sometimes
30 years ago, people had to memorize everything they had learnt.
15 years ago, the Internet gave us instant access to all the knowledge, so memorizing fell out of fashion.
Today, we again must memorize, as things on the Internet can no longer be deemed trustworthy.
