I am happy to see a whole ecosystem of blogs growing up again. Here's an interesting compendium of ideas: What I Did Not Learn About Writing In School I was surprised to learn that they didn’t start writing with any topics in mind. They just wrote a piece on something they found interesting. Then another. … Continue reading Yet another motivation post on writing →

This is an interesting take here: AMD CEO: The Next Challenge Is Energy Efficiency - IEEE Spectrum Despite a slowdown of Moore’s Law, other factors have pushed mainstream computing capabilities to double about every two and a half years. For supercomputers, the doubling is happening even faster. However, Su pointed out, the energy efficiency of … Continue reading Energy efficiency in the CPU’s →

Interesting perspective here: CheatGPT For a long time, I've been wondering aloud how higher education is going to deal with the sophistication of ChatGPT, Copilot, and other AI tools.  Well, wonder no longer, because this is where I live now. "Dave, you're making assumptions.  Can you prove any of this?"  I can, actually, since some … Continue reading When Chat becomes cheat →

I am linking it here because I liked it. Creation happens in silence | Jose M. Whatever you’re working on only exists in a vacuum until you publish it. And you might be full of doubts. Will it work? Will it be useful for someone? Will people like it? Am I crazy for doing this? … Continue reading Creating in silence →