Published in Dialogue & Discourse·21 hours agoMember-onlyLessons on Artificial Intelligence appreciation via Gutenberg’s intelligent replication of manuscriptsI am taken aback by the unexpected popularity of an anthology of quotes from Cunk on Earth, which I shared here. Cunk On Earth: A True Masterpiece On History Narration Netflix started streaming “Cunk on Earth”: A true masterpiece I urge you to “lie back and take it” as Philomena Cunk…medium.com As research on Gutenberg and the Printing Press means a lot to me, a kind of guilt crept in… “What if all those people who laughed with Philomena took…Printing5 min readPrinting5 min read
Published in Predict·Mar 19Member-onlyAn AI Ethics Paradox: The censorship of explicit “reverse engineering” requests by GPT-4.Intrigued by the launch of “AI for the masses” as it ignores the fact that sapience/human progress presupposes “reverse-engineering”, imitation and -at times- mutation. Recently, I was granted access to Bing’s latest GPT-4 powered chat box and tried to test its behavior in the topic where I am making my…AI9 min readAI9 min read
Published in Predict·Mar 18Member-onlyDavid Brin’s Essential (mostly neglected) Questions and Answers About Artificial IntelligenceAbout this article: In due process of dealing with recent Facebook hacking attacks, I shared to my dear friend David Brin, a letter to CISA’s Director, Jen Easterly. David’s response to me included this essay on AI. Enjoy! Special Note: Any income generated by the views of the members of Medium will be…AI19 min readAI19 min read
Published in Predict·Feb 27Member-onlyDealing with the latest Facebook hack by the Chinese: “Võ Hoài Linh”My Facebook identity became a victim of the latest waves of attacks; a certain someone “Võ Hoài Linh” (a Vietnamese-American comedian this is) took over my profile and Facebook opted to permanently disable my account automatically (as it appears that the victims violate their policy of impersonating a famous user). …Facebook7 min readFacebook7 min read
Published in Dialogue & Discourse·Feb 8Member-onlyCunk On Earth: A True Masterpiece On History NarrationNetflix started streaming “Cunk on Earth”: A true masterpiece I urge you to “lie back and take it” as Philomena Cunk herself would have put it Watch Cunk On Earth | Netflix Official Site Philomena Cunk is here to show how far humanity has come - or not - in this witty mockumentary tracing the history of…www.netflix.com Here follows a short list of gems I found fascinating and thoroughly enjoyable to give you an idea of the style of this unique…Netflix4 min readNetflix4 min read
Dec 12, 2022Member-only8 things you need to read about hi-fi audio before you start listening to adviceCredits: I know, I know… they usually go to the very end. But, what you will read here I owe it to my Uni flatmate Joel Benford, my teacher of (2nd year) analogue electornics (and designer of QUAD’s first Integrated Amplifier) Prof. Bob Wilson and the sales people at Audio-T…Audio11 min readAudio11 min read
Published in Dialogue & Discourse·Nov 25, 2022Member-onlyEstimating the true value of TwitterSpoiler Alert: Elon Musk has already profited from the Tweeter transaction (knowledge of elementary arithmetic required) In the past few days many started to draw parallels of the Tweeter transaction with other failings during the excesses of the dot.com era (AOL, Tumblr etc.) and look forward to see it becoming the worse investment Elon ever made. …Twitter7 min readTwitter7 min read
Published in AWS in Plain English·Jul 21, 2022Member-onlyOptimizing DB storage and file system in a Woocommerce e-shop with 4,000,000 imagesYou’ve just been landed with an e-shop project with 200k-1M products. You worry if Woo is up to the task. Read this and fear not! — I had just completed an eshop with 10k products/50 attributes that had achieved 100% GT Metrix score, 91% on Pingdom, >80 in mobile Google pagespeed (99% on desktop) and was relaxing observing an increase in its sales by over 150% in the first couple of months since it went live…WordPress9 min readWordPress9 min read
Published in Predict·May 14, 2022Member-onlyThe days of war in Ukraine: Five lessons in minimizing the impact of avoidable conflictsSince the start of the invasion of Ukraine I am trying to make sense of the war effort by following the Russian propaganda; thus, I have focused on the available — at times obscure — sources of our adversaries. From RIA-Novosti to various obscure bloggers reporting the “successes” of the…Ukraine18 min readUkraine18 min read
Published in Predict·Apr 6, 2022Member-onlyApple TV’s Severance is not a “workplace thriller” set in a dystopian future. It is about our life, today.Oftentimes, exaggerated metaphors make us lose perspective, relevance, and, even, meaning. But don’t make this mistake while watching Severance. If you haven’t -yet- heard about this great show you can read an introduction here: If I May Suggest: ‘Severance’ on Apple TV+ ‘The Office,’ but terrifyingmedium.com Rest assured that this show is well worth your time. At first appearance, the show has…Apple3 min readApple3 min read
