My Most Irrational, Bizarre Interest

Although I try not to talk often about it, I have an unhealthy obsession with pueling. Is it useful in everyday life? No, absolutely not. Do I need it in my professional life? Also, absolutely not. But I nonetheless find it incredibly interesting for absolutely no reason.  Take, for instance, the historical underpinnings of pueling.

Art Will Never End

If you think that AI will outwrite all of us, you’re almost correct. Personally, I dislike all of these writing assistants, and any technology that purports to automate writing, because they streamline it all to sound almost exactly the same: Neutral, lifeless, generic and efficient. Okay, yeah, it’s what everyone is aiming for whenever they

Humans won’t be replaced

With ChatGPT and Stable diffusion we have gotten a taste of what AI is capable of doing, not that we necessarily didn’t know this before; We simply experienced it for the first time.  The question to ask at this stage isn’t what ChaptGPT can do, but instead, what isn’t it able to do? It is

Effortless Contributions: Computers, Environment, and Social Causes

“The biggest problem the Eurocentric world is facing right now is…” is a sentence with no valid ending to it. Every contribution has its costs, and far far, far down on the list is Green Software. Still, there is no reason that we cannot implement some basic measures to curb climate change, especially if it

An Overview of All Computer History

Though proto-computer science has its roots back in Babylonian times, the general idea behind a working computer did not emerge until the 17th and 18th centuries with mechanical calculators and a mechanized loom, respectively. After that, the first computer was designed in the early 19th century, but was never built, and its idea was very much still

A Letter to Friends

Dear friends, Soon, our lives won’t ever cross again. I say this with some sadness… Though we may still be friends, we have since grown into middle-aged adults who have become more and more comfortable in their own skin, protective of our time. I know for a fact that many of us right now are

The Ultimate High-Fantasy World

During my Bachelor’s degree, I got sucked into a series by the name of The Malazan Book of the Fallen. It spanned around 10’000 pages of blistering magic, rambunctious characters with a plot so dementedly wide, it left canyons full of unanswered or unexplored questions. Not only this, but the writers supplemented the series with

The Real Reasons for School Shootings

When I told my friend that I will be visiting the US for a week, she told me with a little sarcasm that she “hopes I don’t die in a shooting”. And after surviving only a few days in the US without getting shot (ha.ha…), it wasn’t all too surprising to me why school shootings

A Re-Call to Sustainable Eating

We’ve heard oh so often, how we must curb our release of carbon into the atmosphere. Covid has shown us that our emissions are huge, even if planes were mostly grounded and we travelled less. The initial reaction to this is fatalism: Global Warming is unstoppable. Are we doomed? Westerners would disagree. Europe is in

Short Codes, Big Effects

The set of short codes in all programming languages that have significant, and perhaps unexpected effects is a particularly fascinating one, because often the most seemingly innocent codes can cause a variety of problems. Some of the most clever lines of code ever written (like the one-liners in Python) rely on hugely compact writing, approaching