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

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

The Main Problem with Sustainability

Time and time again, I keep hearing about sustainability this, sustainability that. However, there is a fundamental problem with this approach to making the world a better place.  A friend of mine recently bought a Tesla because it’s electric, arguing that it’s more sustainable. It’s certainly true that it doesn’t release carbon into the atmosphere

The OS Landscape: A Guide for us All

When looking at the landscape of operating systems (OS), as opposed to those of the sciences, we find something intriguing: explanations of all OS’s do not resemble anything one could teach a five-year old. One might hope that there is one single OS or that all computers follow specific guidelines, which they don’t. Thus, we