Why not treat a learning AI like you would treat a dog? 2019-10-05 | Reading time: 2 minutes Who is responsible if you have an AI system (e.g., a robot) that learns after you buy it -- when it does something wrong. Perhaps treating such a system like you would treat a dog would be a way to deal with it.Image: «Supergirl»[show the article]
Don’t let customer support try to justify design decisions 2019-09-21 | Reading time: 3 minutes The conversation about the missing Three Panes View of DEVONthink 3 is an interesting example to me of how not to deal with customers.[show the article]
Weight Hacking Part IV – The Long View 2019-09-17 | Reading time: 1 minute Losing weight is simple, keeping it off is hard. Funny thing, with tracking, you'll see phases, trends and where you'd end up when.[show the article]
DEVONthink 3 — Where the heck is DEVONthink going? 2019-09-17 | Reading time: 4 minutes DEVONthink 3 looks sleek (if colorless) and comes with new features. More important is what they ditched, and possibly whom.[show the article]
Looking at a Shadowrun Future — By political parties delegating censorship powers to corporations 2019-09-17 | Reading time: 1 minute We are weary of censorship by the state. But unfortunately, censorship got delegated to private companies. Unfortunately for us ... and the state.Image: Shadowrun Rulebook Cover Image.[show the article]
How about a few mirror neurons for AIs/neural networks? 2019-09-17 | Reading time: 1 minute AIs could be psychopaths — capable of understanding emotions but not being affected by it. Or they could be condemned to feel.Image: "Detroit -- Become Human" walkthrough.[show the article]
DEVONthink and iOS Disk Space 2019-09-13 | Reading time: 2 minutes The iOS version of DEVONthink (2.7.2) changed how it handles preview images — resulting in massive amounts of space being used for ... preview images.[show the article]
Idealistic Youth and (Social) Power 2019-08-10 | Reading time: 2 minutes A short passage from a graphic novel struck a chord — there is a danger when idealistic youth get power beyond their years.[show the article]
Why Creativity is Incompatible with Collectivism/Socialism 2019-07-30 | Reading time: 16 minutes A short comment on creativity and collectivism/socialism with a few (longer) quotations.[show the article]
The Right Kind of Wrong. Or: Using bad practice just because it’s industry standard. 2019-07-30 | Reading time: 1 minute What do you do when something is "industry standard", but clearly inferior. Yet, you get into trouble when you do it better, because people don't recognize it as better?[show the article]
