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  • The Weekly: Being Obviously Wrong

    … also in this issue: life of legos and eggs, a brief crosspost, and a nagging question. Being obviously wrong, i.e., in a manner that is obvious and clear, can be a strength for automated systems. Because when a machine breaks — digital or mechanical — with a lot of sound and drama, it becomes…

  • Sitting in the park with my kid. Watching trains come and go. 🚇🚃🚈

  • Knowing that no one is reading your blog is relaxing. 😁 Takes the edge off of my social media experience. Also allows me to comfortably microblog once or twice a day, and do a long-form post once a week… without having this need to post every stray thought that comes to mind. Wonder how long…

  • These wisps of clouds caught me off guard as I climbed a flight of stairs the other day. Almost had a stairway to heaven vibe to it. But maybe I am overselling it all.

  • Thinking of starting an ASMR podcast of me typing on my keyboard. Noise isolation will be an interesting challenge to overcome.

  • Trying out a new post format that does not have titles. Trying to have a microblog within a regular blog. Be interesting to see how it works out.

  • The Weekly: Schools need to teach Art History

    … also in this edition of The Weekly: a dance of water and light and a quick kook at Microsoft’s original logo. Here is an unsubstantiated thesis: One reason society does not invest in art or pay artists is because we do not teach about art or art history in school, like we do math,…

  • The Weekly: The Web with no Apps

    … also in this edition of The Weekly: cool looking legos and a Waymo spotted in the wild. I have been thinking a lot about websites and web apps. What makes a website distinct from a web app? How do you define a web app, or a website? Are they necessarily different? I think these…

  • The Weekly: Language is not Math

    … and more from this edition of the Weekly. Counting and numbers as concepts strike me as different from words and language. This became obvious to me when I saw my toddler learning how to speak and count. We may assign words and language to numbers, but the abstract ideas of counting and arithmetic do…

  • The Weekly: India does not need Generative AI

    … and more from this edition of The Weekly. I contend that India does not need to worry about advancing fundamental GenAI research. Instead it needs to worry about knowing how to apply all of computer technology, and not just GenAI, to an Indian context. A tale of two problems: Research and Applications of Gen…