Managing complexity is one of the greatest challenges developers and managers face. Developers face complexity in the form of having code that can grow difficult to understand, and managers face it in businesses that become hard to comprehend. The human mind is finite and can only hold so much in it at a given time.
Developers have a number of tools and best practices to try to help make code more understandable.… read more “Complexity”
Nevin had a sports themed bachelor party this weekend in Dallas and I came along. 26 guys had a giant sports tournament playing flag football, soccer, halo tourney, basketball, 4×400 relay, badminton, home run derby, and tennis.
We had a huge 117 acre estate in Dallas we stayed at with a main house, cabana, pool house, pool, and spa.… read more “Sportslorette”
http://youtu.be/0W688KiZjLM
I am in purple… Kind of died in the last turn then revived at the end.
I wake up and pull my phone off its charger and go through my morning routine of reading Hacker News, Nytimes, Facebook, occasionally playing a bit of Chess.com. I head into work and stand on my treadmill desk in front of my laptop and external monitor working all day. In the evening, I go home and read on my Kindle or play on my phone or occasionally watch a movie.… read more “Screen Time”
You paid $1.4 million for the app that TSA agents use to decide whether you go to the left line or the right line. Any beginner programmer could build this in a day. https://kev.inburke.com/kevin/tsa-randomizer-app-cost-336000/?lobsters
I just watched the movie transcendence… So good! They took some artistic liberties with the AI… Humans will be many orders of magnitude outclassed by a true strong AI within day of it reaching human level intelligence.
The stock market has been very hard to predict lately. It is at a pretty high point, but I am worried inflation might set in and it might go yet higher. I am also concerned it could crash. I am unsure what would be best to invest in at this point.
Google’s DeepMind artificial intelligence defeats the Go world champion far sooner than anyone had predicted. https://mobile.twitter.com/mustafasuleymn/status/707469083458068480. Go is a far more challenging game then chess. At this point AI can outthink humans at most specialized domains, the next area will be general intelligence. I give it 3-5 years, though most experts say 20-40 years.