The picture in the heading is of a mom with 4 jobs to make ends meet. A worried scientist who had just left academia. A skilled analyst who had just gotten a freelance job. Here I was happy, and grateful and exhausted and I wanted to capture that in a…

Today two books came ended up on my desk, one published last year (experimentation guide with a git-hub example library for GPT-3) and one published in 1741 (Man a Machine, By Julien Offray de la Mettrie). So I did what anyone having these two books in front them would do…

During the past five years I’ve lectured for about 10k people in different forums and settings, from small lectures to packed auditoriums and online audiences. I’ve held lectures in a penthouse and 35 meters under ground, in an old nuclear reactor. Since I do all of my lectures for free…

One of my favourite artists died of Covid-19 in early 2021. My favourite quote of his was “Were those really better times, or were we simply better people” And to honour him, I’ve decided to properly translate one of my favourite songs of his: Life Is An Ocean Life is…

A few years ago I had my first memory flashback of a memory that didn’t happen in “in real life” or as my generation (elder millennials) like to say “away from keyboard”. A few days ago, it happened again. It was 2018, and I was secluded in my home quite…

I’ve been on social media since I was 12, i.e. 1996. My first social media was a fanpage for David Bowie. We all had different Bowie songs as usernames and you couldn’t upload pictures but you could set your profile picture avatar. There were 10 whole different avatars to choose…

Rejection. It used to anger me. Frustrate me. Confuse me. Sadden me. Now, it doesn’t even faze me. I don’t know if it’s good or bad, but the past four years, I’ve become friends with rejection. Rejection started early. From never being invited to birthday parties. …

It’s 2020, Kevin McCallister is all grown up. He, being the tech savvy kid he was, ended up in IT. He is working for a subset of the government creating AI software for the military. It’s Christmas Eve. While everyone is partying it up in the office Kevin has to…

During the end of 2019, and start of 2020 I got tagged as a bot on social media. Twitter was the most aggressive. Every 20 minutes I would get my account restricted, and I’d had to do automated Turing Test so many times during a day that I started to…