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. …

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…

“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. …

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…

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. …

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…

When I told my friend I would be visiting the US for a week, she told me with a little sarcasm: “I hope you don’t die in a shooting”. — When I told my friend that I will be visiting the US for a week, she told me with a little sarcasm that she “hopes I don’t die in a shooting”. And after surviving only a few days in the US without getting shot (ha.ha…), …

Try going without sugar for a while. I dare you. — We’ve heard oh so often, how we must curb our release of carbon into the atmosphere. Covid has shown us that our emissions are huge, even if planes were mostly grounded and we travelled less. The initial reaction to this is fatalism: Global Warming is unstoppable. Are we doomed? Westerners…

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. …