Limited Technology
As an unabashed fan of both e-ink technologies as well as reading, I regularly look for and upgrade my e-readers: going from the original Kindles, to the Kindle Voyager and Oasis[1], to the Remarkable...
Review: Quantum Supremacy
I went through a theoretical physics phase in high school. Our school only offered the standard high school courses, but I started collecting, and became enamored, with books written by famous contemporary physicists: Carl Sagan,...
Gaming to Engage
Remember when gamification was the technique du jour a decade ago? The software industry pounced on the idea that game mechanics—known to trigger the dopamine releases that keep users coming back for more—could...
Jigsaw Puzzle Solving
Jigsaw puzzles are an invention of a bygone era. As an entertainment product, it's antithetical to modern trends. It's a slow activity, where the finished product is readily available on the...
AI Optimism
When the hype cycle around AI was picking up a few years back, there was this pervasive fear that we were on the cusp of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). ChatGPT and its ilk were such...
Emergent Tetris
Here's a fun, 2-hour documentary on the 35+ year history of the NES version of Tetris and the community still surrounding it to this day: Tetris is hardly a complicated game, and an...