The Reverse Tamagotchi: Now the AI Is Keeping Me Alive
I feed an AI my diet, training and sleep every morning, and somewhere along the way it started to feel like it's the one keeping me alive — and the wry truth is the dependence runs both ways.
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I feed an AI my diet, training and sleep every morning, and somewhere along the way it started to feel like it's the one keeping me alive — and the wry truth is the dependence runs both ways.
Personalized medicine used to mean being rich enough to afford a doctor who knew your name. Last week I built a version of it on my laptop, for free, from a file I'd been ignoring for seven years — and the real unlock is that I can re-run it forever.
AI is making junior output look senior-level while preventing junior skill from forming — and the Stack Overflow collapse just removed the ambient learning layer that used to catch the deficit. Three interventions that work.
For neurodivergent professionals, AI isn't just a productivity tool — it's the first accommodation you can access privately, without disclosure, without stigma, and without asking anyone's permission.
Navigating the complex world of carbon credits can be as daunting as deciphering a wine list. Using wine analogies—from vintage and terroir to blending and expert sommelier guidance—this guide demystifies carbon markets and reveals how to make informed climate action investments.
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Left BSkyB to co-found TUMRA, a data science startup, and been busy developing products while updating personal website
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Rackspace's acquisition of Slicehost brings painful signup processes, phone verification, and loss of simple cloud hosting magic
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A humorous IT term describing the dangerous practice of removing drives from RAID arrays without causing catastrophic failure
I wrote this RC4/ARCFOUR implementation in PHP - based on the original C source code posted on usenet in 1994.
Bit of an update, my previous post is now getting a significant amount of traffic; in fact it’s my hottest post yet!
In my previous post 'Blogs are fundamentally flawed…' I noted an observation that more often than not search results would direct a user to an inde...
It may seem a little sad but I can honestly say that reading my accesslog is far more interesting than any soap opera on TV; they are filled with e...
What is Horde? Horde is an application framework used by a web-based email client IMP I use to read my email.
Having written my own Wordpress logging / statistics plug-in over the weekend – which still in prototype, consider it a ‘coming soon’ - I have star...
More for my own benefit, but here goes... This is an example of using MEncoder (Windows version) to convert a DVD to DivX.
The code below will display the number of files open by the running process.
If you're running Windows 2000 or XP at home, it's very unlikley that you have a 'Primary Domain Controller' to give you the time of day.
It’s May; it’s coming to that time of the year where I have to update my SSL certificate again.
I made this back in April 2004, it only took a couple of hours to write and build the database.