Because I try to build things, and also because there are very smart people online, I occasionally get tagged on very interesting topics on social media. Happened a few days ago when someone asked what…
Browsing Category Engineering & Computing
Mostly about Engineering, Computer Science, programming. Theory and application
Learning Design
I used to think design skills and creativity were things a person either had or did not have. People, I imagined, were born good designers or not. And I thought myself unfortunate to be born…
A Look into the Future: Artificial Intelligence Generates Fake Faces and It’s Creepy
If you go on This Person Does Not Exist you’ll see an image of a stranger, perhaps one you might meet some day, and each time you refresh another stranger comes up. Nothing remarkable, you…
Lines of Code
Anyone who has ever programmed knows how frustrating debugging can be. After hours and hours of writing code you realise that the program doesn’t work as it should. You feel like smashing the computer. That’s what…
Code is Magic
There is a 38 000 word essay on Bloomberg written by Paul Ford titled “What is Code?” which I advise anyone interested in technology or the future to read. The article is a crash course…
The Nature of Ideas and Bits: Why Sharing that Nude Photo is a Bad Idea
While reading an interesting book called Blown to Bits: Your Life, Liberty and Happiness After the Digital Explosion (which I’ll write about soon) I came across a quote by Thomas Jefferson concerning the nature of…
Hello World!
It is traditional for programming beginners to start by writing a simple program that prints “Hello World!” or a variation thereof. Since this is a blog on Computer Science and obviously some programming, I figure…