Category Archives: Thinking
The Black Swan
Michaela bought me The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb for Christmas. It was a perspective changing book. I loved it. Buy it, read it, now! I’ll wait….. Right, so now we are in the same head space, wasn’t it … Continue reading
Ultra Distractible: Chatbots
Well after my Sci-Fi zen thinking, I was still abuzz with smart computers type thinking, so I went on a Google rampage about AI/ALife and found stuff about Chatbots, which lead me onto the Loebner Prize site. Oh so my … Continue reading
Fit for purpose – Workflows that work.
As a this is what I meant chat I had with Matt in regarding Software Development, I came up with some key idea’s. One is that in prototyping/designing the interactions you are creating the surface in which a user interacts with the … Continue reading
Software Development
I was having a very Zen moment on Saturday, influenced by Do Androids Dream of Electronic Sheep, where I was trying to imagine what/how software should be built in the future. It starts from my dislike of the paradigm for … Continue reading
Re: Why are Open Source People So Fanatical?
Peter Jones asked why are open source people so fanatical? and I think there are a number of reasons. So I’m going to enumerate them here. The first is regarding compiling the kernel. This is seen as a guaranty, if … Continue reading
