Category: Interesting

QOTD 2020-04-10

On creativity

“You can’t rehearse what you ain’t invented yet.”

Wayne Shorter (American jazz saxophonist and composer)

AlphaGo vs Lee Sedol

AlphaGo won twice against Lee Sedol, one of the greatest Go players in history. This is a significant milestone in the history of AI, because the sheer scale of the problem space Go has is one of the biggest among the games humans play.

This makes me think hard about how and what to teach our future generation to prepare for the era when people will blindly follow many decisions that have been made by AI without (or incapable of) fully comprehending their meaning and consequences.

[Slides] Mobile Is Eating the World

There is no point in drawing a distinction between the future of technology and the future of mobile. They are the same. In other words, technology is now outg…

Putting perspective to technology and evolution of our cilivization.

[Slides] Mobile Is Eating the World

Philips hue

Internet of things? Lights can go a long way. Philips hue.

(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)

LIX: The World’s Smallest 3D Printing Pen Lets You Draw in the Air

LIX is the latest contender in the handheld 3D-printing field. Launched just a few hours ago on Kickstarter, the developers claim the super compact design is smaller than any other pen on the market and it can even be powered by the electricity from a USB port. It takes less than a minute t

I wish the promo video was a bit more succinct, nonetheless the results are amazing.

LIX: The World’s Smallest 3D Printing Pen Lets You Draw in the Air

Quote: Elon Musk on Working Hours

“If other people are putting in 40-hour workweeks, and you’re putting in 100-hour workweeks, then, even if you’re doing the same thing, you will achieve in four months what it takes them a year to achieve.”

– Elon Musk (video)

Quote: Muhammad Ali on Impossible

“Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live the world they’ve been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It’s an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It’s a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.”

– Muhammad Ali