My bet is Chomsky is right in the Chomsky vs Norvig debate and Geoffrey Hinton just provided some amazing fuel on the fire. If you don’t know what the Chomsky vs Norvig debate is, it started with Chomsky deriding AI researchers about heavily relying on opaque probabilistic models for

I learned programming computers before I had the internet. While technically I am a Millennial, unlike most younger Millennial programmers I had a completely different experience than they did learning how to program computers. Programming became an obsession for me as a child when I accidentally pressed the wrong button

I am not a woman/man child. I don’t need games and toys to be motivated to do my work. I don’t need sugar snacks and soda pop. I take my work seriously and find inherent joy in it. Companies often use hackathons to “motivate” employees. This only

Slogging I’m writing a new time series DB in C++ called Henhouse and this is a story about a bug and my heroic battle with it. Actually, it’s not really a story about a bug, but more of a way of finding bugs and preventing them. I hope

Not the Earth I am writing this on earth day, but this isn’t about the earth. On way to work I was riding the bus. And as usual, I was catching up on my reading as I was glued to the phone. During a stop, as many of you

Fortunately for all of us, in 15 years since the dot-com bubble collapse, there has been an increased effort from Free Software and other developers to create decentralized systems. Bittorrent,  Tox,  ZeroTier One, TeleHash, Media Goblin, Sandstorm, GNUNet, and countless others.  This includes my own Fire★ project which I have

I wrote a little peer-to-peer application platform called Fire★. You can write graphical P2P applications using Lua. Fire★ will keep track of your contacts and manage the hard parts of p2p programming like UDP hole punching and keeping connections going. There is also a built in application editor where you