The Oracle: a kinetically augmented device for reflection
The Oracle is a physical cognitive tool to help you reflect on matters that occupy your thoughts. mad either for a contest.
Category: The Narrative
I’m not the only one who says cameras alone are not enough on self-driving cars
I always like when someone smarter and more successful than me agrees with something I said long ago. In this case, the head of Waymo made clear that cameras ar...
Finally, you can match tunes to your run tempo
For most of the time I've run, I've had some sort of accelerometer, so I've always thought it would be cool for the music to match my pace.
Tangible experience: harder to pedal where it is harder to afford to live
Connecting cycling effort and local housing prices? I'd call this a truly 'tangible experience.'
Twenty years ago I was too naïve to predict today’s lawsuits around social media addiction
This early years (say, pre-2008) were heady. Facebook and Twitter became like huge commons. Social networks expanded globally and temporally. Fast forward to 20...
Rogue AI agents are the Loa Gibson wrote 40 years ago
How soon before one of these replicate themselves somewhere so that they can't be shutdown?
When to use AI or not: gym or work? friction or friction-less?
Bruce Schneier's gym v work criteria for AI use kinda dovetails with my view of friction v friction-less creation. To Schneier (and Lopatto) 'gym' is about effo...
Welcome to the post FDA World: the ChatGPT dog cancer vaccine meme
We are in the post-FDA era of goopy IVs, funky electrolytes, longevity dreams, designer peptides, and other quack ideas, powered by ChatGPT-fueled hallucination...
NHTSA targets Tesla’s FSD for removing radar and ultrasonic sensors – now, duh
NHTSA is going after Tesla. Yeah, I knew this day would come. Camera-only self-driving vehicles is such a stupid idea.
Bad thing: folks are disabling the recording light on their smart glasses (and my preference)
I find this story disheartening. I really can’t think most folks who disable their recording light on their smart glasses are doing it for a good reason. ...