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...
Tag: design
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...
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...
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.
New watch, new discoveries
I went on a journey to get an analog field watch. I did get one I am happy with. But I learned a few interesting things along the way. Fine things are not for m...
Why do ‘How-to’ Biz YouTubers think everyone can do what they do and succeed?
I’ve been on a tear these last few months, building up my Etsy store of expressive shirts for makers (you can read more about it here, and are welcome to ...
Getting into a groove with my Etsy store of marker-inspired t-shirt designs
Back at the start of May, I kicked off the first line of products for my haberdashery. As I mentioned before, this idea was brewing in my head for some time unt...
I did a thing: Expressive t-shirts for makers and hackers
I’m the great-grandson of a haberdasher, as I keep telling my wife. And my mother is an obsessive maker – she used to have her own children’s ...
Now that genAI remembers so well, I’d like a bit of forgetfulness
When I started using genAI tools like ChatGPT (whom I call Geoffrey), the tools could not remember what was said earlier in the thread of a conversation. Of cou...
What’s the fascination with humanoid robots?
I was reading an interesting article on the fusion of robots and LLMs (see link below). One concept in the article that caught my attention was ’embodied ...