Who’s Who in AI — Episode 2: John McCarthy, Marvin Minsky, and Dartmouth — When Artificial Intelligence Got a Name
AI did not just appear. In 1956, a tiny summer workshop gave it a name, a mission, and a wildly optimistic schedule…
August Review: Living Life, Wild Metrics, and the Strange Case of the 453% Blog Jump
August sent the metrics in every direction, while life kept winning the scheduling battle. So what actually worked, and what comes next…
Episode 82: Tamara de Lempicka, or How to Make Art Deco Look Like It Has a Driver Waiting Outside
Tamara de Lempicka painted glamour so sharp it could cut glass. But the life behind those polished portraits was even more…
Who’s Who in AI — Episode 1: Alan Turing, or the Man Who Asked Whether Machines Could Think
Before ChatGPT, before AI had a name, Alan Turing asked the question we are still arguing about: can a machine actually…
Friday Night Laughs #34: Men vs Women
He packed in 14 minutes. She packed in 14 days. Then somebody said “I’m fine,” and the real fight…
Episode 81: Amedeo Modigliani, or How to Make a Long Neck Look Like a State of Mind
He painted long faces, strange eyes, and quiet grace. But Modigliani’s biggest twist came after the world finally noticed him…
Music That Moves Me: Episode 8 — Louise Attaque’s J’t’emmène au vent, or How One Farewell Gift Changed My Musical Taste
My boss handed me one album as I left Paris. One violin, one chorus, and my musical taste was never going to…
CS302 Episode 2: Parsing and Structure, or How Your Compiler Turns a Wall of Text Into Something It Can Reason About
Your compiler turns raw text into tokens, grammar, and structure before meaning even enters the room, which explains why one missing…
Gold, Fax Machines, Sliced Bread, and Other Things America Once Treated Like Trouble
Gold, sliced bread, pinball, fax machines – America has outlawed some wildly normal things. The reasons get even stranger when…
Hydrogen Engines: The Combustion Engine Found a New Fuel and Refused to Retire
Hydrogen engines keep the pistons, ditch the gasoline, and raise one awkward question: are they brilliant, inefficient, or both…