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AI and Consciousness


Consciousness is one of these terms that comes up again and again when talking about the newest iterations of current AI systems. But what is consciousness? Honestly, the term was already hard to define even before the advent of AI. I guess the most common explanation these days is still that consci...

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Date: 20250417
Tags: science, software

Play


What would civilization be without play? Would it even exist? Indeed one could argue that play is older than civilization, that it's even older than culture itself. Long before we became settlers and started developing rites and cultures to built up our societies play was already there. Children are...

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Date: 20240402

Shannon Entropy


Information is uncertainty, surprise, difficulty, and entropy.

—James Gleick

Everything tends toward entropy. Entropy means disorder and chaos. Entropy means the final state of everything. Sooner or later everything will be in the state of entropy. That state will be totally random and unabl...

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Date: 20240102

Art of Forgetting


In today's world information is ubiquitous. It's everywhere, you can't escape. All these libraries, books, social media accounts, YouTube videos, PDFs and Websites need to be processed at some point. The relevant information needs to be taken out, all the irrelevancies need to be left behind. But it...

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Date: 20231125