Random Access(ed) Memories

Talking with my friend Sebastian we hit the topic of things that AI was helping us to achieve and also things that we dodged the bullet by steering the AI agent in the right direction, avoiding a bad “long-term” choice. These were situations where the AI agent went in one direction that was not the right one, or let’s say, that we know would have bad consequences… Those situations where you ask yourself “But does it work?” and the answer is yeah, for sure… but is not the right choice because it’s either a problem in the long term, or a dead end, or maybe it’s way too… “myopic”? ...

Tank: Let’s get to it…. Now, we’re supposed to start with these operation programs first, that’s major boring shit. Let’s do something a little more fun. How about combat training? Neo: Jujitsu? I’m going to learn Jujitsu?… Holy shit. Tank: Hey Mikey, I think he likes it. How about some more? Neo: Hell yes. Morpheus: How is he? Tank: Ten hours straight. He’s… a machine. Neo: I know Kung Fu. Neo's training scene in the Nebuchadnezzar - The Matrix (1999) I wish it was like that, huh? ...

I’m very fortunate of working mostly remote (at least for now) and over the years I kept fine-tuning and improving my work setup. Little changes like a better keayboard, a comfy chair, bigger monitor(s), etc. It changes a lot having a nice work setup. It changes your day and even how tired you get. We spend a lot of our day on that place (specially if you are a nerd like me) and the more enjoyable our place is, the better. ...