Recently my cable Internet service was automatically “upgraded” from 30 Mbps to 300 Mbps (along with an increase in price).

One of the exciting developments in AI right now is text-to-image generation.

I want solar panels. I want my electric bill to go to zero. I’d even like it to be negative!

Many moons ago - back in 2017 I think - I bought my wife an HP Pavilion. Or rather we bought it together for her.

Just a quick video of me replacing the old hard drive in my wife’s laptop with a new solid state drive, or SSD:

Technology keeps progressing faster and faster. It’s accelerating. Or so I’m told. But is it really? How can we tell?

Every morning one of the first things I do when I get to work is text my wife “Good morning, beautiful!” Except I don’t have to type all 24 characters (including the two spaces) on the little on-screen keyboard - I just have to start typing the first couple of letters to “good” and my phone will suggest the rest.

One of the most challenging aspects of investing is lack of foreknowledge or future knowledge - we simply do not know what the performance of a stock or index fund will be. But what if we could print out a list of opening values of a stock and then take a time machine backward in time and invest with foreknowledge? Would we be able to make much more money than otherwise possible?

Out with the old, and in with the new.

For a while, my Facebook Android App had a little rocket ship along the top menu icons. It turned out this little rocket ship lead to something called the Explore Feed, which was a cool little section on that allowed you to view posts from pages you might like but haven’t necessarily “liked” the page itself. The rocket ship icon shifted position several times, so I figured Facebook was just trying to figure out the optimal placement for it. I really liked the explore feed but after a month or so of the icon moving around, it disappeared completely. I thought Facebook had simply given up on their little project.

I’ve recently started listening to podcasts during my commutes in my car. For those that don’t know, podcasts are a series of downloadable audio shows presented in a similar fashion to radio. The word podcast is a combination (portmanteau) of the words iPod and broadcast. They don’t have to be played on an iPod and can be played on any device - iOS, Apple, Android, burn it to CD], record it on an audiotape, 8-track, vinyl… (Although I doubt anyone has done the last two…)

I was curious as to what my instantaneous electrical usage was. Unfortunately, most resources I found online, such as WikiHow and various blog posts only told me how to reach the current usage on an analog electric meter.

I’ve recently been studying time series analysis and was curious as to whether a time series is correlated with its future self (or past self, as the case may be). This thought came about when studying stock market prediction: the best predictor for the stock market would be a crystal ball that told you the future values.

Machine learning. Artificial intelligence. Neural networks. It’s all exciting stuff, and I’ve been studying it for my master’s degree. But outside of the classroom, outside of computers, what has it taught me about life?

Square Cash is a mobile app that allows you to send money to anyone, instantly. Owned by Square, Inc., it’s essentially a competitor to PayPal and Venmo. You may have used a Square terminal at some small businesses.

I was working on my fiancee’s car over the weekend when the power button on my Samsung Galaxy S5 stopped working. This was particularly frustrating because I had the flashlight on at the time and didn’t want to drain the battery.

Yeah, this isn’t one of those awesome religion or political posts I promised yesterday, but at least it’s something…

Robot cars, that is. Google has had its robotic cars travel over 140k miles. For safety, of course, they have an actual driver in the car in case the car doesn’t react correctly.