Still amazes me that to get an arts degree in anything you basically have to understand how history, society and politics apply to the things we make, and yet we just let these nerds run wild without ensuring they understand the basic message of Jurassic Park.
My power’s really low, so this may be the last image I can send. Don’t worry about me though: my time here has been both productive and serene. If I can keep talking to my mission team, I will – but I’ll be signing off here soon. Thanks for staying with me.
OpenAI's new ChatGPT explains the worst-case time complexity of the bubble sort algorithm, with Python code examples, in the style of a fast-talkin' wise guy from a 1940's gangster movie:
Teaching my compressible flow course online is giving me the opportunity to answer some long-standing questions, such as: Just how fast *is* that eagle in the @USPS logo going? Turns out, about Mach 4.9...
Mary Shelley did try to warn us about hubristic STEM bros who make strange, impulsive experiments and then watch helplessly as their creation destroys itself at the expense of ordinary people.