I’ve seen some impressive AI demos across the web where researchers teach an AI to reproduce human faces or lip sync audio over pre-existing videos. Impressive, and unimaginable, several years ago for sure. Similarly unimaginable today is the way in which social networks and other tools have been used to undermine democratic systems through the […]
Keystone gameplay elements, called so because if they’re taken out the game isn’t that much fun anymore. I started thinking about this during a bitter game of Overwatch and I’ve applied it here to bunch of other games: Player Unknown’s Battlegrounds (PUBG) is only as fun as the loot you find in the first five […]
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Web 3.0 and Beyond
This post was initially drafted in January, 2013. I stumbled on it in my drafts folder and five years on I think it still offers a good retrospect and today a good summary. From the original version I’ve only added a few links and revised the wording. For today, I’ve Appended a section predicting the […]
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All the Podcasts I Listen to
This is an update to a post from four years ago with the same title. Regular listens Back to Work Roderick on the Line This American Life Rocket Reconcilable Differences Do By Friday The Ezra Klein Show Recode Decode The Relentless Picnic Occasional listens: 99 Percent Invisible Invisibilia Accidental Tech Podcast Road Work It will […]