I’m pretty fascinated with Paul Graham’s take on programming languages in the three essays “Beating the Averages”, “The Hundred-Year Language”, and “Revenge of the Nerds”. It seems when people tend to talk about the relative quality or advantages of programming languages they usually focus on how speedy or efficient a…

In broad strokes (pun intended), Paul Graham’s visions of hackers as akin to painters shares much in common with Stephen Levy’s own description of hackers. Graham’s comparisons of hackers to painters resonated with me the last time I read this article last semester in ethics and I still find that…

In the first section of Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution, hackers did their hacking mostly just because it was their passion. They invested huge amounts of their time into it simply due to their love of hacking. Hacker Ethic was leading the way in how these hackers lived. Then…

In the first section of the book Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution, we get introduced to the first “True Hackers” and everything it takes to be one. …

What is a hacker? The entertainment industry has given us many ideas of what the popular perception of a hacker is. Of course, Rami Malek’s portrayal of the character Elliot Alderson in the series Mr. Robot is one of the more recognizable popular images of a hacker in recent years…

First Things First: What is a Patent? According to the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) itself, “a patent is an exclusive right for an invention — a product or process that provides a new way of doing something, or that offers a new technical solution to a problem”. This seems to make sense. …

More than 37,000 people were killed in car crashes in the United States in 2016, as one of our readings from The Atlantic states. Traffic is also a massive problem in the US, just ask anyone in LA. AVs, or autonomous vehicles, are one proposed technological advancement that proponents argue…

Okay, maybe it’s too early to welcome our AI overlords — although Roko may disagree — but the rise of AI is certainly occurring. Artificial intelligence has continued to improve over the last few decades, and there is no indication of it slowing down any time soon. What is AI? Artificial intelligence, quite…

You can’t handle the truth! Well, maybe you could handle the truth, but you might find out that you’ll have a hard time finding it. Why’s that, you ask? If you’re one of the everyone in the United States that goes online quite often, and even uses it as a…