Text vs. Binary Files

In Computer Science, every file is just a pile of 1s and 0s, but (I want to distinguish between) there are really 2…

Tools

We become what we behold. We shape our tools, and thereafter our tools shape us. — Marshall McLuhan

Intro to Data Structures

Excel, csv, xml, json, databases

The most familiar data structure in the world is the spreadsheet 🤓 🤘

Singularity

“The accelerating progress of technology and changes in the mode of human life, give the appearance of approaching some essential singularity in the history of the race beyond which human…

Information

Everything in a computer is made up of 1s and 0s. A picture of your beautiful baby is just bunch of 1s and 0s. Your child is just a number! The same is trus of any picture, video or text. How can that be?

Secrets

It has been said that the First World War was the chemists’ war, because mustard gas and…

Biology

“Life, uh…finds a way” — Malcolm, Jurassic Park

Collaboration

Before the Biblical story of the Tower of Babel, humanity spoke one language. They aspired to reach the level of God and began…

Trust

“I have always depended on the kindness of strangers“— Blanche DuBois, A Streetcar Named Desire

Abstraction

“I don’t care how you do it, just do it”