LLM and Google Search

Imagine you are responsible for Google’s search engine. Ever since ChatGPT happened, you have to think about how not to…

Ideology in Programming

Programmers have ideology. Yeah, that is a surprise. Some people are dead set on functional programming. If it is not…

LLM vs LLM, part deux

Well, spy versus spy, right?

Design Patterns for the Win

It was the middle of 2000’s. Our only working developer had just quit. I, as the only software person left…

Is Celsius More Sensible than Fahrenheit for Measuring Temperature?

Well, if your world is full of water, and you would like to call water’s freezing temperature to be zero degrees, then why, the Celsius scale is more sensible. But, in the cosmic sense, is it more sensible? In…

Innovation

The other day I read a story about the person behind the name “Goodyear” of the tire company. Unfortunately, he did not start that company. He died penniless, more or less. Other than how to vulcanize rubber so that it can be used to make tires, among other things, he left us with the following quote.

“Are you testing me?” and ELIZA

I took my AI course like thirty something years ago. That was during the connectionism mini-winter. So…

Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff

However, there is a “however” in this saying. Sometimes, the small stuff is the big stuff. Usually in places…

Merging Branches

We are in the middle of a multi-branch development. I never like doing it this way, but sometimes it can’t be helped.

Merging branches is never a fun thing. It is also quite error prone. In terms of what is being merged, there are actually different categories. Some are…

My RIM Interview in 2000

An anecdote. No deep meaning.