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Khun Yee Fung, Ph.D. in Programming is Life

Value of Money

What is the value of money? I mean, if you have a dollar, you have a dollar. Isn’t a dollar the value of one dollar? Yes. But one dollar might not be the value of the money you spent with face value of one dollar. In other words, the one dollar is the face value, the actual value of the one dollar you…

Khun Yee Fung, Ph.D. in Programming is Life

Jul 15

Is Everything Computation?

Well, I guess this is in the same vein as “everything is information”. To be honest, I think both are just baloney. The reality is whatever it is. When we have to make sense of it, we need a proxy, a way to represent it somehow. We can’t use reality to represent reality as that is…

Khun Yee Fung, Ph.D. in Programming is Life

Jun 27

Why Software Development is Hard

I was installing a POE IP camera in my garage. The garage has garage doors for vehicles (obviously!). My family wanted a camera in the garage because the existing cameras are all outside the house, none of them shows whether the garage doors are open or not. So, we have…

Khun Yee Fung, Ph.D. in Programming is Life

Jun 24

Can AI Ever Be Conscious?

Well, I saw the article “Why AI Will Never Be Conscious”. I mean, it definitely tickled my interest. I did not feel like commenting on the article, as there are too many caveats, too many assumptions, implicit or otherwise, to sort out. In a comment, that is more or less impossible…

Khun Yee Fung, Ph.D. in Programming is Life

Jun 5

AI Hallucination and Big Brother

I was thinking, until very recently, human knowledge either transmits by words of mouth, teaching, or writings in books. Even though books can be destroyed, burned, eaten away by worms, buried, etc., they are permanent in the sense that the printing does not get changed…

Khun Yee Fung, Ph.D. in Programming is Life

Jun 1

Does AI Really Need that Much Data to Train?

My opinion is actually, no, for most purposes, it does not. Then why do all the AI…

Khun Yee Fung, Ph.D. in Programming is Life

May 7

Why Even Have the NULL Value at all?

Years ago, I read C. J. Date’s essay about NULL in relational databases. If you didn’t know Date, he was, perhaps still is, one of the major figures in relational database circle. And I learned tremendous amount of stuff from his writing, much more than what I got…

Khun Yee Fung, Ph.D. in Programming is Life

May 6

Fake it until you make it…

That mentality of “fake it until you make it” is actually the extremely version of what technology and engineering at the edge is about. Perhaps the word “fake” is not quite right here, but technology and engineering at the edge, the bleeding edge, is really about trying the…

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Khun Yee Fung, Ph.D. in Programming is Life

May 4

AI Hallucination…

I don’t have the habit of laughing out loud when I watch videos. I tend to watch videos silently. Videos are usually too slow for me, so I need to fidget a bit, and mostly listen to videos and watch them occasionally. And since I wander off easily, I play the bubble shooter game on a different…

Khun Yee Fung, Ph.D. in Programming is Life

Apr 27

Is Having a CS Education Useful?

Is a computer science degree worth pursuing? Well, okay, this might be the wrong question to ask. How…

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