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31 Dec

A Short Consideration of the State of U.S. Naval Technology

U.S. naval technology stands at a crossroads. The degree of power and innovation in the fleet stands at its pinnacle, and designs and plans progress for even greater impact — unmanned ships, destructive lasers, AI-augmented decision-making. Yet the face of...
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24 May

Power in Miniature: Algorithmic Tools in an AI World

(If you just want to see the code in action, jump down to the bottom). This post is shorter than I intended it to be, because I kept wrestling with it and in the end decided that for...
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22 May

Legitimate & Utterly Useless Fear of Generative AI

⚪ This document is certified 100% AI-free ⚪ (It’s kind of a joke, and also it’s not) It’s not really surprising, but I’ve seen — like everybody else — the concern over AI rising in proportion to the ascendance...
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23 Mar

Burning Diffuse from Both Ends

Part one of an unknown length series If you stumbled onto this article and expect to learn something of AI in a traditional fashion, you might spend your time better elsewhere (even if that’s another article on this blog). Usually...
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15 Jul

Is a Neural Network of Glass an AI?

A recent publication in the Optical Society’s journal of Photonics Research demonstrates how certain computing tasks (referred to in the article as “artificial neural computing”) may be performed using a specially prepared sheet of glass (“nanophotonic medium”). For this...
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21 Dec

Software Changes the World?

Software changes the world. That’s the line. That’s the rule. That’s the reason we get into technology, to a large extent. We’re actively making the world a better place. Then why can it be so difficult to feel? If...
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