I’ve been targeted by another ad now on Facebook, a “TikTok for smart people” So, as I’ve been doing several times recently – I asked ChatGPT to analyze it, and see if it can come up with a better alternative It suggested a daily prompt. I asked for an example. It came back with a few paragraphs about “Normalization of Deviance”. This example was fun to read, took me 4 mins to go through it, it suggested a book which…
I think by now I’ve run into several examples of AI helping small organizations in ways I didn’t fully appreciate were possible. 3 of them I can pinpoint. The first was right when ChatGPT came out. I won’t go into too many details, but I knew the leader of a small organization, who had an important employee on the verge of leaving. A large part of the problem was simply the amount of serious, tedious paperwork she had to deal…
2009, Eran Ketter and myself tried to predict how relevant will be the Academy to the Job market Eran was under the impression that a Masters degree would be almost mandatory for getting most jobs, though its contents may change drastically I was under the impression that the Academy as a whole would be less relevant I think neither of us predicted the job market will change so much And we were both skeptical about gmail’s survival 🙂 Funny enough,…
“Everybody wants to save the earth; nobody wants to help Mom do the dishes.” – O’Rourke, P.J. I’m dealing with some medical stuff in the last few days, and the dishes aren’t doing themselves… Thanks, love, very much appreciated
שוחחתי עם יהודה אטלס לפני בערך 15 שנה, ונדהמתי מכמה שהוא חד, ונוקב ואמפתי גם כשהוא מולי וחושב על הרגליים בזמן אמת. איך הוא יודע לפרק את הקישקע של עצמו ושל הקיום האנושי בכלל. ממש Force of Nature שנחת בעולמנו והצליח לגעת באלגנטיות בכל כך הרבה אנשים, בכל כך הרבה הקשרים. לימים, כשאהובה שמעה שהסייעת בגן עיקמה את האף לגבי איזה ספר על משפחות, הוא מיד הפך לספר החודש אצלנו בבית. ואיך לא, יהודה אטלס, באבחת טקסט קצר וקולע, הצליח…
Almost 20 years ago, I took a security course at the Technion taught by Orr Dunkelman. These days, I’m spending quite a bit of time on security aspects of LiveU’s products – and I’m surprised by just how relevant that course still is, nearly 20 years later. A lot of the fundamentals apparently don’t change, quite impressive.
Several times a day, I have to: Get up from my chair. Take my cup to the coffee machine. Press a button. Wait. Walk back to my chair. And at the end of the day, I still have to wash the cup. Can’t an Optimus bring me coffee already? We’re in 2026.* * Sometime around 2004, my friend Nadav complained to me: “We’re in 2004 already, and still…” His complaint was about Hebrew in Microsoft Word. Copy-paste something containing Hebrew…
A long time ago, a good friend told me about spending several weeks in Neot Smadar. Among other things, he was milking sheep. One morning, he noticed that if they organized the sheep in a line, the milking process could be much more efficient. He suggested it. The response was: “Yeah, but there’s more to life than efficiency optimization.”
The web started with static HTML files. Then everything became dynamic: blogs, CMSs, databases, backends. Now static is interesting again. For a lot of content, it’s faster, cheaper, simpler, and more secure. I’m writing this in a local WordPress installation, then exporting it as static HTML. After all that progress, I’m basically back to serving files.
2 management activities that I don’t enjoy as much – are planning, and summarizing. It feels to me like there’s an overhead involved in both of these activities that takes my energy out of the “actual work”. So, in the past several months I played around with the idea of “reverse journaling”. Which is like writing a journal, a summary, a review, but – doing it at the point in time where the planning usually takes place – before I…