Published in Age of Awareness·PinnedProfessors as Creators — how the Creator Economy could transform educationWhen choosing a university to attend, which factors do prospective students look for the most? The brand and reputation of the school, it’s facilities, accommodation, culture, available courses, academic rankings, and the kind. What you’d find in an average prospectus. Few people care about the professors who teach the subject…Education4 min readEducation4 min read
Mar 17I played chess against ChatGPT-4 and lost!GPT-4 will change the world. — Last December, I played a few chess games against ChatGPT. These always ended the same way: ChatGPT would play an accurate opening, until it forgot where its pieces were and started playing illegal moves, with full confidence of course. The truth is, GPT-3 does not know how to play chess…Chatgpt5 min readChatgpt5 min read
Published in Mobile App Circular·Feb 27Why remote work is here to stayTheory of efficient markets applies to the job market as well. — Feeling Zoomed out? Annoyed by the unresponsiveness of coworkers on Slack? Wish we’d all go back to the office like the adults we are? You are not alone. Many bosses seem to agree, and have mandated a return to the office for a set number of days per week. Meanwhile…Technology3 min readTechnology3 min read
Published in Mobile App Circular·Feb 22Tech is dead. Long live the tech industry!Is the tech industry’s downturn an existential risk for engineers? — When I first moved to the United Kingdom in 2016, one of my first tasks was to open a bank account. At the time, this involved visiting a bank branch and listening to a sales pitch from a lovely account manager whose heavy Scottish accent I struggled to understand. After…Technology6 min readTechnology6 min read
Dec 7, 2022I played chess against ChatGPTCan the world’s most famous language model defeat a software engineer? — ChatGPT is a large language model designed for conversation, that Twitter users around the world have found scarily human-like in its answers. The AI model doesn’t only answer generic questions about facts, but it can also write accurate code in multiple programming languages, as well as debug code written by…Artificial Intelligence6 min readArtificial Intelligence6 min read
Published in Coinmonks·Oct 24, 2022Decentralisation, crypto, and youWhy reducing decentralisation could reduce risks in DeFi and Web3, and widen their appeal beyond early adopters. — There’s an inherent trade-off between decentralisation and the ability to coordinate things: the fewer participants, the easier it is to agree on anything. This is why democracies elect representatives to form a government instead of deciding everything in referendums: to have everyone agree on every detail in laws and budgets…Defi6 min readDefi6 min read
Sep 20, 2022Known and unknown unknownsThere are two kinds things we don’t know: known and unknown unknowns. Learning about the first kind is easy: just pick up a book, sign up for a course, or ask someone who knows to teach the answer to you. If you want to play chess but don’t know how…Education3 min readEducation3 min read
Apr 27, 2022Blockchains and interoperability — the case for crypto as social innovationIs crypto a technological revolution that will remake the world in its image, just like the internet and iPhone did? — If you’re reading this article, you probably need no explanation into what crypto or blockchain technology is (if so, feel free to skip to the next part). But to recap, a blockchain is an append-only transaction log that guarantees the immutability of transactions in previous blocks. This guarantee is protected…Blockchain13 min readBlockchain13 min read
Published in Level Up Coding·Mar 22, 2022Better error handling in Golang: Theory and practical tipsHere’s why Go uses returned errors over exceptions — How should a programming language treat errors? For example, a function that opens a file with a given name and reads it to a buffer could fail for many reasons: the file might not exist, the opening program might lack permissions to open it, or it could be too large…Golang8 min readGolang8 min read
Jun 5, 2021Social media has become antisocial — here’s how to save itThink small — Why is it so hard to make friends online? It’s perhaps a strange question to ask: most of us aren’t used to interacting closely with strangers on the internet. But we spend hours of our time each day browsing the web, often in sites specifically labelled as “social media”. How…Social Media6 min readSocial Media6 min read
