Tag: Kill

Growing up a Star Trek fan I believe we can create a better society tomorrow. I subscribe to Pinker’s Better Angels theory, despite some occasional backslides encountered on the road of history. As such, I see AI bringing a better future — in the long run. In the short term, it’s g...

I’ve written an article analyzing how Google Bard will destroy ChatGPT because it’s a long-term game, and Google has the upper hand in terms of market dominance. ChatGPT has a better product, but that doesn’t mean they’ll win the long race. This was quite the trending arti...

Meetings, ugh. Even those of us who like a good meeting have plenty of experience sitting through painful, boring, poorly-run meetings that seem to exist only to waste our time. Engineers hate meetings: they take you out of flow and (in the pre-remote days) away from your monitors so that you can li...

Cleopatra VII, born between 69 and 68 BC, came from the Ptolemaic dynasty, a family of Greek origin that ruled Egypt after Alexander the Great’s conquest. She fully embraced Egyptian culture and language, unlike her ancestors. She became queen after her father, Ptolemy XII, died in 51 BC. S...

News of San Francisco’s decline is everywhere — articles abound discussing homelessness, drug abuse, crime, economic decline, and more. Walk through downtown San Francisco and all the contradictions are visible, often side-by-side — the history (spanning Spanish...

Do you and I each have an “inner George Wallace” in us? George Wallace was the 1960s-era Alabama governor who viciously defended segregation. He went so far as to physically block black students from entering the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa. It was during his reign that state ...

Understanding the mindset of a killer is a complex endeavor that has puzzled psychologists, criminologists, and law enforcement professionals for decades. The psychological landscape of an individual who commits homicide can vary greatly depending on the nature of the crime, personal history, and a ...

Most of us know that pearls come from oysters, those shelled mollusks of the sea. (Pedantically, this isn’t quite true; the oysters we eat can create pearls, but most jewelry pearls actually come from other species of mollusks that are not oysters. I may still refer to these creatures as oyste...

“How many jobs can I have?” asked my six-year-old daughter, Livia. “Most people have just one, why?” I replied. “It’s just that I like teaching, but I also like the supermarket and stationery shop; I could do something different every day.” Livia, who spe...

I was eight years old the first time I swallowed a Percoset. I lost count of how many times I was handed them… or Oxy… or Vicodin… before I even reached ten. They made me itchy but there was something about that itch. I liked it. A prepubescent pillhead. That’s a more a...

Lord Parashuram is considered as the sixth incarnation of Lord Vishnu. It is famous for them that they destroyed the then tyrannical and autocratic Kshatriyas 21 times. But do you know why Lord Parashuram did this? This gives an interesting mythology - The King of the city of Mahishmati...