A personal blog about whatever comes to mind
Please, stop calling these things “AI” What the media currently calls “AI” is actually a far cry from the sci-fi concept we associate with the word. Although artificial, ChatGPT et al are not intelligent, and treating this kind of technology as if it has thoughts and understands meaning, and other abstract concepts only overestimates what…
I’ve been thinking for a few years now how most of the issues we see in creative industries, including video game development, stem from the fact a lot of managers and executives think these industries can “scale” just like manufacturing does, which also explains why they are so keen in adopting AI. And, like, I’m…
I’ve seen this Reddit post, which makes a great point, and I think more people should read it. I’ll just quote the whole post here, in case Reddit ever disappears into the void. I won’t add anything else to it because it already says enough, in my humble opinion. I’ve been seeing this type of post…
One thing I never thought I would miss is… leaving windows and doors open in the house during the day/night while working, year-round. Like, insulation in Brazil is non-existent (reminder: insulation also helps to keep a place cool when it’s hot), so people just leave windows and doors open to create an airflow inside their…
I don’t like writing by hand. It’s slow, it’s clunky, it’s not indexable or searchable, it consumes physical materials, and requires physical space. Digital note-taking, though, isn’t automatically better. I used to save drafts, links, images, and whatever else on OneNote and it was fast, but it became pure chaos of random things kinda-categorized-but-not-really, and…
A trip down the memory lane There was a time when the genre of “MMORPGs” had more variety than just another copy-paste version of a single-player game story that you go through with a bunch of people over the internet, which is the common formula used today. I wish that the genre had gone in…
Messing around with Decker and Twine is making me realize I don’t necessarily hate coding, I hate dealing with tables, arrays, matrices, and things like that. 20 years ago I got into a Computer Engineering major in a local college and, to be honest, it was quite alright. I was a good student and got good grades, but hated…
Over the last few months, I’ve started to realize that I’m a very visual person, which is funny for someone who’s nearsighted, has a bit of facial blindness, and probably has aphantasia or something similar. When I started making music as a hobby, years ago, I trialed many different DAWs. Almost all of them have…
It was not a great car. I mean, it’s a Mazda, so it’s pretty good overall, but it was a vehicle from 2003. That’s the last year Mazda made the 323 before switching to the Mazda3. So, great car all around, except for this particular one, which had gone around more than 200,000 kilometers before…
Why does changing streaming services, or even music player software, have to be an experience so hostile? The first time I moved from one “music service” to another was when I moved from Winamp to iTunes. Heresy, I know, but my music collection was growing fast and I wanted an easy way to manage all…