Digest #3 🥳
Happy almost Birthday to me!
I know you’ll find something interesting to read in issue #3 of The Wirepine Weekly Digest!
I’ve written 13 articles since Valentines Day’s Digest #2 and boy are they all over the place.
Tech remains the common thread. Always looking forward, often connecting what’s coming to what’s gone by. My most popular article - by a long shot - was that with a dab of philosophy:
Another thing they all have in common is me. It me! Me, the one with a birthday in 2 days. This one was popular combining folly of youth (smol Andrew) along with exciting stuff like gains in Solar Power:
I learned the most in this one about quantum computing. Never had the time to really dig in here and wow:
I started writing some more personal stuff building on little Andrew playing with electricity and into my nightmares and last week’s which is the story of a big project early in my career that unexpectedly went completely sideways:
Here are all 13. Read one if not for you but for me on my birthday. Ok my birthday is on Sunday if you must know.
In reverse chronological order:
46: Three not-so-wise Monkeys 🙈🙉🙊 An adventure from early in my career with an ending that is now surprisingly relevant with this week’s announcement of OpenAIs improved model romantically named ChatGPT-4o
45: Why I have nightmares - so … many … business … trips … I … can’t … even 😱
44: Dr. Evil and the $100 Billion AI - tracing the rise of the ever-bigger datatcenter and the evolution of the cloud and its enablement of AI now, AGI soon? 🤖
43: Help me pick a new logo - believe it or not, Wirepine is nearly a year old so stay tuned for rebrand/retune/relaunch of my website this summer and of course Vote 4 SWAG!
42: What, no Aliens? This one triggered a lot of conversation, and it may make your head hurt but really, where are they?? 👽
41: The time I nearly electrocuted myself - including my college fail building an alarm clock and oh the amazing power of solar 🌞
40: A qubit walks into a bar - understand - at least a little - about the crazy world of quantum mechanics and how it will power the next generation of computing (and AI) ⚛️
39: Change comes at you - this one struck a chord and I think it might be because my writing is getting better? 📚
38: Three dumpster fires - Google, TikTok, SpaceX. Two months later I’m still three for three 🔥🔥🔥
37: Too Many Trunks - where the artifacts of our digital lives end up 💾
36: Compress the learning curve - another one that seems quaintly prescient in the just over 2 months since I wrote it. Check this week’s Khan Academy video of AI teaching Algebra.
35: Games People Play - the evolution of computer games and the competition of computers to beat themselves (and humans) at said games 🎮
34: Lost and Found - an homage to the magic of the Internet of old while looking ahead to the promise of new tech 🌐
Read and share with a friend. Did I mention it’s almost my birthday? 🎉
best, Andrew
Happy Almost Birthday. I like the AI generated image of the book in this week's post.