I hope Donald Trump wins the US election and here’s why: First, he’s a ton more fun than Hillary. He’d make politics much more amusing than some boring politician that’s pretty much a continuation of the Obama regime and Clinton regime in one. Second, it doesn’t matter who’s actually in office; Obama has had a hostile […]
When most people think of the dangers of artificial intelligence, this is probably more or less what comes to mind: Computer-literates and paranoids might raise (legitimate) privacy concerns and mention uncomfortable cases like the teenager whose parents learned she was pregnant when a machine learning algorithm started sending her parenting advertisements based on her purchasing […]
Hats off for Withings – their customer support excellent – less than an hour after I sent a mail to their support, I got a response from Victor, who shall remain anonymous. I tried ordering again but with initially little luck. In the end, my order went thru, and I decided to share my experience […]
A bunch of time ago, I ordered a Withings scale which can connect to the internet. I’ve been largely happy with it, and when they released a new one a couple months ago, I had half a mind to get one, but it was conveniently never included in their (rather frequent) promotions, and even I […]
If hot weather and ice cream sales are correlated (which they are), we cannot conclude that ice cream sale causes hot weather. Or I’ve must found a very tasty way of getting rid of winter depressions […]
Note: this is based on a (fairly late) preview of iOS X; the behavior outlined has changed slightly in one of the earlier betas and might change again before final release. Hopefully this will change again before the final release, because the current behavior is literally worse than Stalin. Apple has been struggling with widgets for […]