Every now and then, you see people talk about how Blockbuster not buying Netflix was one of the worst financial decisions in history. That's arguable, but what people are usually trying to say is that Blockbuster made a stupid decision, and anybody with a brain would have taken the deal …

Lately, I've been flirting with the idea of making a game engine to evaluate Brazilian Draughts, which I plan to do with alpha-beta pruning. Since I might be spending a bit of time working on tree searches, I want to write about something that I've noticed for a while: whenever …

The blackout seemed to have taken the internet by storm, but not much has been heard about it since. Now that things seem to have mostly been resolved, I want to give an overview of what happened and my thoughts about it all.

Why The Blackout Happened

In case you …

Yesterday, I went on the shortest walk I've been on in months. The smoke from the forest fires not too far from my town was extremely bad, so my eyes began to burn after just a few minutes outside. Growing up, I assumed that we would have figured out global …

I was taking a look at my old GBA, and I couldn't help but think about how much technology has advanced since it came out. It's been 20 years since that came out, so according to Moore's Law, modern hardware is 1024x better now. Seriously, our phones are better than …

While I was watching yesterday's MrBeast video, I noticed that the picture from Chris's coming out tweet was taken while filming for the $1,000,000 yacht. That tweet came out April 27, so MrBeast waited over a month to upload this video. I know that you need to edit …

I've noticed that a lot of posts I make here tend to be negative, so I decided to write about something that I like. If you don't know, Draughts is a family of games centred around diagonally moving pieces. If that sounds like Checkers, that's because Checkers is just an …

I entered a Kaggle competition, and I noticed that nobody from Crimea, the Donetsk People's Republic, or the Luhansk People's Republic was allowed to enter. This is obviously part of the sanctions over the Russo-Ukrainian war, but they don't actually ban Russian residents from entering. What was the point of …

I think Tiktok was one of the worst things to happen to the internet. Social media and the like have always been bad for you, but short form content like literally everything found on Tiktok is like cyanide for your attention span. I refuse to use the app, but it's …

With all the hype (and fear) about ChatGPT and existential threats caused by AI, I think it'd be good for society as a whole to take a step back and calmly analyse what AI are. No matter how advanced they are, they're just really big equations filled with matrix multiplication …