This time we explore the wonderful world of ultra-locality in decision-making and its connection to free will, good, evil, and God. Part One: Ultra-locality and Free Will The same Joscha Bach: Life, Intelligence, Consciousness, AI & the Future of Humans | Lex Fridman Podcast #392 podcast I mentioned in the previous post AI, people, trees, and mushrooms: the same software different hardware triggered another chain of thought. Joscha was talking about how our neurons always operate using data available right here and right now. That is enough to build complex systems like the human brain. Working together, neurons form parts responsible for memories, image processing, data buses, etc. But ultimately, each of them individually works only with data provided by other neurons. In a similar fashion, neural networks in GPTs are just a multiplication of matrices connected with each other, forming memories, attention, generation, etc. ...

Exploring the idea that all living things have spirit or the ability to run neurological signals. Recently, I listened to Joscha Bach: Life, Intelligence, Consciousness, AI & the Future of Humans | Lex Fridman Podcast #392 where Joscha and Lex discussed different ideas about consciousness, neurology, and AI. At one point, they talked about the ability of all types of cells to process neurological signals. The key difference is that neurons can process data much faster, over longer distances, and interact with more neighbors at once. ...

For quite some time, a few thoughts have been haunting me. What if all we see doesn’t exist, and we are all hostages or participants of a game. The Beginning: The Matrix and Rick and Morty It all started a while ago. In high school, I was into cyberpunk, reading and watching about hackers, virtual reality, etc. Neuromancer, Johnny Mnemonic by William Gibson, Labyrinth of Reflections by Sergei Lukyanenko, The Matrix, and The Lawnmower Man were my go-to entertainment. Then I forgot about it until the recent generative AI explosion and… a few episodes of Rick and Morty. In one episode, Morty plays a VR game where he starts as a newborn with no memories of life outside the game and lives an entire life until he dies at 60-80 years old. In another episode, he gets stuck in a game where his consciousness is fragmented into pieces, acting as an entire world of independent agents. ...

Amazon is famous for its writing culture which I discovered later in my career. The more I wrote the easier it was to apply the similar approach to other aspects of software development. Introduction When I joined Amazon, I transitioned from a company with a markedly different culture, particularly in writing and development processes. Initially, my feelings toward Amazon’s writing-centric culture were skeptical. However, over the next seven years, I gradually embraced and excelled in the Amazon style of writing. ...

In the last few years companies try to connect everything to the internet and make everything be software defined from door bells, and photo cameras to cars. There are a few bad things about it. These days every teeny-tiny piece of technology tries to be connected to the internet. This is usually sold by large, and not some large companies as some sort of convince so you can control everything from everywhere. The approach has its pluses but it also has its minuses. The shiny technological all connected future does not seem to me as appealing as we are told. ...

There are two types of adjectives i and na and …. some peculiarities. I’m not an expert in Japanese phonetics just love to learn new things like …. you know Japanese. So it is just how I perceive the language. Also everything is simplified to the level when it can be understood by everyone. There are two types of adjectives in Japanese: i-adjectives and na-adjectives. The types are named by the sound which connects an adjective and a noun. These two types are interesting because they conjugate differently. Na-ones act more like nouns and i-adjective have their own way. ...

In my coding interviews I often use a simplified version of this challenge from Leetcode. The simplified version I use: Given two strings s and p, return true if s contains an anagram for p. I like this task because the solution and be improved little by little and there are a lot things to discuss. From algorithmic complexity to CPU cache level optimization. Here I want to walk you through how I solved that challenge for the first time. ...

The second part of the book focuses on different callables. You will know about type hints for Callables, protocols, closures, decorators and other related things.

I’ve just finished reading the first part of the Fluent Python book and it is so exciting that I decided to write about the largest gems I discovered in the book.