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To update or not to update, that is the question
Picking up a coding project that I haven’t touched for a year or two, I have come to expect that nothing about it still works and I need to update all of its components and my code to get it to work again. I didn’t realize how strange this was until I compared it to other things. If I leave a book unattended for many years, it won’t just fall apart for no reason and if I pick up my camera after a few years, it will still take pictures.
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Cloud Computing is the Future (But not Game Streaming)
No one nowadays buys a generator to generate electricity; rather, we buy it as a finished product from power plants delivered through the grid, but why is it that people still buy computers instead of buying the finished product, which is computing power delivered through the internet?
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Why Decentralised Web Fails
Recently, or rather a few years ago, there has been quite some buzz with web 3.0 powered by blockchain. To me, this is complete nonsense. Technology before blockchain is more than enough to enable a decentralized web. Decentralization did not happen rather because it is inefficient and therefore outcompeted by centralization.
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Launching of Bi-Weekly Blog Posts
I wanted to start writing a blog post every two weeks for a long time but I kept delaying it. Recent events with the YouTube channel Linus Tech Tips pushed me to finally publish this blog post.
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How big is the universe? It's so big that it's bigger than itself. (Russell's Paradox)
We investigate infinity with set theory, which deals with sets - collections of things, like the set of all natural numbers and the set of all polygons. Sets can contain anything (including sets) and can be however large. But even though a set can be easily larger than the entire physical (not just the observable) universe, there are sets that are too large to be a set. One of them is the set of everything (a.k.a. the universal set). Known as the Russell’s Paradox, the proof itself is as spectacular as the result: the attempt to create a foundation for math through set theory accidentally created a creature too large to be contained.