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Advocating for classic AI over generative AI in business, because of reproducibility, scientific rigor, and reliability for mission-critical systems.

Doubling Down on Classic AI: Why I'm Betting on Science Over Spectacle in Business

AI currently has limits based on what we know. Humans can go beyond these limits, expanding their and others' boundaries of knowledge.

Human Creativity in the Age of AI: To be Genuinely Curious and SPECTACULARLY Useless or Wrong

Opinion piece: Amazon's upcoming reality show isn't just a knock-off Shark Tank. It's a pretty clever strategy aimed at dominating your future. Here's why.

Amazon’s ‘Buy It Now Bonanza’: The Shoppable Spectacle That’s Out to Make Your Wallet Weep

A satire article on a hypothetical stablecoin called "USDN for US Deez Nuts."

US Dollar-Pegged "USDN" (US Deez Nuts) Promises To Penetrate Volatile Market, Fails Spectacularly

Experience the revival of "Swish," RTV's beloved children's musical theater series formerly known as "Pesta Sahabat."

Swish Returns: RTV's Musical Theater Spectacle Makes a Comeback

Today, I'm excited to share my first "Today I Learned" entry as I embark on my coding journey with the Sparta Coding Club.

My First Week With the Sparta Coding Club - Today I Learned

The effect was magical! It was the name of the islands on which La Perouse had been lost! I rose suddenly.

This terrible spectacle was the forerunner of the series of maritime catastrophes

In all the field of spectacular lighting the superiority of artificial light over natural light is demonstrated.

SPECTACULAR LIGHTING

Zossimov was a tall, fat man with a puffy, colourless, clean-shaven face and straight flaxen hair.

Zossimov Was a Tall, Fat Man With a Spectacle

The narrow sickle of the new moon, hanging above the sunset, is a charming telescopic sight.

THE MOUNTAINS AND PLAINS OF THE MOON, AND THE SPECTACLES OF THE SUN

The collapse of FTX offers important lessons on accounting, true decentralization, and the need for corporate governance.

The Spectacular Collapse that Keeps on Teaching: More Lessons From the FTX Failure  

With the DeFi revolution ramping up, the cryptocurrency community has witnessed the rise of stablecoins.  Tether has been investigated and fined by the CFTC...

SperaxUSD: A Crypto-Collateralized Stablecoin Challenging Tether

The 3D model of the Earth is perfect for designing creative web projects cause it's easy to display data on it. Thanks to many data API's it's easy to access data like population, countries, cities, geo-coordinates, health data, education, etc. Here I have compiled my favorite 3D Globe projects.


Need Inspiration? Here are 5 Spectacular Online 3D Globe Projects to Do Just That

Last year, I did a talk, as part of orienting a team of automotive executives in modern way of iterative working, challenging the prevailing belief that perfect pre-planning backed by big money will always be a clear winner. I used a bunch of highly hyped tech failures to drive the point home. The talk inspired great discussions, and led to sea change in how we ended up working together afterwards. I hope you will find it equally stimulating.

Learnings from the Big Market Tech Failures of Zune, Fire Phone, Windows Phone and Snap Spectacles 

What’s the first thing that comes to mind when you hear art? It likely falls in the bucket of visual and performing arts, music or fashion: a Banksy painting (or whatever remains of it), ballet performance or a Kendrick Lamar song.

A Spectacle of Art & Tech at MIT — Hacking Arts 2018

Monitor your web server performance and health, in real-time, with <a href="https://my-netdata.io/" target="_blank">netdata</a>. <a href="https://london.my-netdata.io/default.html#menu_web_log_nginx_netdata" target="_blank">Check the live demo</a>.

The spectacles of a web server log file

When I first came across <a href="http://formidable.com/open-source/spectacle/" target="_blank">Spectacle</a>, I liked how easy it was to get started and that it’s built with React. I write React code on a daily basis and why not use it to create presentations? All went well for a while until I realized that the&nbsp;./presentation/index.js file started to exceed a few hundred lines.

Presentations With Spectacle — How I Modularize My Deck

After lots of hustling, I’ve finally acquired a pair of <a href="https://www.spectacles.com/" target="_blank">Snapchat Spectacles</a> — something that’s difficult to do when you’re living/working in Thailand. It involved hiring a TaskRabbit to wait in line for hours at Snapchat’s popup store in NYC to buy the Spectacles, express <a href="https://hackernoon.com/tagged/shipping" target="_blank">shipping</a> from NYC to SF days before Christmas, and a friend visiting Thailand for New Year’s Eve to hand deliver them to me. Now that I’ve had them for a few days, I figured I’d share my initial impressions and thoughts on their potential.

Snapchat Spectacles — initial impressions and the potential future

For many years I’ve wanted glasses that would help me observe and record what I see and hear in the world — but in a polite way that would respect the privacy of others. Since nobody has made anything like that (that I know of) I decided to <a href="https://blogs.harvard.edu/doc/2014/01/29/searls-glasses-vs-google-glass/" target="_blank">publish my idea</a>, back in January of ’14, back when <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Glass" target="_blank">Google Glasses</a> <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=google+glass#newwindow=1&amp;q=google+glass&amp;safe=off&amp;tbm=nws" target="_blank">were all the rage</a> (in more than one meaning of the word, since they were famously oblivious to the privacy of others).

An open and privacy-respecting design for a Snap Spectacles alternative

<a href="https://hackernoon.com/tagged/snapchat" target="_blank">Snapchat</a> announced Spectacles, their first hardware product, last Friday evening. Despite being the first hardware effort from our current social darlings, Evan Spiegel and company seem to be playing down the product. In <a href="http://www.wsj.com/articles/snapchat-releases-first-hardware-product-spectacles-1474682719" target="_blank">a Wall Street Journal feature</a> on Snap, only a handful of paragraphs touch on Spectacles. One section sandbags the entire effort:

Spectacles are the Anti-Glass

Explore why IQ tests are trainable proxies, how mass schooling was designed for obedience, and why the real test of intelligence is simply getting what you want

Mass Schooling Invented “Smart” and “Dumb”: Here's How It Happened

An analysis of why AI infrastructure became centralized, what technical constraints shaped that outcome, and why those assumptions may no longer hold.

If AI is Centralized Today, Is It A Law of Nature? No, It's Not

A roundup of 10 standout C and C++ bugs found in open-source projects in 2025.

10 Noteworthy C and C++ Bugs Found in Open-Source Projects in 2025

Build intelligent load balancing on GCP for Python microservices using GKE, NEGs, readiness probes, autoscaling, and observability to cut failures.

How to Build a Cloud-Native SaaS Backend on GCP

Sperta helps financial services and tech companies automate decisions and manage fraud, credit, and compliance risks.

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Doubling Down on Classic AI: Why I'm Betting on Science Over Spectacle in Business

Human Creativity in the Age of AI: To be Genuinely Curious and SPECTACULARLY Useless or Wrong

Amazon’s ‘Buy It Now Bonanza’: The Shoppable Spectacle That’s Out to Make Your Wallet Weep

US Dollar-Pegged "USDN" (US Deez Nuts) Promises To Penetrate Volatile Market, Fails Spectacularly

Swish Returns: RTV's Musical Theater Spectacle Makes a Comeback

My First Week With the Sparta Coding Club - Today I Learned

This terrible spectacle was the forerunner of the series of maritime catastrophes

SPECTACULAR LIGHTING

Zossimov Was a Tall, Fat Man With a Spectacle

THE MOUNTAINS AND PLAINS OF THE MOON, AND THE SPECTACLES OF THE SUN

The Spectacular Collapse that Keeps on Teaching: More Lessons From the FTX Failure

SperaxUSD: A Crypto-Collateralized Stablecoin Challenging Tether

Need Inspiration? Here are 5 Spectacular Online 3D Globe Projects to Do Just That

Learnings from the Big Market Tech Failures of Zune, Fire Phone, Windows Phone and Snap Spectacles

A Spectacle of Art & Tech at MIT — Hacking Arts 2018

The spectacles of a web server log file

Presentations With Spectacle — How I Modularize My Deck

Snapchat Spectacles — initial impressions and the potential future

An open and privacy-respecting design for a Snap Spectacles alternative

Spectacles are the Anti-Glass

Mass Schooling Invented “Smart” and “Dumb”: Here's How It Happened

If AI is Centralized Today, Is It A Law of Nature? No, It's Not

10 Noteworthy C and C++ Bugs Found in Open-Source Projects in 2025

How to Build a Cloud-Native SaaS Backend on GCP

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