As AI is already outperforming many human tasks it can be disruptive for many communities. I think it would be hard to stop or significantly slow down its advancement. AI is definitely also creating new opportunities as many jobs are also being aided by AI tools. At least something that would be definitely damaging is if all the tech behind it becomes proprietary. So I think it is great that more ground breaking open-source AI tools are being developed.

I think the Rok is a great espresso machine. There is something very satisfying about pressing down those arms and producing espresso. However it comes with many small problems that don't appear to have well documented solutions. I hope this helps another Rok user out there.

Lately I have been into espresso. It is an expensive hobby so I thought I would try to go budget & eco without cutting too much corners on quality. Parts of the espresso making process can be automized by an expensive machine. Boiling water and creating pressure would be the most common automized processes. But of course you can do those manually.

Nowadays I have some projects that require a bit more computation power than usual. So I had the nice opportunity to build a stationary computation horse. My current mindset is that laptops are not really that useful as something to do computations on from an investment perspective. It is much more cost-effective to have good mobile internet, a weak laptop with long battery-life and a stationary machine somewhere in the world into which you remotely login to for your heavy lifting. Another practical requirement for the laptop is that it is light and has a replaceable battery. I am a big fan of the ThinkPad X series. (The T430 or T530 will always have a special place in my heart. But alas it is too heavy for me now. Of course this makes them most suitable as a murder weapon if somebody insults your machine.)

A long while back I wrote a post about how unbiased randomness gives rise to extreme inequality. The underlying dynamics is that a few individuals have a lucky streak. This lucky streak results in an advantage which gives rise to a snowballing effect that leads to an inequal distribution where only a few individuals have the vast majority of all the wealth. An additional idea with which we could extend the system is seeing how unfair initial conditions affect wealth.

In the last year we have experienced extreme rates of inflation as we have an upward pressure on energy and food and a decline in export as a result of Covid and the war in Ukraine. As this normalizes how will this effect your savings if you are in the EU?