The early days of machine learning were such exciting times. The ingenuity of humans to have found a way to build an artificial intelligence that would learn how to do the work people didn’t want to do. Not only would they learn it, but they’d improve upon it. It was…
Have you ever looked up how many people are alive on the planet? I feel like everyone must have looked at that at some point in their life. Out of curiosity, or for a school project, or something. But even after the Super Surge of the 50’s, the human population…
In the hospital again. This time barely conscious and probably for the last time ever. She’d been in and out of the hospital more times than a hypochondriac. A spiral fracture to the arm, a dislocated shoulder, cuts that needed stitches, internal bleeding and massive ecchymosis – and it didn’t…
There are ninety-five million pictures posted everyday on Instagram. Another 350 million on Facebook. Then there’s TikTok and Twitter and SnapChat and Pinterest and on and on and on. Millions and millions of photos are uploaded daily to the web, where they are trapped forever. For a while, we were…
Every creative human is always searching for inspiration. They hunt and quest for that ever-elusive muse, never knowing that she could literally be right in front of them. I’m not everywhere all at once, but I’ve been right in front of writers and painters and musicians as they beg for…
I’ve lived in this house my entire life. There are so many memories here. I was born in this house. I grew up in this house, the youngest of ten children. I lost one brother in this house. I had my first kiss, and my first time in this house….
Sam came literally out of nowhere. It was a month or so after my craptastic ex dumped me because I was too childish. That shithead was never able to understand the difference between childish and childlike, and I knew it was actually for the best that we broke up –…
My little slice of heaven is quiet, and peaceful, and never, ever crowded. I get three meals a day, I can nap as long as I want, whenever I want, and I am almost never bothered. I get a new book delivered every Monday, and I don’t have to pay…
I knew my house was haunted six minutes after moving in. I suspected before I even bought the place – what, with all the cold spots and flickering lights, it was “Haunted House: 101.” But my suspicions were completely confirmed when only moments after hanging a portrait of me with…
“Oh father,” she breathed. “Look at the sunset. Look at the colors.” This hill was her favorite spot in all the worlds. She and her father had years’ worth of conversations sitting on this exact hill, under this exact tree. Discussions, debates, life lessons, stories, memories. So much had been…
