A new beginning

Hello and welcome to my new blog. Some may remember my original blog that was hosted for many years on a certain social networking site. Unfortunately it was lost to the ether as a result of an argument with a particularly crazy girlfriend and as a result of the falling standards of said social networking site to a level where everything was in pastel colours and aimed at telling the world what band you thought was hot.

Alas, it saddens me somewhat as I’m sure there must have been a few diamonds in the rough hidden in the mix. I few gems that I could have liked to remember 6th form by. And then for whatever reason, I haven’t really kept any record throughout university of my thoughts. Which isn’t to say I haven’t had them, or that I haven’t had the time (even though I’d like to delude myself into thinking it at times). It probably comes more from a place where I am to lazy to go through the hassle of creating a new one and going through the motions of keeping it updated, or from the fear of coming across as “emo”.

Nevertheless, a new blog is here. A new blog dedicated to my post­-university life. Which is somewhat of a cheat I know, for there is 9 days before my last exam but you get the point. Especially considering that the last exam is a 2nd year module, and is designed as an explanation to all the new freshers about the basics of lab work. No joke, 2 lectures were spent on IR spectra, which is a technique that I’ve been using now for 5 years. So if I cant pass that exam with one hand behind my back… (I wont jinx it)


This page previously appeared on morganbye.net[^1][^2][^3]

[^1:] http://morganbye.net/a-new-beginning [^2:] http://morganbye.net/2009/05/a-new-beginning) [^3:] http://morganbye.net/uncategorized/2009/05/a-new-beginning

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But AI is going to steal my job, right?

A year ago, the whole world was convinced that AI was going to steal their job. Now, the reality is that most people are thinking 'I wish this POC at work would go a bit faster to scan these PDFs'.

When am I going to get my self-driving car?

Humans are complicated. If we invented driving today - there's NO WAY IN HELL we'd let humans do it. They get distracted. They text their friends. They drink. They make mistakes. But the reality is, all of our streets, cities (and even legal systems) have been built around these limitations. It would be surprisingly easy to build self-driving cars if there were no humans on the road. But today no one wants to take liability. If a self-driving company kills someone, who's responsible? The manufacturer? The insurance company? The software developer?