The Trump administration’s Transportation Department is withholding federal funding of a project to modernize Silicon Valley’s light rail system. The New York Times says Trump is breaking a campaign promise about rebuilding America’s infrastructure. The question is, why should Washington have to fund California’s transit system? Turns out, the Golden[…] Read On
When Bob Dylan wrote “The Times They Are A-Changin’,” I’m pretty sure he meant for the better. As visionary as the singer was, he could not have foreseen the crazy cultural change that a 24×7 connected world would bring. Don’t get me wrong; I’m no Luddite. I grew up in[…] Read On
Some people never fail. They’re the ones with no aspirations, no will to excel, no guts. Hopefully, everyone reading this fails. Repeatedly. Still, we’re all tempted to put failure behind us and forget it ever happened. To get that bitter taste out of our mouths before it does any real[…] Read On
Yahoo’s popular photo sharing site Flickr just rolled out a very cool feature called “similarity search” that allows you to find pictures that are visually similar without you having to enter any text. The tool uses a neural network-based search engine to recognize similarities in images. For example, if you search for “dog,”[…] Read On
Getting out of the shower after a long trail run in the woods, I felt a sharp pain in my back, right between the shoulder blades. Craning my neck and looking awkwardly in the mirror, I saw a red splotch with a tiny black dot in the middle and instantly[…] Read On
Every Friday on his way home from work, alone with his thoughts, Matt would replay the week’s frustrations over in his mind. He wasn’t even aware of it; the voices in his head just sort of took over. The chatter was practically deafening. And every Friday evening like clockwork, he[…] Read On