During a discussion recently on participation of people in study groups, one of the comments was people were ‘disappearing’ during the study session, and not asking questions. While the former is true and some people just click join and do something else, the second got me to think, about why some people don’t (or do)…
Recently the study group I joined was talking about minor accidents and it was a good exercise to go through these cases reported by Rail Accident and Investigation Branch (RAIB), because these accidents most of the time are caused by similar underlying causes, and in left unchecked, will cause more serious accidents. If we look…
Yesterday I complained to my wife that I don’t really like signalling railway, not the way some of my colleagues or the people I meet in the industry. I then went on that I don’t really adore engineering, either mechanical engineering such as automotive, where some people know the horsepower of the new concept car…
I read a newsletter where it was rumoured/assumed that people were faking AI. How weird, and it turned out that wasn’t true. Now if people were using AI to fake things up, that is quite common nowadays. Videos or audios of people, especially famous ones, can be easily created. But there’s almost always a slight…
When I was in school, I believed that there can be intelligence without the ability to explain, but nowadays I think that although that can still be true, the ability to explain is a greater sign of intelligence. Because sometimes you think you’ve understood it in your mind but when you try to explain it…
Or rather the absence of logic! Coincidental to OpenAI having problems with ChatGPT today, this morning I stumbled upon this funny reply from ChatGPT. It began with me finding an old planner that I have not used, from 2022. Not wanting to waste it, I thought it would be useful if the dates still match…
Sometimes, some days, you feel a bit slow or unmotivated to do things. Some days, some people are very opposed to an instruction, that they question everything. Both of these situations are the extremes, and are different aspects of approaching things, but both do not get the job done. I think it is important to…
I heard the sad news of my secondary school teacher who passed away yesterday, on Friday, while doing Haj in Makkah. In Islam, that is a sign of a good ending and although no one knows the predicament that a person will face in the next life, i.e. barzakh, that is a good ending as…
I am rearranging some furniture around the house to accommodate some work arrangements and all these are starting to annoy me. I just want a place to do some extra work, and the challenge of finding an arrangement that – works for me, works for the family, is suitable for both summer and winter, and…
My daughter has a few close friends from school, whom she calls BFFs, and they share similar interests like artsy stuff, reading books and something else which I don’t pretend I know. But sometimes she does relate about how her friends do this or that differently compared to her doing it, so despite their similarities,…
