attention on S Anand

Things I know and things I don't

Sun, 04 May 2025 11:03:53 +0000

We all have stuff we know well and don’t. I know the % charge on my phone to within a few percent and the current time to within a few minutes – no matter when you ask. But I have no idea how much money there is in my pocket.

Things I know within 5% error	Things I get wrong by ~500%
Current time	Time to finish my current task
My weight	My next meal
% charge on my phone	How long the phone will last
Number of unread emails	Time to clear them
Price of my next earphones	Cash in my wallet
Length of this list	How long it will go before I stop

But this apart, it turns out generating xkcd style comic strips is harder than I thought.

Gemini Flash 2.0 (Image Generation) Experimental gets it mostly right, though.

Wed, 30 Apr 2025 13:49:26 +0000

People still write?

Fri, 17 Jan 2025 03:06:00 +0000

Wow. Every SINGLE person in the audience at this (Healthcare Education, Singapore) conference was on a laptop, tablet, or mobile. Some on multiple devices.

I guess this is the new model of learning and listening.

The only people who were NOT on a device were on stage. The speakers.

I guess it’s up to me to fix that 🙂

Human memory capacity is about filters not storage

Mon, 05 Dec 2005 12:00:00 +0000

Human memory capacity is about filters, not storage.