Book Review: The Signals are Talking by Amy Webb

I've set myself the goal of reading a book a week, and writing a brief review of it - to evaluate and cement my thoughts on it, not because I want to become a book critic. This week I read "The Signals are Talking", by Amy Webb. The author is a quantative futurist, which I guess … Continue reading Book Review: The Signals are Talking by Amy Webb →

Book Review: Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker

So I'm a bit of a workaholic. My wife, gently seeking to change this, sent me an episode of Joe Rogan's podcast, this episode. The podcast is an interview with Matthew Walker, a sleep scientist (pretty sure he's Dr Matthew Walker, non-medical, but he doesn't seem to make a big deal out of that). Lets … Continue reading Book Review: Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker →

GPU-accelerated Photo processing

Seems a bit passé right? Well apparently not. Apparently using the GPU to do all the heavy lifting isn't something that the popular photography applications do. Lightroom and Photoshop have some GPU acceleration, but apparently Lightroom doesn't really benefit unless you have a big display (I guess they do all their rendering on a smaller … Continue reading GPU-accelerated Photo processing →