Hi! I'm a human, not a bot.
The internet is not dead. There are still people out there, and I am one of them.
My name is Pietro. I remember being given a username as a child: pietrod (Pietro D.). It
sounded like pietroid, so I adopted it ever since. Ironic, a bot name comes from my human name.
Whatever,
Under the era of mechanized life, everything is just an automatic process. But life is not
automatic,
it's chaotic and ever changing.
"I Ching - The book of changes". When I read it briefly, talking about Yin-Yang, I couldn't not
think
about the
nature of computer science. What is a modern computer if not the simplest representation of change?
0 vs 1.
"I'm a programmer, so everything is just yes or no". I heard someone saying that once. I was
horrified. The exact point of computer science is to be able to create higher abstractions out of 0
or
1. Why do we have data types, data structures, etc?
We are mistaking tool by the goal. The tool is binary, but the goal is to solve human problems. When
we mistake it, we are trying to shape reality to fit the tool. Imagine if the 1970s engineers said
that
they couldn't go to the moon because the universe was not binary.
Our goal should be to solve HUMAN problems. Machines are just ways to direct our energy,
but the information comes purely from us. If artificial intelligences were not fed with thousands
and
thousands of years of culture and human knowledge, it couldn't generate much thing alone.
Culture: It's our ordered chaos, the human experience integrated across all generations. Past lifes
have
condensed as petroleum of wisdom, and it is now a rich
material for data processers. The knowledge is not in the data itself, it's in how we translate
those
data
into our humane, day-to-day life.
That's precisely why I like to hear stories, and to tell stories (getting better at
this). That's why I'm here, trying to share a little bit of my own stories on software engineering,
mathematics, philosophy, and whatever comes to mind.
In the era of lifeless automatons where creativity barely exists, maybe this blog gives a little bit
of
hope and pleasure from what we do.
About me
⚙️ Mechatronics Engineer, working as Software Engineer.
💙 In love with Flutter and Mobile Development. Currently expressing this love at Very Good Ventures.
🌹 Lucky husband & Tutor of 5 cats.
🌟 Reader of random books, sometimes artist, writer, piano & guitar player, cook and researcher of counsciousness (yoga & meditation).