If I had more time…
Life is short; I wish I had more time – things that you hear all the time. I feel the same way and at my age there is an even more sense of urgency to attend to things that I want to do and learn. So, here are a few select items related to work. I have a long and unrealistic bucketlist for my personal life which shall remain where it is now…
Learn and use AI (Artificial Intelligence) – AI (Artificial Intelligence) is in the news a lot recently. Many of us will vividly remember IBM Watson winning Jeopardy in 2011. This was an awesome way in which the power of machine intelligence was demonstrated. I vividly remember the AI class I took in 1985 at the CUNY Graduate Center when I was doing my MA in computer science. It was the craze at that time. The language of choice for AI at that time (and it still continues to be) was LISP. Even though many programming languages are strange in their own ways, this is an extreme one, where the use of parentheses is so pervasive that they are annoying.