What title should I give this post?
Anyway, last Monday, which is the public holiday of Deepavali, we send back our youngest son back to college. He was still recuperating from the fever he had - it did not intensify over the weekend and thus probably just a normal flu (as opposed to influenza). Bought some food items for him during the weekend and banked in some pocket money hopefully enough for another two weeks. While we were there at his college, I helped out carrying things to his room and I met his room mate, Shahrul. It is good to meet and know him.
Driving back home, there was traffic congestion almost all the way as people are returning home to work from the long weekend.
The following few days, I was thinking about the future a little. I come to the following thought of not putting myself as a burden to anyone while still hoping for some opportunities. In the past, I was always asking what and how I can contribute to the organizations I'm with. While we are earnng our pay, I sometime get offended being labelled as simply 'makan gaji'. I do hope people see that I have tried to go beyond that, played my role in building ip theoretical physics. During the early stage of my carreer, some probably thought I was just doing high energy physics, though the training was on mathematical physics adaptable to many different domains but the specialization was quantization. I was generally eyeing on the mathematical techniques that I can use for me to explore various types of physics. This explain why the different areas of research that I was involved in.
Right now, out of current rave about AI, I started to listen to many AI podcasts, just to keep my options open. During the MSC rave, I tried to get into webste building, learn some computer programming and at the time, I was interested to do computer visualization (even helped building an MSc curriculum in the 90s surrounding topics of Computational Physical Sciences, which includes even quantum computing - that early - but it was never realized). I was also trying to popularize Mathematica as a tool for doing science but those closer to engineering preferred a different software. Indeed just a few days ago, I had to sadly uninstall my Mathematica software from my laptop as it was eating up 5GB of my hard drive and causing problems to my laptop. I would have to resort to WolframAlpha after this. So after that (brief) period of computer visualization interest, I found myself leaving these computational sciences (as they are rapidly changing) and focus back on doing mathematical stuff. So, given this experience, my interest in AI is a bit more cautious, probably focusing more on mathematical matters.
One of the things I did was to buy Emad Mstaque's e-book The Last Economy over in Google Play. I have been listening to Emad Mostaque several times and he seems to be well-respected, As he was a hedge fund manager and founder of an AI company, he has the expertise to write on the topic. Reading it on Google Play is not really my thing and I was hoping to have a pdf version. Little did I know that it was available at his Intelligent Internet website. Anyway, just finished reading the whole thing this afternoon (yes, I'm a slow reader and would be 'hopeless' in the AI age). Hopefully I can convert some of my notes into a blog post in Acu Frekuensi soon.
The journey continues .... ?
Or should I stop?