Have you ever used an Allen Key to hit a nail on a wooden board? or a screwdriver to drill a hole in the wall? How about using a presentation software to automatically play a list of your favourite songs on a slideshow mode? or using MS Excel for retouching your photos. I am sure there are better tools to do these tasks. But, no one said you can’t use these software tools for the above-mentioned applications. This blog is an essay about how I find it fascinating how people have found an alternate use of tools within a software eco-system to achieve their end-results.
Through various circumstances since last year, I used Ubuntu as my primary operating system. This blog outlines my experience of using Linux for day-to-day tasks and how I have realised that the operating system doesn’t matter as long as you can get your work done.
Isaac Asimov developed the three laws of robotics. I have always been curious about implementing the three laws in real humanoid robots. Here’s a blog post where I outline the possible ways of implementing the three laws while asking several questions regarding the ethics of developing humanoid robots. Bonus story in the beginning.