Epistemic Status: Budding
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If being made in God’s image has been tied to intelligence and capability, what happens when machines begin to surpass us? This is a reflection on imago Dei, relationship, and what remains at the centre.
If Machines Can Think… What Does It Mean to Be Human?
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The way I see it, there are two kinds of people in the world. There are those who are active. Who change things. Who affect what’s around them, who make a difference, who shape the world in some way. And there are those who are more passive. Who let things happen to them… who drift.…
Letter to Isaac: Work Hard… Do Your Best
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Week seventeen, then week eighteen. The end of the isolation chapter, and something that shifted in me during the hardest part of it. I’m still not ready to say everything that happened in those weeks. But I can say something. The three weeks leading up to this point were the hardest of my life. Mentally…
The Enforced Brake – Covid Part 5
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Week three of lockdown. Good Friday, April 2020. I wrote this one in real time, which is the only reason I’d share it. Some things are only honest when they’re written in the middle of them. Growing up, Good Friday meant the start of a great weekend. No work, good company, life lived to the…
The Blackest Good Friday – Covid Part 2
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March 2020. These are reflections from a diary I kept through lockdown. Looking back now, what strikes me most is how ordinary the beginning felt. There have been a handful of times in my life when I’ve felt the ground shift under everyone’s feet at once. The Berlin Wall coming down. September 11th. The July…
An Observer No Longer – Covid Part 1
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This is part of my AlgoArt series. A set of generative art experiments, each one named after a person, each one teaching me something different about code and creativity. You can follow the visual results on Instagram at @new_pathway. Yasmin is the yarn piece. The idea was simple enough: draw lines that look like actual…
AlgoArt — Yasmin: Weaving Threads of Code
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I got started with algorithmic art because I wanted to push my Python skills further. Online tutorials are fine, but I learn best when there is a real goal to work toward. Something creative and a little open-ended. A lot of inspiration came from Tyler Hobbs… his long-form generative work, his articles and talks. If…
AlgoArt — Zara: On Process Over Outcome