I attended an event at UT Austin, hosted by Amazon Web Services, on technology in sports. What I learned was actually pretty fascinating, even if you're not into tech. The Cloud Computing Basics First, they explained "cloud computing," which sounds complicated but is actually simple. Amazon has built data centers all over the world. Think of them like giant warehouses full of computers. Instead of every company buying its own expensive computers, they rent space on Amazon's c

My computer science professor said something that should have scared me: "This class is so hard, you can use all the AI help you want."

Why the smartest people in AI education are getting it completely wrong

When I walked into my first hackathon as a freshman computer science student at UT Austin, I had no idea what to expect. Twenty-four hours later, I walked out on the winning team. But more importantly, I gained insight into what it takes to transform an idea into a working product under intense time pressure.

Let me address the elephant in the room: I'm a college student running a tech consulting business. I don't have twenty years of industry...