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by Adrian Kosmaczewski
On Monday, June 6th, 2011, after Steve Jobs' last public appearance as a keynote speaker, took place the "Developer Tools Kickoff" session at Apple's annual Worldwide Developers Conference, also known as WWDC. That day, Chris Lattner, creator of the LLVM compiler infrastructure and the Swift programming language, introduced a new feature of the Objective-C language to thunderous applause. This feature, still present in Swift, is known as "Automatic Reference Counting", or ARC.
by Adrian Kosmaczewski
The filmography of Christopher Nolan runs along a common thread: a never-ending obsession with human memory. In "Memento" (2000), Leonard Shelby must solve the horrendous rape and murder of his wife while dealing with short-term memory loss. In "The Prestige" (2006), memory is self-deception. Dom Cobb, in "Inception" (2010), keeps building an emotional and subjective reality around the souvenir of his wife. Cooper's memory in "Interstellar" (2014) is non-linear, and oblivious to time dilation issues. "Tenet" (2020) opposes the existence of our memory to our capacity for free will. Finally, "Oppenheimer" (2023) gives a moral perspective through the regretful memory of building the ultimate weapon. Nolan screams at us that human memory is non-linear, repetitive, unreliable, and most importantly, in a perpetual conflict with that thing we call reality.
