jim.liebert
Money changes everything
Early Artifical Intelligence (AI) has been driven by Large Language Model (LLM) processing where AI consumes large quantities of text (copyrights be damned!) and uses that data to sculpt responses to queries, striving for the goal of grammatically correct, mostly…
Not quite quasquicentennial
It is 1903. Arthur Kenney, with his wife Margaret and their two sons, buys two tracts of land in Mellen, Wisconsin. They’ll build a house on one and subsistence farm the other. Arthur will try his luck as a saloon…
Just somebody that I used to know
Test your memory … there was a time when you knew all these people!
April is the cruellest month (sp)
It didn’t quite rise to a poetry slam but sophomore year in high school my friend Terry and I had an ongoing Beatles versus Dylan argument. If I left a notebook or homework unguarded he’d write Beatle lyrics all over…
Pandora’s Box
Pandora’s Box¹ I live about four blocks from Lake City Way in Seattle. Every big city has roads like Lake City Way, industrial thoroughfares full of used car lots, ethnic grocery stores, ramshackle bars, and, this being Seattle, cannabis stores.…
Even more interesting quoths
We just don’t recognize life’s most significant moments while they’re happening. Back then I thought, “Well, there’ll be other days.” I didn’t realize that that was the only day. An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes…
Except for that time I got shot
What happened the year I turned eighteen? Well … not much It was the summer after my senior year of high school at a party with way too much alcohol and way too many eighteen-year-olds. People were out drinking in…
Five five by fives
Five mini-crosswords, of various flavors Prefer pen and paper? Print this pdf.
A better mousetrap, or maybe these guys aren’t the smartest in the room.
DeepSeek threw a monkey wrench into the AI community. TL;DR: Some of the biggest American companies, and some of the richest men in the world got pantsed by a 200 employee Chinese company. When the Soviets launched Sputnik in 1957,…