Twitter/X reminds me more and more of a dive bar in the 1980’s. Sticky bathroom floor for reasons best not contemplated, and, when you finally leave, you’re covered with the stink of cigarettes. Having said that, I spent a non-inconsequential…
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…
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 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.…
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…
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,…
One can only hope! Truth on the Internet is pretty fluid, but here are some anecdotes that are definitely / probably / possibly / probably not true:
Mr. Hand : Mr. Spicoli, you’re on dangerous ground here. You’re causing a major disturbance on my time. Jeff Spicoli : I’ve been thinking about this, Mr. Hand. If I’m here and you’re here, doesn’t that make it our time? Cameron Crowe, Fast Times at…
My dad wouldn’t drive a Ford if his life depended on it but somehow he knew a guy who knew a guy and he, my friend Rich, and I worked the Punt, Pass, & Kick trials in Milwaukee for a…
This guy created a 10,000 x 10,000 check box and the website allowed users to check boxes on/off, where any change would be reflected to everyone. I enjoyed it; it had a certain Zen / Mandala effect. But then, by…
