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  • A typical American weekend

    Last weekend was a terrible weekend. It was as American as baseball, hot dogs and apple pie. Last Saturday started with a shooting at Brown University that left two people dead and 9 injured. In addition, the suspect was believed to have shot an MIT professor during the same time period. I believe a manhunt…

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    Random thoughts

    Today is going to be just sort of some random thoughts spilled out into this post. Nothing about new Excel tricks, amazing AI stuff, or enraging stuff from the hard-core capitalists, etc. I believe I said I would do a post outlining my thoughts about a project, but I am still cogitating over it (and…

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    Scary Stories of AI

    Today is Halloween and in honor of that, I collected a bunch of scary stories about AI and put them in a slide found below. If you didn’t notice, you should be able to click on the titles, which are actually hyperlinks, and see the original article. Happy Halloween!

  • Rapture!

    OMG! This sounds like QAnon territory. Has anybody been raptured yet? I don’t think so. I started to see some videos referencing the rapture (really to make fun of those poor believers) so that was how I learned about this craziness. It seems every day the world gets loonier and loonier. The Australians seem to…

  • QAnon has reappeared

    I missed posting last week – maybe the first time ever! (Began in 2013 or 2014). Instead, I have been caught in the news drama that is kind of stunning. I got kind of caught up in the sordid drama of the Epstein files. I have been shocked that this story has kept going and…

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    Ethics in AI

    There is something that I don’t talk much about: ethics in AI. Fortunately, it has not been much of a problem largely because I am not using AI to write for me. But… I did encounter an instance where there was a webinar to show how to use ChatGPT to gather contact information in virtual…