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Another day, another mass school shooting… this time at a Tennessee church school on Monday. This time I’m not hearing much from the Republicans about what kind of solutions they could offer. I’m really not hearing anything but anger from those who have experienced these shootings in some fashion. And of course, some news commentators….

“That giant sucking sound of jobs going south”. Ross Perot immortalized that phrase in the presidential race of 1992 when he was talking about NAFTA causing jobs to go to Mexico. It appears he was right about that: manufactfuring jobs were offshored, probably first to Mexico, then to China. I do wonder if NAFTA was…

A few weeks ago I wrote about Meta’s Scientific AI (I think it was called Galactica) and it did not succeed. The company had to take it down maybe after 3 days. But now there is a new AI in town, and it is sending Richter scale ripples. Back at the end of November 2022…

It is the last day of the year, and this post will be the last one for this year. The last two weeks I have been lazy and yet I was desperately trying to finish up some items before 2023 begins. Most of the items were planning and preparatory type of stuff. I’m tired. I…

There’s been a LOT in the news lately about various kinds of AI: mainly the ones impacting art (Stable Diffusion, MidJourney, Dalle-2) and the ChatGPT which I think impacts writing of some sort. But there was one – probably a language model kind of AI like ChatGPT – that kind of slipped by under the…

It’s that time of year where most people look back into the year and/or look forward into the new year. Retrospectives and introspection. I do a lot of planning when everybody is off on vacation, doing sometimes experimental things to see if I can come up with new tools/ideas to help me with my job…