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Every day I encounter another article or two discussing the impact of automation on jobs. I’m sure most people are hearing or reading about such things, but outside of IT, do they really understand how blindingly fast computers can go, performing flawlessly (once programming has been tested and perfected) without tiring? And the IT guys,…
The gorilla joke is either a great meme or “a sign of the imminent collapse of critical thought and public discourse”. New York Times, “Let’s Talk About the Gorilla Channel For One More Day”, Vivian Wang, 1/6/2018. There’s been a couple of articles on topics of social media, critical thinking and how to communicate with people…
There was a surprising development in the past week or so that I still remain skeptical. I’m adopting a stance of I’ll believe it when I see it happens. But first, before broaching that surprising development, I want to point to an article on capitalism I read back in December. This article describes the problems…
Last year, or maybe it was two years ago, I tried to go through this simulation book, Excel Simulations by Dr. Gerard M. Verschuuren, and blog at the same time about it, but it ended up being too much. I was trying to come up with good examples to use with the simulation exercises and…
A little quick note on that issue I had where the vendor’s exported Excel files were not cooperating with Microsoft: my macro no longer could “see” the downloaded files, even when “open”. The security warning message never showed up to say that the file was in Protected View mode. I even created another macro to…
On Wednesday, during lunch break, an article, “Donald Trump didn’t want to be president”, caught my eye and pulled me into the article. It turned out to be excerpts from a tell-all book Fire and Fury by Michael Wolffe, and boy, was it a doozy. I couldn’t believe what I was reading, so, as a…