If not a deity, what else do I have incredible reverence for? My Family All Aspects of Science All Aspects of Technology The Human Brain Books of All Kinds Incredible Athletes/Athletic Performances Amazing Musicianship Humanity In All Its Crazy Glory Nature In All Its Infinite Variety But more specially, The Beach And more specifically than […]
The new artificial intelligence service, ChatGPT, has taken the Internet by storm and with good reason – this is incredibly realistic (mostly), fast, free artificial intelligence that has potential to revolutionalize the world in numerous ways improving exponentially from similar earlier services. (Of course, as someone pointed out on Reddit, “everyone thought Excel would revolutionize […]
"I'm gonna be blunt here: Elon Musk is running Twitter into the ground…and it's the best Twitter's ever been." @trevornoah pic.twitter.com/COQ3V0q06b — The Daily Show (@TheDailyShow) November 11, 2022 After paying the rather insane sum of $44 billion for Twitter, Elon Musk had to make his money back somehow. Unfortunately, doing away with the site’s […]
Follow up to a post from last week… Same video as before of ATLAS observing the DART impact, but tracked sidereally (with the stars). Each frame is about 40 seconds, and the entire sequence is about two hours. pic.twitter.com/p7Sgvfu2CK — ATLAS Project (@fallingstarIfA) September 27, 2022
Went to a few garage sales while camping in Weyburn and one person had set-up a Square account to accept credit card payments! (And what’s $8 get you at a garage sale these days? A brand new tarp still in the plastic, a power bar, an extension cord, and a multi-head screwdriver! I did okay […]
The Age of Extinction Is Here.
Haven’t done this for a couple years but here’s my picks for the Stanley Cup Playoffs… Well, sort of. Unless I’m missing something, the geniuses at the NHL have apparently managed to create a highly touted interactive feature that has a pop-up “Tiebreaker” box that can’t be moved or cancelled (at least on a Macbook […]
Got home and Shea said “Why did you post the word ‘Mark’ on your Facebook today?” Huh? So I look: My boss’s name is Mark but I don’t even have him on Facebook. I have another work colleague I interact with fairly regularly named Mark but same thing – not on my Facebook. I […]
As Elon Musk (tries to) buy Twitter for <checks notes> $44 billion dollars and Jeff Bezos shoots cock-shaped rockets into space, it’s important to remember that there are normal people running businesses and organizations who are doing very basic, humane things to treat their employees well, respect their humanity, and ensure that they are focused […]
