Just a photo of my blue Rotary hat. (Testing something out with image uploads – this IS my test site after all. M)
Oct 13
Migration in Blue
Looked up the other day and there was a flock of geese going across the blue sky…
Sep 30
No More Status
Booking airline tickets for my first business trip since December 2019, I get down to the part where United notes your status level and it says…“General”No “Premier” status of any level.Which makes total sense given:2020 – 0 flights2021 – 0 flights2022…
Sep 22
The Curious Aspect of Facebook Supporting Multiple Personas
I find it fascinating that Meta just announced the ability of Facebook users to have multiple accounts attached to their single Facebook account. So you can have different “personas” for interacting with different communities differently. Now, this is nothing very…
Sep 21
Techxit: The UK Declares Its Exit from the High-Tech Startup World
No one in their right mind would now want to start up a high-tech company in the UK. With a last-minute addition to the Online Safety Bill (OSB), the UK government made it clear that startups are no longer welcome in the UK. Previously, the OSB applie…
Sep 07
TDYR 413 – Overcoming Fatigue and Malaise
Has it really be over a year since I last published a podcast episode? In this new episode, I talk about some of the fatigue and malaise that has kept me away from recording and also writing. I also provided an update on some of what has been going on …
May 01
43% of the Web Can No Longer (Easily) Auto-Share to Twitter
As of today, May 1, 2023, 43% of web sites will no longer be able to easily auto-share posts to Twitter. I’m referring, of course, to WordPress, which W3Techs shows as powering around 43% of all sites they scan. Due…
Apr 08
Do AI Systems Lie, Hallucinate, or Confabulate? (I’ll go for “lying”)
When ChatGPT and similar systems started being available, people noticed right away that they could provide completely wrong answers. But they would do so in language that was so confident and plausible (because that is how they are designed). Some people started to say “ChatGPT lies about information”. But somewhat immediately, people started pushing back and saying that it isn’t “lying” because that implies sentience or consciousness. Say it is “lying” is “anthropomorphizing”, i.e. attributing human behavior to something that is very definitely not human. Instead, some people said, let’s refer to this false information as “hallucinations”, as that is…
Apr 08
Do AI Systems Lie, Hallucinate, or Confabulate? (I’ll go for “lying”)
When ChatGPT and similar systems started being available, people noticed right away that they could provide completely wrong answers. But they would do so in language that was so confident and plausible (because that is how they are designed). Some people started to say “ChatGPT lies about information”. But somewhat immediately, people started pushing back and saying that it isn’t “lying” because that implies sentience or consciousness. Say it is “lying” is “anthropomorphizing”, i.e. attributing human behavior to something that is very definitely not human. Instead, some people said, let’s refer to this false information as “hallucinations”, as that is…
Mar 14
After Almost 15 Years, Saying Goodbye to Evernote (and Moving to Obsidian)
On April 8, 2008, I started using Evernote as a place to store all my various notes. It would come to be a critical part of my daily workflow… so much so that I became a paying customer back in 2011 or so. Today, March 13, 2023, I uninstalled it from my devices. I’m done. It’s been a long time coming. Way back in 2012 I was super frustrated with how they destroyed the Skitch application with its 2.0 release. And yet I kept using Evernote because it had become my central repository. And… I hung on long enough that…
