The less serious partts
A – Snuck? What sort of word is that? Why are so many people devoid of any notion of proper past tenses? B – Someone snuck that right in! C – Following this, I was taught not to use the word ‘chuck’ as should use ‘thrown’. Unless perhaps as the past tense of chick D…
Anyone remember Ask Jeeves? Altavista? Excite? Lycos? WebCrawler? Infoseek? Yep – all search engines designed to help people find information on the web, but did you know they all have a granddaddy? Meet the guys that brought back Archie. Archie was the go-to place to search – for files to download. Not so much web…
After a being jeered, booed, and heckled at a rally last week, it looks like he’s being abandoned by Melania and Ivanka at his trial now. He’s been charged for a range of crimes, is (poorly) defending a whole raft of other charges any of which will end in jail time, takes (and is no…
It’s been a while since Kerry and I have been able to head to the coastal town of Inverloch on Victoria’s Bass Coast. So Monday a week-and-a-bit ago we tried a quick trip there to have what’s almost become a ritual for us – a meat pie from Paul the Pieman Bakeries, then a quick…
My primary focus this month has been on an overhaul of the Conversation Engine. The last time I revised it, the crux of the work was to add a tree-like aspect to Acuitas’ memory of the conversation. The expectation was that this would help with things like “one topic nested inside another,” or “returning to…
This article, lets get to grips with “dormitory/share-house cooking.” The true origin of so many great (and a few, um … not so great) food and cooking hacks. If you ever shared housing or were in a dormitory / “roomies” kind of situation you know how it goes. You go to make a cup of…
Sometimes I find fun stuff that I can present here, and when I do – I do… Here’s the Cat Distribution System. New feature on the TEdASPHERE Globe, let me know if you enjoy this sort of interruption to your day!
So aside from the trite references to contestant slips (everyone needs to add a distraction from their main point, right?) there are a number of points in this article that we should address. How much gas-cutting is enough? Of course the sheer quantity of gas being burned daily is a climate-frying disaster. But industry chews through…
I’m in the midst of a blog series on AI-related ideology and politics. In Part IV, I looked at algorithmic bias, one of the demonstrable concerns about today’s AI models. Now I’m going to examine the dire hypothetical predictions of the Existential Risk Guardians. Could future AI destroy human civilization? This Part V will be…