Bill Gates has announced he’s giving away 200B over the next 20 years to help address 3 moonshot global needs. Here’s the announcement from Gates Foundation
There are a lot of people that idolize billionaires and I am not one of them. A have an internal screed about them and how they are MONEY HOARDERS (old school caps for emphasis). I don’t respect that behaviour when the obvious suffering blah blah blah – no one wants to hear the screed here.
Bill Gates is really the only one that has a gotten pass from me. He has actively worked through his Gates Foundation to try to make the world a better place. I admire that.
Alexa, cook me some eggs!
NY Times / AMZN deal Here's an article from The Verge about The New York Times recent deal with Amazon do deliver its “editorial content to a variety of Amazon customer experiences,” I shudder to think how little The Gray Lady is getting paid. However, I hope the AI...
AI limitations – let’s change a Google Voice number
TQuist had a Google Voice number for a long time. I never used it well, and then I neglected it, and then it was releasted back into the wild. I confirmed earlier my previous number has been assigned to some else, which makes sense due to my inactivity. So I want a...
This is why we can’t have nice things, part 1 of ???
"Researchers have estimated that a ChatGPT query consumes about five times more electricity than a simple web search." This article from MIT Explained: Generative AI’s environmental impact | MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology ughh, the water...
I am your Master of AI for Everyone Basics
I am your Master. Why? Because I've audited and completed the IBM "AI for Everyone: Master the Basics" course offered on EdX. My knowledge of AI was miniscule a few weekds ago. Now it is very slightly less miniscule. I think the most important take away from the...
AI to the rescue? Categories and Tags in WordPress
I realized when writing the first blog post that I needed consideration around this site's taxonomy of Categories and Tags. As it has been a while (ahem) since I worked with such classification for my own site(s) I really could not remember how Categoreis and Tags...
First AI post
I was all excited to write my first blog post about the subject of Artificial Intelligence (not that any intelligence is conveyed in the post, I'm just trying to get some structure established) that I called the post "First AI Post" which I subsequently concluded is a...
Contact page on the home screen, SuperPWA FTW
Years have gone by since I've updated this blog. But, no time like the present to change that. The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step or something like that. I thought I would outline yesterday's research project. A prospective customer with a...