Perplexed-ity?
I came across this blog post from Cloudfare: Perplexity is using stealth, undeclared crawlers to evade website no-crawl directives
I’ve read and heard a lot of positive things about Perplexity’s Comet browser. I want to like them and I want to cheer for them but jeesh Louise I just can’t when they repeatedly flaunt the crawling rules. I get it; there’s this sense of desparation when you work at a tech company with cool technology and yet you have such a small market share and you try so hard. Maybe Apple will buy them?
My other musing would be about Anthropic. Here’s an 800 pound Gorilla in the frontier model space that is apparently making money had over fist, and could quity possibly be crippled by a class action suit based on the fact they stole ebooks to train their system.
Always clever Google
Tuckahoe! I wanted information on how RAG and Live Intenet Search work with LLMs. I chose Gemini 2.5 Pro Reasoning, Math & Code for the task. The final example included as a follow up to expand on real time search included my physical location, which is freely...
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...
Aussie Blockchain Cryptokitties
I was in this band called Aussie Blockchain Cryptokitties back in college. We were so /\/\etal. I have a philosophical post agitating in my mind about the private network applications of blockachain technology. I thought I would lead with"Bitcoin goes higher and...