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.
AI Action plan, and stuff
AI Action plan Here ya go folks - this is the current administration's AI Action Plan: https://www.ai.gov/action-plan Here are some words from the current administration about preventing "woke AI" in the federal government...
Advanced Google Analytics Academy, part 1
I've completed the first part (of four) areas in the Google Analytics Academy - Advanced Google Analytics course. I've come to several conclusions: the information builds nicely upon material covered in the Basic Google Analytics course. at the bottom of the page of...
Google Analytics Academy
Oh, if only the Google Analytics Academy could be as cool as Starfleet Academy. I spent a couple hours off and on going through their beginner course and they gave me a certificate! Thanks Google! Seriously, though, the course is a nice primer into...
CodeVA
I attended RVATechJam's Tuesday luncheon that featured CodeVA as the program. I am a big proponent of Computer Science programming/literacy and applaud their efforts.
RVATechJam
I spent my lunch hour listening to "Telling Stories with Data" technology panel / discussion hosted by RVATech. I enjoyed the panel discussion. Altria's use and command of big data should be telling to all businesses looking for an edge - big data can...
The secret language of Vote for Trump!
I recently launched my completely unheralded food blog mostly as a way to play around with Elegant Themes Divi theme. I do, however, have lots of various food pictures I'd like to categorize more for my own recorded history. If someone stumbles across...
Google Voice
I've been working a bit to update content on TQuist website. I had gotten a Google Voice number years ago but then never used it, and after a time it was recycled. I signed up for a new one today and the process is very, very smooth. One has to bear in mind that...