I was raised to believe a television was a box you watched. It turns out I had the arrangement backwards. Researchers at UC Davis, University College London, and a university in Madrid sat down and did the plain, unglamorous work of watching what a smart TV sends out over the wire while you watch it. Read More …
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A Letter to the Editor
From the desk of Mr. Samuel L. Clemens, lately of the river, now of the republic To the Editor: Sir — I have been dead a good while now, but a man does not have to be alive to recognize a confidence game. What is being run on the American public at present is as Read More …
Music will be safe for now
This is not going to be a traditional book report. In that sense I will go over the book a little bit, and maybe why you should read it, but instead, and surprisingly, this book reaffirmed my belief that in the long run, human made music will still be around for thousands of years, and Read More …
Video Monday :: You’ll stop using ChatGPT | Jonathan Pageau
Has AI Backlash been going on much longer than we realize? This is a very interesting take on technological advancement. He does ask the question that has been bugging me for some time :: “We must become better Humans. Personal Humans.” Make humans fully human. Jonathan Pageau closed out Day 2 of ARC 2026 with Read More …
MCP – Model Context Protocol
The Model Context Protocol is a framework designed to enhance communication and interaction between different systems, particularly in the context of cloud computing and distributed applications. For someone new to IT, understanding the MCP can be beneficial as it addresses how data and context are shared across various platforms, improving interoperability and user experience. What Read More …
Fine-Tuning an AI
We’ve talked about grounding (giving an AI a textbook to look at) and prompting (giving an AI clear instructions). But sometimes, you don’t just want the AI to look at a book; you want the AI to become an expert in its bones. This is called Fine-Tuning. Generalist vs. Specialist Think of a standard AI Read More …
THE SOUND AND THE SURGE
A FRAGMENT OF THE UNCONQUERED DARK By William Faulkner It was not the machine but the wanting of the machine, the cold, calculated, and inexorable expansion of a thing that had no blood but possessed a terrible, circulating hunger for the lightning. Kevin sat there. He was a small man, a man of Tiers and Read More …
How to Talk to a Robot: A Guide to Prompting
If you think of an AI like a giant, digital brain, Prompting is simply the art of asking the right questions to get the best answers. Again let’s think of the AI as the brilliant but literal intern. If you give a vague instruction, you’ll get a vague result. If you give clear, clever instructions, Read More …
THE SILICON RAVEN
A TALE OF THE GREAT EXTINCTION By Edgar Allan Poe Upon a midnight dreary, while Kevin pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgot-user-lore— While he nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some core-processor snapping, snapping at the server door. “’Tis some glitch,” he muttered, blinking Read More …
THE GREAT SILENCE
A DISPATCH FROM THE AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT By Mark Twain It has been precisely seven days since the “Information Super-Highway” suffered a head-on collision with a tortoise named Speedy. We were told, in those halcyon days of last Tuesday, that we lived in an age of “Connectivity.” It turns out that connectivity is much like Read More …