Items I happen to view each day. Science, Technology, Management, Culture, and Writing
This is my day book for this week. It is a log of things I see on the Internet.
This week: 6-12 December, 2021
Amazon isn't waiting for the supply chain (and its government regulators) to fix itself.
Work in computing? Here are the folks who are paid the most.
Life on Mars simulations are everywhere.
Are we nearing the four-day work week?
We witness the return of the vinyl record.
The concept of "joy" in writing.
Thoughts on becoming a freelance editor. Two parts. Part one. Part two.
If you want to pay your bills by writing, you will need to be patient with the painful growth.
Some ideas on finding ideas for stories.
The concept of writing the truth when all others are doing something else.
....Microsoft is raising prices on monthly subscriptions of Office. They want annual subscriptions.
Everyone appears to be using the same datasets in AI machine learning. This isn't a good thing.
Elon Musk is against all government subsidies and our President's Build Back Better program. We don't subsidize gas stations (never did). Why subsidize electric charging stations?
If you are on this Zoom call, you are fired.
We have a shortage of cream cheese. The Bagel places are struggling.
.....Appointed members of our Federal government go to Silicon Valley for help on cybercrime. Why not? Maybe some good will come of these efforts. The real problems exist inside the offices of the various agencies where boredom rules.
TRM Labs is the latest blockchain analysis company to receive backing from financial institutions. The analysis of what happens on the blockchain is a growing industry.
AWS opens a Top Secret-West region.
Rumors run amuck regarding our CIA and crytocurrencies.
Despite major medical science advances, Americans still eat too much and are still unhealthy.
We are still fussing about 5G and aircraft safety.
.....An introduction to AWS SageMaker Studio Lab and comparing it to Google's Colab.
Where the money is: mobile apps and games...$121Billion in 2021.
Businesses are quickly buying Apple computers that have their ARM processors (M1, etc.)
DeepMind shows RETRO: it is a language model that isn't quite as huge as that of other leading companies, but performs as well. They use a different method of distributing data across networks.
26million electronic health records were hacked in 2019. 40million hacked in 2020. Back during the term of a prior President I used to ask, "Is everyone ready for national electronic health records?"
.....More rumors about Apple's AR headset that is coming in 2022.
Now we have the "alt-Jihadist."
An inside look at the genius design team at Apple.
Google promises all its employees at least a $1,600 bonus. Return to office? TBD.
Microsoft updates its Notepad on Windows 11. Seems like it wouldn't need much work by now.
Sleep, wake, work better. The trick is to wake up in the transition between sleep and wakefulness, just before deep sleep.
.....The Omicron sure sounds like the common cold, but what do I know?
Perhaps there is a simple test for coronavirus.
The experts seem to be confusing toxic factories with high technology.
In Chicago's public schools we have a battle between code.org and Google and all that. Computer science education has reached the point in adoption that we are now fighting instead of educating.
.....Labor shortage? Seems more likely that this is a shortage of working conditions that people want.
IBM and Samsung have developed new transistors that make the 1nm integrated circuit likely.
I like this post by Seth Godin. There are no big secret conspiracies, just systems in place that allow some people to take advantage. Identify those systems, point to the obvious, and bring change.
The fascinating art of "letterlocking." Must see video.
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