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.
Another major media perspective on censorship (they call it "content moderation" to be nice). We didn't have this "problem" until the wrong guy was elected to public office by the wrong segment of the public.
Pandemic prosperity rolls on for the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co.
The TV market sees the first non-Samsung smart units running the Tizen (Linux) operating system.
More speculation and hope for the Microsoft hardware event this week.
Humans, even teenage humans, are still out performing robots.
Life contains a wide range and depth of emotion. Writing about life isn't easy, but it is possible.
Energy or motivation or just plain "want to" is one of the more important parts to writing.
Which word is the right word? "Don't assume you know; look it up."
To say something big and universal, say something small and specific.
One of the more difficult things in writing is finishing. It is an emotional commitment.
....Sometimes the genius company founder is just plain wrong. Zuckerburg is pushing Meta into the metaverse. The software doesn't work at all. Recall when Steve Jobs (world's most genius genius ever) started NeXt computer and it failed miserably.
I'll just quote this headline, "What happened to the virtual reality gaming revolution?"
Great essay about how the fast high-tech companies are slower than the crowd. Computing power is so inexpensive that there are large masses of persons "out there" writing software. Someone out there hears of an idea, implements it this weekend, and releases it right now. The crowed, as some people used to call it, is faster than the organized organization.
This is an excellent piece on data science with much input from Turing Award winner Jeffrey Ullman. Ullman analyzes the most-often-accepted Venn diagram of data science and then explains his own diagram. Good reading. Good thinking.
iPhones have this new car crash service that calls for help. Folks riding roller coasters are calling for help when they don't need it or don't know what is happening. We hope that the emergency services look at a map and note that the car crashes are happening in theme parks.
YouTube finally introduces what they call "Handles" or @username.
More pro-Russian hacktivist activities as websites for US airports are hacked.
And now we can play Doom inside Microsoft Notepad.
Here's a YouTube video of playing Doom inside Notepad.
.....Research shows that GPT-3 can simulate folks with all our faults and biases.
Deepfakes are becoming good, perhaps too good. There are many possible uses and misuses.
Meanwhile in China, entertainment history repeats itself as virtual celebrities take over from real ones. Don Kirshner created and managed rock bands. When the boys in the band got out of control, he created a cartoon band called the Archies. The cartoon characters never got out of control.
The availability of knowledge and the decline of genius. Or was Steve Jobs a genius?
How NASA makes its space photos look like art. No, they really don't look that good in raw data.
How some tech workers are working 2, 3, 4 and more full-time jobs at full-time salaries. They are essentially doing piece work. They complete their assigned work quickly and well. Then they do the next paying job and the next and the next. They work hard and earn a lot of money.
One person's expectations of what a professional software engineer can do. It is about explaining.
A piece on anomaly detection or finding "one of these things is not like the others."
Google is pushing its Workspaces (Docs, etc.) in an attempt to be a bigger player than Microsoft's Office. Google has the advantage in that it has always been cloud-based and never had to enable its products to run on the desktop.
Google pushes several Chromebooks that are built for cloud-based gaming.
A review of Nvidia's new RTX 4090. It brings high-speed gaming to 4K resolutions.
Bidenomics continues as Intel plans to cut thousands of jobs.
Intel CEO plans to separate chip design and chip manufacturing parts of the company.
We have software that is good enough to mimic the voices of persons given a few recordings. In this example, Joe Rogan interview Steve Jobs.
.....A few of the emerging patterns (trends) in newer software (apps).
Once again, someone predicts the end of computer programming. When actions that only require one step are all that is left, then we will have the end of computer programming. Not until then.
And we hae a proposal for a global, wireless energy network based on satellites. Perhaps someone will have a method for transmitting energy over radio frequencies. Maybe.
Meanwhile in Congress, members are considering a law to make government contracts "more transparent." First, you are transparent or not. You cannot be "more" transparent. Second, the bigger and older companies can play this game. The smaller, newer, and more agile companies cannot play the game.
Our US Army will spend a billion$$$ on cloud computing.
Good use of tech talent? I don't think so, but...lots of work being devoted to full-body deepfakes. This article mentions modeling clothing that you can buy. Real use (like many visual innovations) is pornography.
Microsoft updates their big artist's PC Surface Studio 2 Plus with new CPU and GPU.
Microsoft shows the Surface Laptop 5. No external changes, but newer parts on the inside.
Microsoft promises new features for Teams in Teams Premium which will be available real soon now.
Given the new export restrictions on China, US companies are pulling employees out of China.
After 30 years, out with "Microsoft Office" and in with "Microsoft 365."
The goggles our Army bought from Microsoft didn't work well. The troops got sick.
.....Those teenagers: iPhone ownership doubles since 2012.
There is some progress on replacing passwords with passkeys.
Here is an open-source text book from Harvard on Introduction to Data Science.
The Apple Card moves Apple into the realm of banking.
Sony enters the over-the-counter hearing aid market. At $1,000, these are still too expensive.
.....I like this piece about future happenings in data analytics.
A study from Scotland shows that 40% of those who had COVID still feel sick now and then months later. My theory on long COVID is that someone had a cold, doctors and hospitals tried all sorts of things, and these actions made the person sicker. Evidence? Someone is healthy. They go to the hospital. They return home and never recover their health.
In the age of shortage or everything, we are not short on Adderall.
.....Considering the management of multi-cloud data. Where is it?
The State of AI 2022 report is out.
Some thoughts on the concept of media-morphosis.
Akin to "Modern phrenology" the use of AI or something called AI to help select job candidates flops badly. We no so little about hiring that we can't even identify what we want to identify.
Elon Musk decides to keep sending free service to Ukraine. Will this cause a ban on Starlink in Russia for the next 20 years? Will the Russians forgive all these companies that left Russia and helped Ukraine? Will anyone remember anything of this?
A note on fads in pop culture: everyone goes crazy over fat bears.
The ultimate search to reduce clutter on your desk by putting more things on your desk.
Strong rumors that Apple is making a docking station (something to put on the kitchen counter or nightstand) for the iPad. Do we want to put a camera next to our bed?
In the past couple of months I have seen several articles like this where airlines show the new luxury on large aircraft. Perhaps this goes back to the concept of kids who want to build their own little clubhouse. Perhaps this is just a show of the general prosperity of the world economy or "those really rich folks." Perhaps everyone wants their own Air Force One or flying home like in the Jules Verne novels.
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