Dwayne Phillips ' Day Book

Items I happen to view each day. Science, Techonology, Management, Culture, and of course Writing

This is my day book for this week. I have modeled this after science fiction and computer writer Jerry Pournelle's view, or as he calls it, his Day Book. I encourage you to see Jerry Pournelle's site and subscribe to his services.

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This week: February 29-March 6, 2016

Summary of this week:

Monday - Tuesday - Wednesday - Thursday - Friday - Saturday - Sunday

Monday February 29, 2016

Today is the 29th of February—leap year day or something.

Worried about artificial intelligence? My worries are the same: I'm always worried about overly ambitious persons who will misuse tools to jump ahead.

ooops, an Apple software update broke some stuff on older Macs. Regression testing!

No more rumors: Raspberry Pi 3 is here with WiFi, Bluetooth, and $25 price. I would like to see the price fall. We don't really need twice the processing power. Here is a better article on the new Pi.

Microsoft changes its feedback requirements for Beta testers.

Chinese IoT devices are calling home with our information.

Here is something everyone with half a brain knows: if you have a backdoor in a system, unintended persons will find it and enter through it.

A look inside our government's project Madison Valleywood. It isn't pretty.

Let's reinvent the wheel as Google and others spend million$ to learn what makes good teams.

Microsoft has a new ad campaign aimed at highlighting what Windows does that Apple doesn't.

The Academy Awards were last night with Mad Max quietly winning the most awards.

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Tuesday March 1, 2016

GoPro acquires a couple of video editing companies to improve its users' experience.

A New York judges gives Apple a win over our FBI.

A Google driverless car struck a bus—at 2mph. This is an accident in California?

It appears that in-flight WiFi is wide open, so if you use it others can easily see what you are doing.

This looks like a fun little indoor RC flying project.

How to run TensorFlow and automagically process images without any coding. I will have to look at this.

Some details of Apple's arguments against the FBI.

A tutorial on current AI research and applications with deep learning.

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Wednesday March 2, 2016

Seth Godin in a longer post about online education, why it hasn't worked so well, and alternatives. Highly recommended.

Our FBI Director admits mistakes in first 24 hours with the world's most famous iPhone.

Clinton and Trump are the biggest winners on Super Tuesday. In my humble opinion, the rest of us are losers.

Want to live in an expensive city? Here's the list.

Why is Trump doing so well? Two replaced Disney IT workers speak at a rally.

SCO, of SCO Unix, is gone, officially gone.

Whitfield Diffie and Martin Hellman win the 2015 Turing Award.

Facebook at Work adds another beta company as it moves towards real customers.

Microsoft is using AI and cloud computing to tell you when your business is a victim of social engineering.

Coming to the Playstation 4: Remote Play. Leave the PS4 at home, play it from anywhere over the net.

Scott Kelly is back on earth after 340 days in the ISS.

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Thursday March 3, 2016

Starry: we enter the age of the fashionable router. Why not?

France's grand solar experiment: pave 600miles of road with solar panels.

Yelp fires a single mom; users delete their accounts. I find too little of this type of news these days. Disney replaced Americans with H-1B visa holders. That was wrong. Where are the protests?

Our Dept of Defense invites vetted hackers to do what hackers do.

The German government is investigating Facebook over misuse of personal data.

Deep sigh: Our IRS is using hacked systems to protect us from being hacked. You can't make it up.

It appears that IBM is laying off lots of people—quietly.

Ticket sales for the Rio Summer Olympics are dismal so far.

San Francisco's police have expensive, sophisticated drones—that are easily hacked and controlled.

Eric Schmidt will head the Defense Innovation Advisory Board for our DoD.

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Friday March 4, 2016

Amazon releases two new Echo devices.

Russia and Syria are driving refugees into Europe as weapons.

Oculus dismisses Apple computers for VR because of their low-end GPUs.

The call to replace calculus with statistics for non-engineers. There is merit to this idea.

Conflict of interest: our NSF gives $$$ to high school attended by Obama daughters.

Amazon removes encryption from its mobile devices.

Samsung introduces its 15TeraByte SSD.

Google searches for "how to move to Canada" are spiking with the current crop of American "presidential" candidates.

Google once again at the top of the "best places to work" list.

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Saturday March 5, 2016

SpaceX successfully launches a satellite, but fails to land the booster on a barge.

One day later, Amazon decides to keep encryption on its mobile devices.

This lucky person flew in the Apartment in the Sky on a A380. This is how travel is supposed to be.

Google is experimenting with new “Local Business Cards” in search results.

Must see video animation: DARPA sponsoring an advanced VTOL craft.

Not much for shovel-ready projects: California's bullet train delayed three years.

NASA not sharing much information about Scott Kelly. FOIA reqeusts coming?

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Sunday March 6, 2016

Google Street View allows us to go to a lot of places on earth. See the Grand Canyon from the Colorado River.

If you can't beat them, adopt them. Traditional colleges are now offering coding bootcamps.

Where did the billionaires get their billion$? A surprise to me is that many got it in clothing and such.

Someone hacks Donald Trump's voicemail.

This piece describes me (most of the time): I want to understand how it all fits together.

The role of problems in good stories.

Ideas on starting a freelance writing career at age 40 and beyond. First tip: start writing.

Jane Friedman is offering "office hours" for writers. Also note that this is a new use of Facebook's live video.

Want to be more productive: these are excellent tips.

Fiction is fun to write. Use my own life, but make the stories end the way I wish (sometimes) reality should have ended.

The need to F O C U S. I love the tip about sometimes using R E A L   P A P E R.

Here is one writer's advice: join every social network you see.

How one writer learned to love research instead of tolerate it.

Emotional depression and the writer. If you want to be a writer, take care of yourself. Ensure you have an outsider who watches you now and then to see that you are okay.

Daydreaming, imagination, and writing about what you DON'T know.

Want to make money as a writer? Priorities and Habits.

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