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.
Intel shows its "Intel Node 4" technology.
Computer vision moves into sports for coaching and injury prevention. There was a day when Howard Hughes filmed himself playing golf. The idea was to analyze the film and learn to play better. I guess we are doing better at this with computers. Perhaps we can extend this to just plain folks to help us all be healthier.
Some media outlets are still blaming Nixon and Watergate. Will America ever forgive the Democratic party for nominating Hillary Clinton? She was the only person who could not defeat Donald Trump in an election.
Dangerous territory. House committee members claim enough evidence to indict our former President. This would be a horrible precendent. In the future, any House majority could claim such about any past President belonging to a different party.
Some thoughts on "purple prose." I guess that is using too many fancy words.
There appears to be a growing market for technical journalists. "Tech journalists take complex and detailed technical information and transform it into an easy-to-read, understandable written format for their intended audience. They are highly skilled and understand abstract concepts and yet are able to convert these to layman's terms." I have met only a few (less than five) persons who could do this.
Thoughts on being a persuasive writer.
Sometimes with some writers in some situations, taking a little break is a good idea.
Want to create your own writing course and make a little more money? Think again.
Some thoughts on becoming an editor for pay.
Some thoughts on making more money as a writer.
....Microsoft claims great improvement in the audio quality of Teams meetings.
Amazon to have actual flying drone delivery in a small area of California.
Nigeria, of all places, announces new regulations on social media companies.
Qualcomm buys a company that is supposed to help it move into operating cell phone towers.
More bad news for Russians as rich people are leaving the country and taking their money with them. The current situation will end one day. Then the rest of the world has to choose what to do with what is left in Russia. I hope we choose wisely.
We see evidence that China's warlords are paying attention to the things that have caused the Russians great problems. One great wish out of the Russian invasion is that China will learn not to invade Taiwan.
.....A case where facial recognition is good because it is being used by the good guys. They are the good guys this week. In five years, who knows?
Nvidia boasts about its GPUs being used to process new images from the James Webb telescope.
Computer programmers are in high demand and relatively low supply. Instead of more money, they want flexible work places. Some 42% may change jobs this year.
The governors of China are buy every available piece of equipment used to make semiconductors.
Apple signs a deal with Major League Soccer to stream all its games for ten years.
Jeff Bezos bought the Washington Post (few years ago). He built software to run newspapers. Now he sells that software to newspapers. The software is worth more than the newspaper. This is the story of Amazon Web Services, which is now worth more than the rest of Amazon.
Adobe is testing a free online version of Photoshop in Canada. Plans are to make it free everywhere.
.....After 27 years, Microsoft retires Internet Explorer (sometimes called internet destroyer).
Angst with social media and banning political ads.
Qualcomm wins in EU court and avoids a billion$ payment to Apple.
In an effort to reduce inflation, our Federal Reserve Board raises rates three-quarters of a point.
.....A look at the first year of Amazon with Jeff Bezos gone and Andy Jassy as CEO.
The Golden State Warriors with the NBA championship. Mostly forgotten were the days with this team played games in several cities in California including San Diego.
.....MIT researchers claim to have an AI sensor and processor chip that can be removed and replaced when an upgrade is available. If true, this is really something different and helpful. Some of us remember the day when you could open your PC case, pull out the processor board, and replace it with a board that had twice the processing power.
TSMC is spending big and building new semiconductor-making factories in Taiwan. I think TSMC is the most important company in world. It may single handedly prevent an invasion by the PRC.
And TSMC shows its plans for 3nm manufacturing.
Apple, a close partner with TSMC, is likely to benefit most from TSMC's advances in manufacturing.
oooops, the Internet, Amazon, eBay and others make it much easier to sell stolen goods.
And the new Apple laptop with M2 processor can be ordered with delivery next week.
Let's all walk barefoot on hot coals to show our ... something or other ... Let's NOT.
.....Today is Father's Day in the US.
Fascinating article looking at pandemic data and showing (1) vaccines didn't do much at all and (2) our government, for all the good intentions, didn't know much at all. As is usually the case in these things, the experts are wrong.
Programming languages for AI: just a slight mention of LISP and no mention of Prolog. Perhaps we should remember better. AI programming today is simply running scripts that call on libraries of software from someone else.
We need to resurrect "lifestyles of the Rich and Famous" except this time do the really really rich.
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