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.
emTwitter cuts 4,400 of its 5,500 contractor jobs. Bidenomics at work. And people still voted for this.
One of our Senators declares that Congress will fix Twitter if Mr. Musk doesn't. Gosh, wow.
Looking back at what Warren Buffet has said about crypto currencies for years. A mirage.
Horrible crash at an air show in Dallas over the weekend. I was once told by a WWII pilot, "There ain't nothin' bigger than the sky and their ain't no reason for two airplanes to be in the same place."
Tips for new freelance writers from an old freelance writer.
How do you write 10,000 words in a week? One at a time. And there is other advice in here about goals and planning and putting your fingers on the keys and banging away.
And there is a market for senior, i.e., old, writers writing for other old(er) people.
The long view of being a writer.
....Basic website that will create a GitHub "business card" for you.
Demographics: population of the world is now over 8 Billion. This will soon start declining.
Coming real soon now is the GPT-4 model. This promises yet another leap in machine learning.
Dell updates its server line of computers for better high-performance computing and the like.
Amazon to lay off 10,000 corporate employees.
Google was sued by 40 states. It will pay $392Million (with an M). A very small figure for Google.
How the rich and famous lived in the 1980s.
ooops, the Russians wrote software, faked a US company, and our government bought it.
.....Tesla is to have a big event on 1 December about their big electric trucks.
NASA puts a little bitty cubesat in orbit around the moon.
How to hack into a Starlink terminal using a soldering iron.
Part of the Meta layoffs was the entire team devoted to AI research infrastructure. Without the O&M guys, operations and maintenance, nothing works.
If you collect enough data on social media (the rumor mill), you can hear about a pandemic before the government does. And let's not call this "AI."
This study provides insight into how the Chinese are trying to hire for AI skills. Again, let's now call this "AI."
Nvidia creates a research team in Israel to work on autonomous vehicles.
Goldman Sachs, they predict the economy, predicts $154Billion-a-year spent on humanoid robots.
Honda shows some new electric vehicles that may provide mobility to those who need it. The technology is here. It is time for companies to provide solutions for people who need help.
A review of Nvidia's RTX 4080 graphics system.
A Federal jury in Texas rules that Intel owes about a Billion$$$ for patent infringement.
Qualcomm updates its Snapdragon chips so that next year's Android phones will be better than this year's android phones. The old phone still make phone calls.
Meta AI has created a large language model based on 48million academic research papers. Given this data, it is much better at searching academic research papers than other language models. That is no surprise, but only big-dollar companies like Meta can do this can of work.
Public libraries are creating music streaming services that emphasize local musicians.
.....Some technology history about the "like" button on Facebook. Some adults seem to think that was significant and changed western civilization. Perhaps the definition of "adult" has changed.
One person's experience trying to use the new Apple Emergency SOS Satellite thing.
Several apps that bring text-to-image to Apple computers with Apple silicon processors. "Man sitting at a table."
A round up of this year's tech layoffs.
Predictions that tech layoffs in India will become much worse.
Nvidia and Microsoft annouce their plan to build an AI supercomputer. And we probably shouldn't call this "AI."
Dell pays $1Billion (with a B) to settle a lawsuit over stocks.
Amazon is offering "early outs" to employees. Retire early before being laid off.
If this wasn't about taxpayers' money, it would be funny. The Dept of Homeland Security, 20 years into its existence, is "an agency no one wanted and everyone is stuck with..." Time to disband it.
Qualcomm has a new name for the processors it wants to see in personal computers: Oryon.
The social network called Mastodon is growing. Here is there odd URL.
Testers show that Apple's AirPods work pretty well as a hearing aid. You need to buy an iPhone as well. Still, this shows the technology for the hearing impaired is available and is inexpensive.
.....And now we have "effective altruism." There are worse things a person can do with time and money. Some have found that this movement has lost its way. Some, like me, would say they were headed in the wrong direction from the first step.
We have hyper inflation in the graphics processor industry. Bigger and more $$$ come along with more performance. How about the same performance in a smaller size and a lower price?
Need a software architecture? Are you sure? That old phrase YAGNI (you aren't gonna' need it) applies here. The great majority of the time, four-syllable words to describe simple software are a waste.
The super rich want to live forever. I doubt they understand what they are saying.
The folks at Hacker News discuss how to earn a living without killing yourself in a cubicle.
Flipping through the headlines on a number of news sites shows that the entire world rests on Twitter. When Twitter goes, the world will collapse. Odd that adults would actually write such things.
.....Yet another discussion of the 40-hour work week.
Let's go back 20+ years and consider distributed computing and making Amazon run.
No kidding, this is pretty amazing. Watch the video to see how Notion AI generates writing from a few prompts. If this is not a faked video, this changes many things. This is the basic mimicry we see under the banner of "artificial intelligence." It is mimicry. Nevertheless, it can be quite useful. It sure saves a lot of typing.
The concept of Data-Community-As-A-Service.
Meta AI released Galactica to help science researchers. It was pulled three days later because it didn't work. Does anyone at these places know how to test things?
For $149, you can buy a machine that will cut vinyl records. Let the fun begin.
There are hundreds of open jobs at emTwitter.
.....Dell and Intel are working to build data center servers that use much less electrical power. And, by the way, what does it mean to use 3 times less power? English please.
Information on Google's mixture-of-experts method of creating AI models more efficiently.
Is the AI winter here? All these tech layoffs may mean, "yes."
emTwitter restores Mr. Trump's account. Mr. Trump says he won't use it.
I am interested to see if the mainstream media will promote Mr. Trump's campaign for President the way they did it in 2016. Reporting on Mr. Trump raised ratings and ad dollars. He ran a low-cost campaign because he received free TV time. Will they repeat?
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