Working Up

by Dwayne Phillips I am a prolific writer, well, sort of. I am in a temporary state of work and semi-retirement and hobby. For the past couple of weeks, I idle away the hours writing fiction. In a recent week, I wrote two short stories while doing a dozen other things. I wrote a 3,300-word […]

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by Dwayne Phillips A simple piece of paper on the table next to the keyboard keeps everything flowing — especially new ideas. I have a productivity multiplier that I use everyday and have for decades. It is not the computer that is a thousand or million times more powerful than what we used to go […]

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by Dwayne Phillips Rogue AI agents? Nope, it’s call malware. Malware (a portmanteau of malicious software) is any software intentionally designed to cause disruption or destruction to a computer, server, client, or computer network, leak private information, gain unauthorized access to information or systems, deprive access to information, or interfere with the user’s computer security […]

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by Dwayne Phillips Something seems expensive. The question is the same: is it worth it? Will that thing save money in the long run? How long is the long run? I read this article recently. It is about Apple and one of their recent computers that is loaded with processor power and memory and all […]

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by Dwayne Phillips One of the better solutions to a difficult problem is simply to trying harder. I was 17. I was a high school senior. It was baseball practice. I was the senior, the guy who knew stuff. The underclassmen were looking at me. I was supposed to teach them how to turn a […]

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by Dwayne Phillips Attempts to put unstructured information into a structure had their day. Goodbye to them. Much of the information that people use is unstructured. Consider a novel you like. Consider a text that is the foundation of a field of study. Not much structure that is easy to ingest into a computer. Until […]

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by Dwayne Phillips College professors and other educators continue to struggle needlessly with writing assignments and AI-regurgitated text. Here we have yet another story of a teacher with the best of intentions trying to have students write papers in the era of the current slate of AI systems that pump out text at the push […]

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by Dwayne Phillips Sometimes, you have to work hard to untangle what someone is trying to convey. Then again, if their words are tangled, maybe they don’t have anything to convey. I spend much of my days untangling the words of others. Long documents; long talks, and the like. What is that person trying to […]

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by Dwayne Phillips A long time ago, a substitute teacher in one of my classes was so interesting that teenagers cut their regular classes to sneak into his class and learn. I think it was 1972 or 1973 in Southern California. We were hippies or thought we were or wanted to be. And teenage hippies […]

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