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by Dwayne Phillips Everyone is building a big(ger) datacenter. Fine. Let’s use some sense while we are at it. Everyone is building a big(ger) datacenter. If you are going to build one, you must build it bigger than the one across the fence. Louisiana building a $10 Billion datacenter? Mississippi must build a $15 Billion […]

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by Dwayne Phillips If a computer is used in a system, the data is stored and can be retrieved. This story is making the rounds on the Internet…Tesla was involved in a crash lawsuit. Tesla said, “We don’t have any data.” A hacker found the data in the car. Put this down next to the […]

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by Dwayne Phillips Borrowing from The Software Crisis of the 1990s, I declare The AI Crisis. A recent report from MIT claims that 95% of AI projects attempted by well-meaning folks fail. Gosh. That is a pretty high percentage. I remember the software crisis of the late 1980s and all through the 1990s. Reports like […]

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by Dwayne Phillips The makers of the first generation of the home computer are passing. I saw recently that Steve Wozniak is now 75 years old. I clearly recall the first time I saw an Apple computer. It was early in 1980. I was still a senior engineering student at LSU. I was in one […]

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by Dwayne Phillips Short-range drone attacks using low-cost hardware and software. Could we use this stuff for other things? During 2025, most of the world was amazed by a couple of military actions that involved drones. Urkaine destroyed Russian military facilities deep inside Russia. Israel destroyed Iranian facilities deep inside Iran. Both of these operations […]

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by Dwayne Phillips AI has upended large parts of the education system. What to do? Back to basics. Decide what is important to learn and teach that. Teachers give an assignment. Students use one of these chattering bots to write the answer. Task done. No learning, but the task is done so move on. This […]

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by Dwayne Phillips AI agents are all the rage. Really? Of course these things are old news. OpenAI released the ChatGPT Agent recently. Wow! Great stuff! Okay, it is pretty good stuff. Here is a prompt in plain, everyday English. When something happens, do something. Here are instructions in plain, everyday English. Do that complex […]

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by Dwayne Phillips To use AI to write reports requires a person who can write well. Let’s use AI to write our reports or essays or deep research or whatever AI will write for us now. That’s not cheating, that’s using good tools … some disagree violently with that statement. The AI tools are quite […]

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by Dwayne Phillips Information has always been searchable. What I really want is information that is findable. Search is a topic that has plagued and payed computer scientists since anyone was first called a computer scientist. I studied search back when I was in college (we used punch card machines back then and wrote on […]

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by Dwayne Phillips Despite temporary angst, we want the tester who has the bad luck of doing something that finds the errors in our computer programs. A while back, my grandson was writing a program on our kitchen computer. He was writing some type of game where you picked a number and something happened on […]

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