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Entries Tagged as 'Humor'

Machine-Aided Decisions

January 15th, 2026 · No Comments

by Dwayne Phillips We have come a long way with AI aiding in decisions. The machine is powerful and new. Or is it? AI is helping us decide what to do. It performs analysis in seconds that would have taken weeks or months. Wow! Look at us now—machine-aided decisions. Great new stuff. Or is it? […]

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Tags: Artificial Intelligence · Decide · Humility · Humor · Machine Learning · Management · Technology

Playing Checkers on the Computer

August 22nd, 2024 · No Comments

by Dwayne Phillips We have computing power a thousand magnitudes greater than what took us to the moon and back. And we use it to play checkers. Sitting here in the coffee shop writing these blog posts, I look across the room and note someone playing checkers on their new Windows 11 computer. Also on […]

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Tags: Communication · Computing · Energy · Humility · Humor · Technology · Writing

Which Door Opens?

July 6th, 2020 · No Comments

by Dwayne Phillips Sometimes we do things backwards and expect everyone else to know. Here in the year of the virus, I sit outside a nationally recognized chain of coffee shops (whose name begins with an “S”) viewing the Internet and occasionally writing blog posts….(is that a long-enough opening sentence?)… But anyways, in the year […]

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Tags: Humor · Observation · People