Rants, Raves, and Rhetoric v4

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  • People forget the new in news

    July 20, 2024
    News

    I see quite a bit of worry about how the mainstream media doesn’t cover Trump and Biden the same way. Biden makes mistakes in the way he speaks and its breathlessly covered for weeks. For months Trump made the same mistakes and barely a story. Why? The news covered Trump’s mistakes and stumbles in 2016…

  • Third parties

    July 19, 2024
    Gov’t / Law / Politics

    Several United States political parties routinely appear on the presidential ballots every four years. But, I think they go about it all wrong. Let’s say the Libertarian party wins. Chase Oliver becomes president. He’s president with a Congress that’s Democratic or Republican in one or both chambers. He’s going to have a hard time with…

  • Fake missing children posts

    July 17, 2024
    Facebook

    I don’t get it. A few people shared posts claiming the same photo of a child from different cities was missing. It got me looking into the phenomenon. Law enforcement agencies are calling it a bait-and-switch scam. After the post gets widely shared, the creator will change it to the real purpose: malicious website, deceptive…

  • Facebook cloning

    July 16, 2024
    Social / IM / Chat

    Someone copying the name of another person on social media is annoying, but I don’t think of it as hacking. Anyone can make an account. Social media companies made verification methods precisely because clones are easy to make and when do so about someone famous, it could lead to a devaluation of a brand. For…

  • Data ocean security

    July 12, 2024
    Uncategorized

    As data moves to the cloud, the security moves from my computers to someone else’s. That’s fine. Even with “MY” computers, I don’t have full control over everything, so rather than trusting my coworkers to do the right thing, I’m trusting others. My clients operate in an ecosystem. At my start here, we were highly…

  • Mobile PDF

    July 1, 2024
    Adobe

    Portable Document Format is a useful tool for creating printer consistent documents. In a print-centric world, they made a ton of sense. The output should match the designer vision. The assumption was the Internet was just the vehicle to get instructions to the printer. The world has changed. After my printer died 5 years ago,…

  • Data is full of bias

    May 21, 2024
    Uncategorized

    Stumbled on an article about the job market will demand data skills because of A.I. A big part of that is that it will rely on good, quality data, which will require people who can ensure that the systems are fed that. Specifically this caught my eye: “Data underpins all of the large language models.…

  • AI black box magic

    April 24, 2024
    Artificial Intelligence, Uncategorized

    Reading an email about C3 AI being developed to locate extremists. This nugget to start put me off. Siebel: This is the first time we’ve done things in computer science that weren’t a mathematical certainty, other than random number generators. Everything else we’ve done in computer science, up until this day, has been deterministic. Every…

  • Generative AI instead of search

    March 12, 2024
    Artificial Intelligence

    About 6 months ago, I played a bit with large language models. It was interesting. The responses were like a middle school kid didn’t read the book, but tried to summarize the Cliff Notes. The past couple days, there has a been a problem in another IT area affecting my ability to do my work.…

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