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AI Advances Are Exciting! Also Unintelligible!
Psychologists use various terms to describe disorganized speech. “Word salad” – words and concepts so disconnected that there is no logical thread. “Neologisms” – made up words that have no literal meaning. “Loose association” – associations that are irrelevant or out…
DeepSeek And The Business Of AI
AI is in the news lately. Oh, you noticed? There’s been so much AI news that at times it has almost cut through the political chaos. There was the day last week when US stocks lost more than $1 trillion dollars in market cap because of a newish Chinese AI named…
The Return Of Bruceb News
I’m going to change what arrives in your mailbox in a very minor way. You don’t have to do anything except whitelist my emails when they get sent to junk mail. (Gmail sometimes sends them to “Promotions” for some reason.) Here’s the short version. I’m retired from…
“Optimize Enjoyment”: Remembering Jim Rowson
“Celebrate while you still can Cause any second it may end . . .” – Oingo Boingo, No One Lives Forever Jim Rowson passed away peacefully on December 26, 2024 at age 70 from fucking cancer. (That was his term for it, and the fucking cancer deserved the abuse, the…
The Rise And Fall Of Browser Home Pages
Remember browser home pages? You do? I wouldn’t have guessed, you must be older than you look. All the rest of you children, gather round the fire, let me take you back to a simpler time when we still said “World Wide Web” and you could hear the capital letters. In…
Seeing The World Through Rose-Colored Glasses (Literally)
These two photos look identical to me. What I see looks like the photo on the right. I have mild deuteranomaly – red-green colorblindness. Eight percent of men are red-green colorblind. (Almost no women. It’s a genetic thing.) It’s hard to describe, because my world…
Your Apartment, But Make It Game Of Thrones
Some demos were posted this week that make it easier to picture how technology can change reality. The picture above shows a laptop in a perfectly normal apartment with a Game of Thrones augmented reality overlay. Stick with me and I’ll explain enough for you to know…
Mixed Reality Goes Mainstream – Meta Quest 3 And Alien Puffballs
An alien spaceship has blasted a hole in my ceiling and is landing on the floor in front of my bookcases. It’s a game on the Meta Quest 3 headset named “First Encounters.” My office is fully visible through the passthrough cameras. In the picture above, you can see a…
AI Glasses Might Invade Privacy (But That’s Old News)
Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses have cameras in the frames. You can take pictures and shoot videos, then upload them. It’s a fast and convenient way to record a moment without pulling out your phone. You can post the images to Facebook or Instagram, or ask AI questions…
Google NotebookLM & AI Podcasts
Take a minute – literally just one minute – and listen to the beginning of one of these podcast conversations about recent books. Each is about ten minutes long but just listen to the first minute of one of them to get the idea. I’ll wait. Veilpiercer by Bruce…