AI Clarification

I've been mulling over your questions in response to my Copilot post all evening and will hopefully have a more fleshed-out response in upcoming days but I wanted to at least give some initial responses. ..you have to understand the system as a whole to make a proper

An askance perspective

Bryan, you asked at the end of your last post for an analogy to help contextualize the advent of AI. You wondered about a member of religious sect, whose teachings prohibit the use of automobiles, perhaps opting to use one in service to a noble purpose. That is a curious

Copilot dilemma

I'm circumventing my policy of never talking about AI by instead talking about Github Copilot, simply a VS Code extension. Okay, not really, I'm talking about AI, and I hate that I'm here adding to the noise. I had a conversation with Fuchs recently

Thanks, but no

This past weekend we hosted a murder mystery party. The theme was that of a posh eighteenth-century masquerade. Guests arrived in costume themed to the period and each with their own mask tied to the identity of the character they were playing, ranging from the Countess to Bluebird, Dove, Lion,

Hardware hasn't been commoditized

or.. why do I still need to host my own shit?

Even flow

Last night my Pilot Iro-Utsushi Dip Pen arrived with a bottle of De Atramentis Document Ink. It’s rare for me to buy things for myself, but I have a soft spot for fine papers, pens, and inks. It’s a curious fascination that I know I share with many—

Virtual Co-working

I have strong opinions on meetings. I was an instant fan of 37 Signals when they famously came out hard against meetings in their book and I was nodding along with a recent podcast episode by Adam Grant called Why meetings suck and how to improve them. One of the

A case of identity

We were talking around the house this morning about verified online identities. Apparently this came up in recent conversation with Nikki Haley. I understand that she is in favor of such things, for which she received significant blowback. Be that as it may, we found online identities to be an

To see who’s not there

I received my University of Wisconsin alumni magazine the other day in the mail, and in the course of reading an interview with the new provost, Charles Isbell, I was struck by his response on a question about his philosophy of leadership: To me, these kinds of questions boil down

Swords of Freeport

FreePort. A city of thieves, cutthroats, mercenaries, and worse still - capitalists. The only free hold in the lands, without a king or queen to rule over it - the perfect place to make your fortune... or get your throat cut trying.