My new book makes a great gift!
Lessons With Lambo: Growth and New Tricks Klein, Mel Buy Now
It’s Got a Nice Rhythm, and Good Vibes
Everyone’s talking about vibe coding — just describe what you want to an AI and let it build. I think that’s going to work about as well as “just describe what you want to a developer” did before anyone invented project management. The AI tools …
Not the Book I Started, But the One I Finished
Cross-posted to Linkedin One of the unexpected joys of retirement is that a project can start anywhere and end up somewhere completely different. Last summer I wrote a short allegory about my dog — a meditation on “this too shall pass” — and posted it …
Stochasm
Cross-posted from Linkedin One of the things I enjoy doing in retirement is picking up a problem I don’t fully understand and figuring it out. Last year that meant learning enough JavaScript to build a Monte Carlo simulation toolkit from scratch. Monte Carlo methods let …
Wisdom Of The Crowd
Internet resources have enabled user-contributed advice. But now that it’s so voluminous, how do you find the wheat among the chaff? Here’s one solution.
I’ve got a bad feeling about this
We…might be in a lot of trouble…
Ooh That Smell
A short list of items to buy when you first begin aromatherapy…
Craniagnostic
All my life, I’ve been agnostic…
If Z was given a second chance, maybe God deserves one, as well.
We’re On A Road To Nowhere
Chris Hedges is such a Pollyanna: Systems of governance that are seized by a tiny cabal become mafia states. The early years—Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton in the United States—are marked by promises that the pillage will benefit everyone. The later years—George W. Bush and …
Create Your Own Adventure
The Covid-19 pandemic’s been going on for 2 years. Most of us have more than a little fatigue…we’re tired of restrictions, tired of doomsayers. We want “normal”, whatever that means. Indications are that the dominant variants are less virulent. Treatments must be improving, given that …