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 …
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 …
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 …
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.
We…might be in a lot of trouble…
A short list of items to buy when you first begin aromatherapy…
All my life, I’ve been agnostic…
If Z was given a second chance, maybe God deserves one, as well.
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 …
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 …
Three e-mails from Donald Trump, this morning: Ostensibly from Jim Jordan, subject: “I need help”. Much more self-aware than I realized. I hope he can get it while incarcerated. One from 45, himself, all about how he’s fighting Big Tech (fear, fear, fear!), and how …
