Since ChatGPT was released on November 30, 2022, “Artificial Intelligence” or “AI” has been in the news frequently. I’ve often been frustrated when reading news articles and blog posts that don’t define the term, since it can be used to mean quite different things in different contexts. When discussing ChatGPT Read more…
From MDN: A Web browser or browser is a program that retrieves and displays pages from the Web, and lets users access further pages through hyperlinks. A browser is the most familiar type of user agent. It uses a rendering engine to display web pages. Building a web browser is Read more…
This statistic comes from the Atlassian State of Teams 2024 report. The report was based on a survey of 5,000 knowledge workers and 100 Fortune 500 executives. The 5,000 knowledge workers surveyed worked across the U.S., Australia, India, Germany, and France. The mean age of the workers surveyed was 34, Read more…
I think complex decisions should be made via discussions on shared documents (Google docs, Microsoft Word, text files with version control, etc…) when possible. A document provides the context for the decision being made, and the comments allow for discussion on the various inputs to the decision. Version control can Read more…
According to the NOAA National Severe Storms Laboratory: Hailstones are formed when raindrops are carried upward by thunderstorm updrafts into extremely cold areas of the atmosphere and freeze. Hailstones then grow by colliding with liquid water drops that freeze onto the hailstone’s surface. If the water freezes instantaneously when colliding Read more…
Artificial intelligence, and specifically generative AI technologies have been in the news quite a bit recently. While AI gets the bulk of the media coverage, there are many other technologies that have made advances in recent years. Here are some non-AI related technologies that I am excited about: Passkeys. A passkey is Read more…
Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) is the term used to describe brain degeneration likely caused by repeated head traumas. CTE is a diagnosis made only at autopsy by studying sections of the brain. https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/chronic-traumatic-encephalopathy/symptoms-causes/syc-20370921 The signs and symptoms of CTE can include: Despite receiving more attention recently (at least based on Google web Read more…
As with many others I have been playing around with ChatGPT recently. If you are not familiar with it, here is the description of ChatGPT from its creators, OpenAI: We’ve trained a model called ChatGPT which interacts in a conversational way. The dialogue format makes it possible for ChatGPT to Read more…
In my ideal world, daylight saving time would be standard year round. Unfortunately that is not the world that we live in, so I do have to deal with the time change each spring and fall. I’m curious as to why the daylight saving time change occurs on Sunday mornings Read more…
“Is very good and I’m glad it exists” – LS But it can also be overwhelming. Almost any topic that I might want to learn about I can find information on in less than a second. For example, a quick Google search for “how does grep work” gives “about 21,700,000 Read more…