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…
If you use CloudFront to serve static assets, you can setup CloudFront to send logs to an S3 bucket. Once the logs are in an S3 bucket, you can use Athena to query the logs. This gives you greater visibility into what requests are being made to your CloudFront distributions. Read more…
It is nice going back to code that you have not visited in a while and still being able to pick up the structure of the code and start working on it again quickly. There are a lot of good courses available for free, but one of my favorites is Read more…
Here are some of the resources I used near the beginning of the pandemic to track case numbers.