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Orwell was an optimist. We carry view screens in our pocket and can be tracked and monitored backwards in time.

Challenge them by describing a production path that solves both of your problems being business savvy AND being engineering savvy. As Knuth said, the computer doesn’t care if it is…

Kindle Keyboard from 2010 is my most used reader in 2022. Still several book’s use on the original battery, text to speech, music, 4 GB, better contrast than illuminated models, wo…

Our Hoopa lived virtually exclusively on shellfish for hundreds of years.

Even as a software engineer, I think I could build from primitive materials a couple of battery operated transceivers to replace the signal flags or horsemen for critical communica…

Absolutely agree. My wife can read and remember everything, but is hard pressed to say how the elements fit into her life. When I read I recall little but compile the experience as…

Often you must lie in order to tell the truth. After all, language is a poor simulacrum of life, but, then, we use it else "Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent" an…

What comes next? 10, 15, 38, 1844... (Besides the obvious answer of the existence of infinite ways to generate any sequence) "Magnetization ...1853, 4124, 4818" from the index to T…

Instead of listing possible technologies and solutions to the problem of re-floating the container ship, why not make an ordered list of worst possible outcomes and approach the pr…

Incorporate core rights of the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights into the body of the Constitution ensuring, as Article 30, that any attempt to weaken or remove any of these…

Anything mediated by a mind is an artifice: art. It may be art from an artisan or craft used in a trade. It may be intellectual such as a mathematical proof. It may arguably be non…

I knew Professor McCarthy at SAIL back in the day when the Colossal Cave Adventure was making the rounds in the mid-70's. Besides the technical acuity you would expect from the Dir…

Bitcoin mining power is concentrated in China with about eight times the hash rate of number two United States, which in turn has a similar hash rate to Russia and Kazakhstan. Roun…

Read and understand the thirteen books of the Elements by Euclid, preferably in the original Greek. This ought to be sufficient for a fundamental understanding of the mathematical …

In the 1990’s I compiled a rather large set of cliches and stock phrases intended to help users avoid them in their writing. I later discovered the compilation was in demand to hel…

This applies to Crypto as well. Negligible fundamentals. Negligible oversight.

I always identify myself and recognize the voice or text of my counterpart before diving into the subject. At least I do after mistakenly blurted something solely for my spouse int…

Remembering Marvin Minsky's concept of agents composing a Society of Mind, I have no problem playing poker with myself or watching TikTok to overhear samples of distinct personas t…

Elon Musk's SpaceX Starlink: thousands of satellites that can be re-positioned en masse in time of need and meanwhile reserve a spot in the LEO surface. Useful in both communicatio…

When my son has asked me what he should do about courses or employment or even vacation choices, I answer that he ought to choose the path that gives him the most choices. He has t…