Gordon's Notes

TeslaTakedown (#TeslaTakedown) events occur nationwide. I put those in the MSP metro region on the nokings.kateva.org calendar. The TeslaT...

nokings.kateva.org  lists Twin Cities (Minneapolis and St Paul) metro region events supporting American constitutional democracy and governa...

I've long wondered what the MAGA mean by "woke" and why they hate it so much.  A recent essay by the scribe of the technarchy...

I don't have the patience to dig through Project 2025. I was hoping a journalist I follow would do an opinion-free overview but I haven...

I expect it will be transiently reversed, but the Jan 21, 2025 federal informer program was a historic marker. Nobody will be able to say t...

The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) informer program launched within government on Jan 21 2025. This is a historic milestone.  [1] “… I...

1. I was right about polling being worthless 2. At least Biden was spared humiliation  3. Americans chose oligarchy willingly.  4. Our feebl...

I'm putting this down as a marker for me to look back to in a few years. When autonomous vehicles are able to operate in Minnesota winte...

In advance of Nov 5 2024, some thoughts on  Muskism. Because I can't resist this kind of thing. Musk and his fellow tech oligarchs more ...

These days my social media experience is largely Mastodon. There's something to be said about a social network that's so irreparably...

This morning on my Mastodon : It’s possible that we have built an economical and technical environment that is too complex and treacherous f...

My current social media vice is Mastodon , with Threads 2nd and Bluesky a distant 3rd. (For me Facebook isn't actually a vice; it'...

Almost 40 years ago we used Quicken version 2 or 3 for DOS 3.1 on a Panasonic 8086 with 640K of memory and a CPU too feeble for a modern toa...

The following two diagrams were taken from  Mooler et al's GitHub LLM guide (April 2023) . I'm posting them here as a snapshot of th...

TLDR: The "technological singularity" was an important and useful term with a clear meaning. Then it became the "Rapture of t...

A Scientific American contributor found ChatGPT (probably 3) scored 155 on a standard IQ test : Estimated on the basis of five subtests, the...

Scott Aaronson, who works on AI safety for OpenAI, wrote a critique of AI Pause that was not up to his usual standards. Here's what I w...

The ad-funded internet is collapsing. It's been ailing for years but, as seems to the rule, the last bit is happening quite quickly. I...

 Not a bad response. ”Describe what happens when ChatGPT is enhanced with natural language processing and domain-specific knowledge modules....

TL;DR: It's not that ChatGPT is miraculous, it's that cognitive science research suggests human cognition is also not miraculous. ...