Gordon's Notes

It's hard to imagine how very simple much of our technology environment was in the 1980s. Much of what we interacted with was still unde...

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 ...

In the years following the Great Recession, from 2010 to 2013, many web services went offline . In retrospect that was the end of the Berner...

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...

One of the fun things that happens to Americans as we become redundant to life's requirements is signing up for Medicare. There's a ...

In early 2024 the American DOJ sued Apple for an illegal monopoly over the smartphone market. I agree with the thrust of the suit. Apple may...

This  Nov 2023 blog post from the CEO of a budget/financial management software firm (Monarch)  tells us a lot about why we don't have a...

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...

Once upon a time, long ago, a middle manager (D.P.) in a tech org told me she didn't want her team to be made up only of wizards. I don&...

I last wrote about "mass disability" and the Left Behind in a 2021 post . The concept has sometimes seemed on the edge of going ma...

I'm changing the details here for privacy reasons, but sharing some technical setup advice. A special needs adult with limited ability t...

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...

Every so often the software market fails. I've had this happen to me a few times. From 1997 to 2007 I used a variety of PalmOS devices f...

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...

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. &q...