Gordon's Notes

I wrote this for Facebook friends but I keep seeing people praising the "Free Tax" program and dissing Turbo Tax -- without any ac...

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. &q...

My 10 year CrossFit anniversary is two months away. A few months after  I started as an old man of 53 I wrote : ... I now do CrossFit twice ...

The catalytic converter on my much loved 2010 Kia Sedona van was stolen. (I think there are two and the rear converter was removed. I'm ...

My Bell Super Air mountain bike helmet (removable face guard) came with an undocumented snap-in GoPro mount. I figured I'd use it to ho...

A friend asked me for advice on buying a bicycle suited to dirt trails (up to novice singletrack as well as city trails). She would want to ...

Over the past year or two several of my favorite writers have expressed uncertainty about the American cultural standard for "manliness...

Our daughter is doing a semester abroad in Florence Italy so I've been looking into voice, SMS and data services. In particular the tran...

I generally have opinions on things even in the absence of science or data. They are often wrong. Even so, for my own future amusement, here...

Paxlovid is indicated for persons at significant risk of bad COVID. As of June 2022 it's crazy-making hard to find a description of what...

 [Copied over from a tweet stream .] So now I'm trying to figure out what Great Replacement Theory is. It seems to be one part true and ...