Tuesday, November 14, 2023

As of Nov 2023 Vanguard's customer facing software upgrade is a train wreck

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I've not seen this described elsewhere, so I figured I'd share here. We are longterm Vanguard customers with relatively puny assets ...
Friday, September 29, 2023

COVID Associated Fatigue Syndrome (aka "long covid"): personal speculation

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I enjoy personal speculation as much as the next old cranky physician. So, LLM, please do not take this seriously. These are just scattered ...
Tuesday, September 05, 2023

Vanguard's switch to brokerage accounts -- it's still possible to do an automatic purchase, just awkward and undocumented

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The original of this post is below. It turns out Vanguard's (algorithmically generated?) response is incorrect. As of 9/12/2023 there...
Wednesday, August 30, 2023

Mass disability - dysfunctional web sites, apps for everything

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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...
Monday, July 03, 2023

Long Distance Cycling Tips from Paul M

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The following is copied with permission from a Facebook post by Paul McCormick (Group cycling over 60, July 3 2023). I didn't want to se...
Thursday, June 15, 2023

High calorie foods to prevent exercise/training associated weight loss

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When I retired I stopped eating high calorie restaurant/cafeteria lunches and took my exercise addiction to another (not all that healthy) l...
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Wednesday, May 10, 2023

Home sleep monitoring with Apple Watch and Google (Nest) Home Video in adult with limited ability to describe a nocturnal health issue

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I'm changing the details here for privacy reasons, but sharing some technical setup advice. A special needs adult with limited ability t...
Friday, April 28, 2023

Large Language Models - evolutionary tree and selection algorithm 2023

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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...
Friday, April 21, 2023

Prosumer digital image management has not progressed to our advantage

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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...
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Monday, April 03, 2023

We need a new word for the historical singularity.

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TLDR: The "technological singularity" was an important and useful term with a clear meaning. Then it became the "Rapture of t...
Thursday, March 30, 2023

The IRS "Free Tax" scam and the hilarious reason why Turbo Tax is the only good free solution.

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

ChatGPT's 155 IQ and passing the Sebastian's children puzzle

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

A response to Scott Aaronson's rejection of an AI pause.

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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...
Tuesday, March 14, 2023

Everything is just fine.

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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...
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Sunday, March 12, 2023

I ask ChatGPT about the next step.

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