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What if we randomly picked qualified citizens to govern us? called Sortition aka. “Lottocracy”

Jan

3

2025

Imagine a political system where your neighbor could become a legislator overnight, not through campaign donations or party connections, but through a process as impartial as drawing a name from a hat. This system exists, and it’s called sortition – the selection of political officials through random lottery from the citizenry. Ancient Roots, Modern Relevance ...

Questions / Problems AI LLM’s like chatGPT routinely get wrong

Nov

24

2024

Despite their impressive capabilities in areas like writing, coding, and analysis, Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT and Claude often struggle with seemingly straightforward logic puzzles and mathematical reasoning. Let’s dive into why these sophisticated AI systems sometimes fail at tasks that many humans can solve with relative ease. Old timey flight times (not enough ...

London 2024 1

Mar

17

2024

Cheerio from London! We just returned from an amazing 5 day trip to one of my favorite cities in the world – London. There’s just something magical about the energy, history, and traditions of England’s capital that keep me coming back time and time again. Our trip was jam packed starting with stops at some ...

Fetch your Reddit posts,comments to a file using Go 2

Jan

19

2024

I have posted lots of content on Reddit and I would like to make a copy of of these locally, just to have a local record and make it easier to search my posts. There’s a couple of ways to do this, one method is simply Ask Reddit [email protected]., they provide an official Data Request ...

Microchip magic, the amazing science behind ASML EUV lithography machine

Dec

29

2023

Came across a series of videos explaining the intracacies of modern silicon chip fabricaion (Fab) , and was fascinated by the sheer complexity of making tiny transistors and circuits. In the heart of the silicon revolution, where chips smaller than snowflakes power our world, lies a Dutch titan: ASML. Their claim to fame? Lithography machines, ...

Create longer music tracks by appending same track with crossfade

Dec

12

2023

A common thing I usually do with my video files is background music, sometimes I find a track that I like but its too short usually under two minutes, so what I wind up having to do is exented the track by composiiting the track onto itself but doing in such a was as to ...

Flight MH370 mystery, what actually happened, the only reasonable explanation.

Dec

10

2023

Introduction Aviation has witnessed its fair share of mysteries throughout history, capturing the imagination of the world with disappearances that seem to defy explanation. One such perplexing case is the vanishing of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, the biggest aviation mystery since the disappearance of legendary aviator Amelia Earhart Earhart and her navigator Fred Noonan in ...

New Zealand and Australia: visiting down under

Dec

3

2023

From Windy Wellington to Sun-Kissed Sydney My recent trip was a whirlwind of antipodean (Of, or pertaining to, Australia or New Zealand ) delights, hopping between Wellington’s cool charm and Sydney’s sun-drenched shores. Let me take you on a whistle-stop tour of our adventures. Sydney Harbour Cruise A trip to the land down under begins with a few ...

Play Internet Radio on you Amazon Alexa Echo

Oct

20

2023

Amazon Echo is a smart speaker, which means it does more than play music. With Amazon’s virtual assistant Alexa, Echo can tell you about the weather, create shopping lists, help you in the kitchen, control other smart products such as lights and televisions, and a lot more. One request that isn’t very obvious is that you can ...

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