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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 ...

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 ...

AI conversational text model, ChatGPT, the end of Google? 2

Dec

9

2022

The latest rage sweeping the Internet circa December 2022 is chatGPT, What is chatGPT? Here I’ll let it (chatGPT) answer that question itself (The paragraphs below were created with this chatbot) Midjourney Generated Image ChatGPT (https://chat.openai.com/chat ) is a cutting-edge language model developed by OpenAI. It is a variant of the popular GPT-3 model, which ...

Mid Journey , DALL·E 2 , Computer AI generated Artwork, possibilities and limitations

Sep

18

2022

In case you’re unaware , there’s a new crop of beta and public AI artwork generation technologies, that actually create some impressive looking artwork and imagery from relatively simple textual descriptions. Among the current crop of popular systems, these include: MidJourney, Dalle-E 2 , Stable Diffusion and many others… What these systems allow users of ...

DeepMind new AI coding engine is the beginning of the end for your average software engineer as a career

Feb

2

2022

Yes, I know the headline sounds very click-baity but, after reading the recent Deepmind accomplishment over here DeepMind says its new AI coding engine is as good as an average human programmer, and putting the pieces together, you realize the kind of accomplishment does spell the beginning of the end for traditional software development, as ...

Quotes 5

Jul

21

2020

Just a simple web page with some of my favorite quotes… Feel free to add your favorites in the comments below “We have two lives, the second begins, when we realize we only have one.” Confucius “Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.” ...

What I would like to see happen if the US economy were revamped because of this virus

Apr

8

2020

My wish list of socioeconomic enhancements for the US would be.. Universal Healthcare: this is a no brainier , every other developed country offers it’s citizens this, they do it for a fraction of the US private system, so it’s bs to say it’s too expensive to do here. In the long run universal healthcare ...

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