2026-01-30

IV Parking Only

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Intellectual Ventures (IV) used to be in this building.  They had some signage to reserve parking right at the front of the building. The si...
2025-12-16

Angel's Flight

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A very short railway.  $1.50 per person as I write this (2025).  

L.A. Live

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  L.A. Live is the area near the Convention Center.

Hotel Figueroa in Los Angeles near the Convention Center

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  Cafe Fig inside the Hotel Figueroa is delicious!

Ice skating rink with palm trees reflected

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  Yup.  An ice skating rink on a 78 (F) degree day in Los Angeles.

Ahmanson Theatre

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Department of Water and Power (Los Angeles)

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  How cool!  The Department of Water and Power (DWP) in Los Angeles has a pond on top of their parking structure.

Trees and Sky

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2025-10-02

LLM Consciousness

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(Image by Grok) Good summary of LLM memory issues:   From  https://simple.ai/p/the-ai-memory-problem The next real breakthrough probably isn...
2025-09-17

FSD Progress

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This video is amazing! I'm annoyed that Tesla got away with promising FSD for so long without delivering. But it seems to work pretty we...
2025-09-01

Apologetic AI

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I was showing my son this building that is obviously a datacenter with massive amounts of refrigeration on the roof. He said, "The roo...
2025-07-28

Concrete

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  Financial District, San Francisco

Maya, redux

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I had previously in 2006 written rap lyrics about the Maya art package crashing on me: Maya Rap More recently in 2023, and having forgotten ...
2025-06-20

Anti-War

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I've been trying to make an anti-war (really more like anti-military-industrial complex) photo using AI.  I finally have one I like! htt...
2025-06-09

Consciousness part 5

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Consciousness Part 5 Assume we're living in a simulation, as Scott Adams and Elon Musk believe. If you're authoring our simulation, ...
2025-05-25

Consciousness part 4

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  In terms of consciousness, memory is generally talked about in two ways (at least in science fiction): 1.   Our memory of others; and  2...
2025-04-12

Consciousness part 3

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So this one time, at band camp (i.e., work), we had a bunch of code written in Visual C++ 6.0.  (It wasn't even called Visual Studio bac...

Claude, the junior programmer

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I love AI for doing 'small' programming tasks.  I put 'small' in quotes because I don't know how to quantify 'small...
2025-03-31

Consciousness part 2

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Is it possible to separate a discussion of consciousness from memory? In part 1, I asked LLama 3.2 what it was like to spring into conscious...
2025-02-03

Consciousness part 1

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Wow, it really is easy to run a local LLM.  Eric R, who was a colleague of mine at ArenaNet, told me about ollama a year go, but I have just...