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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...

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...

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

  Financial District, San Francisco

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 ...

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...

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

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

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...

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

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...

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...

Elon Musk says he's great at Diablo IV. https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1859304361547182451 Maybe. People aren't buying it. https://ww...

I had a conversation with ChatGPT (4o) - an actual voice conversation - about a book series I'm reading.  This is the transcript ChatGPT...

In 2013 Microsoft held a "Going Native" event about C++ at their campus in Redmond.  ("Going Native" in contrast to ...

Daniel is now one of my favorite people: This approach works for Windows 11 as well, except, of course, they moved all the options around, b...

I always wondered if the Security Now podcast name was inspired by Seinfeld's " Serenity Now !" But anyway this happened: The ...

What's this? It's the plumbing for World of Color at Disneyland California Adventure. They lowered the water level. And here's s...

It's been in the news that Elon Musk announced that he will announce Tesla robotaxis  in August, 2024.  Everyone thinks is he is full of...

I had a goal of posting a new blog entry every day (on average) last year.  I got about half way through and then stopped.  I had a chance d...