Thursday, November 30
Breakthrough Known as Q*
In today’s column, I am going to walk you through a prominent AI-mystery that has caused quite a stir leading to an incessant buzz across much of social media and garnering outsized headlines in the mass media. This is going to be quite a Sherlock Holmes adventure and sleuth detective-exemplifying journey that I will be taking you on.
Please put on your thinking cap and get yourself a soothing glass of wine.
The roots of the circumstance involve the recent organizational gyrations and notable business crisis drama associated with the AI maker OpenAI, including the off and on-again firing and then rehiring of the CEO Sam Altman, along with a plethora of related carry-ons. My focus will not particularly be the comings and goings of the parties involved. I instead seek to leverage those reported facts primarily as telltale clues associated with the AI-mystery that some believe sits at the core of the organizational earthquake. READ MORE...
Wednesday, November 29
The Unusual
BBC | Zaria Gorvett. Tyrian purple was the most valuable color in the world for hundreds of years until its recipe vanished. Using ancient clues, one man embarked on a 16-year quest to resurrect this legendary dye. (Read)
Atavist | Lily Hyde. The story of three Ukrainian women from two generations of the same family who all became pregnant a few weeks apart, before a war came between them. (Read)
What's A Coming?
New Year's Eve is the final day of December 2023 and most of us will get SHIT FACED DRUNK either at home or by attending a party. That is the one night that I do not go out for any reason after dark. In fact, most of the time, I am in bed sleeping long before midnight comes a calling.
The month of December can be a chilly to cold month or it can be a chilly to warm month. I remember back in the late 1980s when I lived in North Carolina, my wife (now ex-wife) and I hosted our parents for a Christmas Day Lunch and we ate that lunch outside on our back porch, because it was so warm.
Not much business is conducted between Thanksgiving and Christmas and if you are trying to solicit donations from companies in your area, you are typically SOL... because their budgets for that year have already been allocated and more than likely, they have already gotten next year's budget approved by management or the Board depending upon whether they are a public or private company.
This is also true for sales, so the workforce is building inventory for the next year rather than filling orders for the remainder of this year.
Once we get these two holidays, Thanksgiving and Christmas and our hangovers from New Years Eve, we put BALLS TO THE WALL as we want to make the first quarter financials of the new year look better than expected. This not always happens but that's management's game plan.
What will 2024 look like?
- We have a Presidential election
- Donald Trump will be spending a lot of time in court
- Russia will still be fighting in Ukraine
- Israel will still be fighting in the Gaza Strip
- China will still be contemplating invading Taiwan
- Illegal immigrants will still be flowing over the border
- Crime and violence will still continue in our big cities
- WOKENESS will still be cancelling non believers
- Transwomen will still be invading female sports
- Blacks will still hate white and will start hating all the Mexican coming into the USA
- Liberal will still push for the end of fossil fuels
- Joe Biden will still be investigated for corruption
- Gasoline prices will fluctuate again
- Inflation will remain above pre-Biden levels
- FOX News will report the news while the other networks continue to censor whatever hurts liberals
- Our military will continue to deteriorate as will our infrastructure
- Our National Debt will continue to increase
- College students will continue to memorize for the grade and retain nothing or very littlE
HUMANOID ROBOTS WITH AI WILL CONTINUE TO EVOLVE FASTER THAN ANTICIPATED LEAVING CONGRESS WITH THEIR HEADS UP THEIR ASSES NOT REALIZING THEY NEED TO PASS LEGISLATION TO REGULATE...
A Little Science
UK-based Oxford Quantum Circuits announces the world's first cloud-based quantum computing platform for use in commercial enterprise applications (More) | Quantum computing 101 (More)
Tuesday, November 28
New Science
Scientists identify almost 200 new CRISPR molecules after searching through databases of rare and unusual bacterial systems; may open new types of gene editing applications in mammals (More) |CRISPR 101 (More)
Study finds bladder-like cells on resilient plants like quinoa fend off insects and disease, are not used to store water for droughts; findings overturn a century-old theory in plant biology (More)
Astronomers detect second-most energetic cosmic ray on record; origins of the subatomic particle traveling near the speed of light remain a mystery (More)
Just About Me
- Born in 1947
- Begin working in 1969
- Married twice
- One child - daughter
- Lived: Virginia, Cairo, Egypt, North Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky
- Played football, baseball, basketball, volleyball, and track (discus, shot put, javelin) in high school
- I am spiritual but not religious
- Hobbies: Writing, Oil/Acrylic Painting, Photography, listening to books on tape
- Banned from LinkedIn and Facebook
- President of Quest Training, Inc.
- Became debt free in 2000
- Retired in 2015
- Education: BA, MBA, MCSE, Certifications
- Worked: 45 years - not including part-time work
- Positions: waiter, construction worker, textile worker, customer service rep, sailor, reservist, computer technician, instructor, professor, department chair, assist dean, dean, salesperson, director, executive director, corporate director, adjunct, consultant, course writer, curriculum developer, auditor, and company president.
If I had the chance to live my life all over again, I would not change a frigging thing that I did.
WHY???
Because everything I did was specifically and carefully designed by someone greater than me to have me become the person I am today and will be tomorrow as my life keeps evolving.
Changing any of that would change who I am, and I like who I am today.
I possess no technical skills like auto mechanics, electrical, carpentry, plumbing, brick mason, or house building.
My driving skills are less now than they were when I retired.
I have lost part of my hearing, and my eyesight is worsening.
I am not a democrat nor a republican, but I am a liberal conservative who is not in favor of socialism or a high national debt.
I will never buy an electric vehicle nor a hybrid until the cost of battery replacement declines.
I have traveled all over the world, before I retired but much more since I retired and I like going to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina the best.
My wife and I have been on twelve 7–10-day cruises, including the Mediterranean, Hawaii, and Alaska.
I am very fond of Salmon, Cod, and Tuna.
I have not eaten red meat for over twenty years except an occasional hamburger once or twice a year or a steak once a year. I prefer chicken and turkey.
I stopped smoking cigarettes and drinking alcohol at the age of 40... and did so COLD TURKEY with no aids except my own personal discipline and determination.
I am NOT WEALTHY and glad of it because I would not know what to spend all that money on because I believe in buying only what you need not what you want.
I am opinionated and sarcastic and not very diplomatic when it comes to telling the truth.
It is not easy getting to know me or becoming my friend.
World's Largest Iceberg
The world's largest iceberg is drifting from the Antarctic Circle toward the Southern Ocean, scientists confirmed late last week. The floating mass sheared from the Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf in 1986 but became stuck on the floor of the Weddell Sea.
Labeled A23a, the iceberg is roughly 1,500 square miles in size (five times the land area of New York City) and about 1,300 feet thick (taller than the Empire State Building). Satellite imagery suggested the block had begun moving in 2020 before becoming fully adrift in recent months.
As A23a melts, its effect on sea level increase will be minimal—floating objects displace their own weight in water (see 101), with small differences due to salinity—though researchers say it may threaten wildlife if it runs aground at the nearby island of South Georgia.
Read more about the iceberg's trajectory here.
Monday, November 27
Released Hostages
Some news organizations blame Israel for Hamas attacking them and also claim that there were no hostages taken by Hamas.
So, over the last couple of days, Hamas is releasing the hostages they took in exchange for prisoners in Israeli prisons for committing crimes.
Hamas said they will release 50 hostages for 150 prisoners.
These same stations that said Hamas took no hostages are only airing the return of the Hamas prisoners and giving no coverage to the Jews being released because if they did, it would mean they had been lying all along.
Is this the kind of country that you want to live in where the truth is hidden from the general if it disagrees with your idea and/or ideals?
I think not... BUT, this is the kind of country that the USA is turning into and the more this is done, the more the USA becomes divided... not to mention the fact that no one really knows the truth.
New York City
New York's Adult Survivors Act deadline prompts slew of sexual assault suits. The Adult Survivors Act created a one-year window (which expired Friday) for New Yorkers to sue those they claim sexually assaulted them, free from statutes of limitations. Under the act, New York Mayor Eric Adams was accused this week of sexual assault in 1993. Celebrities Jamie Foxx, Axl Rose, and Sean "Diddy" Combs, are also among those who were sued this week. All four have denied the allegations.
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