Throughout many of my posts, I have mentioned that I have poor eyesight and how it affects me when using different electronic devices. The image to the left may give the impression that only elderly people encounter these problems, but that is not the case. Age is not an indicator of whether someone has poor
So, let’s talk about reading. In today’s electronic society, we now have many different ways to read. And no, hard-copy books, newspapers, magazines, and other physical reading materials haven’t disappeared. If you are anyone who knows me personally, you know that I am an avid reader. And if you have read any of my other
Okay, the last couple of articles I’ve written have gone pretty deep into tin-foil-hat territory. I had fun with them, and I hope you did too. But let’s peel off the tin-foil hats for a while and get back to the real world. I get a lot of my ideas for blog posts from a
Okay, I pretty much feel like crap today and really am not into anything serious. And yes, I was out last night to play. It is what it is. But put on your tin foil hats today. There really isn’t going to be much science in this article, and to be honest, I don’t buy
Interesting concept, eh? I am an avid reader, and one of the fictional book series I read was about this not being the first industrial civilization on Earth. I actually got into a discussion about this on an astronomy site I was part of at the time. It was pretty much stated that we would
A lot of the posts that I make here are driven by an article I saw either on my phone or someplace else. And this one is no different. In the case of this specific post, I decided to go beyond what the article was talking about and include some of the different things I
Nuclear fusion. This has been one of the ultimate goals of nuclear power research for what seems like forever. Every few years, we hear about another breakthrough. Researchers achieve something that has never been done before. An experiment works. A new record is set. Another major obstacle has supposedly been overcome. And then we hear
Yup, the tin foil hat is on. I was reading a fictional action novel about a character in the early 1800s when part of the dialogue turned to the number 13. The characters started going through all the different times throughout history that the number appears. I was actually surprised by how often it came
Chuckle, don’t worry. The image is clickbait. But the question is still valid: If AI becomes self-aware, how will we know? Recently, I came across an article in the news, Signs of Introspection in Large Language Models, which is what brought on this particular post. The article discusses research by Anthropic into whether large language
I spend a lot of time at the senior center where I live (yes, I am old). Somehow, a buddy and I have been identified as the tech support here for the other seniors. Today, a gentleman came in and asked us how to print something from an AI chat on a government website from
