Category: Notes

Protocols are something you probably don’t pay much attention to or think about, but they’re something that you use all the time when you’re on the computer. You may have made the decision to try to use a specific protocol over another protocol without even realizing what you were doing. To torture a metaphor you…

With the recent changes (in ownership, policy, and target audience) to various social media sites, as well as other current news, we know some people are looking to switch how they follow and communicate with others online. So let’s talk about some of the newer, recently popularized options to replace your X/Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, or…

Web browsers. Everyone uses them, it’s almost a requirement to be part of society currently. But which one is the right one? That’s a question that can be hard to answer as there are a few well known, and several more less well known, for you to choose from. All web browsers are going to…

In the previous articles we’ve tried to cover the broad strokes of what AI is and how it has and may continue to impact the world, but we really haven’t been able to draw any solid conclusions.  Well, we’ve managed one conclusion, and have been perhaps heavy handed in repetition of it. Simply put, AI…

so where does the technology itself stand in terms of positives? The biggest ones are likely in the field of neurology it seems. Studying the mind is after all studying the mind, regardless of if that mind is originally artificial or natural, every development in AI technology creates valuable insight into our own thinking and…

Examples of uses which might cause these kinds of effects include ‘deepfakes,’ AI generated art reducing the demand for human artists, and algorithms for making business decisions automatically.

“…complex sets of code meant to produce something that mimics the data that’s been fed into it. An elaborate mimic following tens of thousands of carefully managed rules and steps to produce something almost new and unique. ”