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On the Curious Obsession of Australian Shepherds With Tennis Balls
This week I spent much of my time learning how to build and improve a script for ChatGPT to write fiction. I’m impressed by the results. Judging by the comments of two of my harshest critics, they were also impressed. Four stories, eight favorable comments from people...
Why Does A Five Gigawatt Data Center Need All My City’s Water?
Five gigawatts of power is one of those numbers so enormous it’s impossible to make any sense of. A data center using five gigawatts is simply meaningless numbers to us. Developers, on the other hand, see the potential for huge profits without looking at the realities...
Why Put A TPMS On My Tractor? Blame An Engineering Algorithm
Unless you own an older John Deere tractor with a canopy, don’t expect this to provide detailed instructions on modifying your own tractor. On the other hand, if the title lured you in with the promise of peeking inside an engineer’s brain, welcome aboard. The odds...
Married To An Engineer: Change Is Inevitable, For You
I have an agreement with my Wife, anything I publish involving her gets her approval first. Since this post is a result of a discussion she was having with a friend, not married to an engineer, about metrics and how marriage to me has changed her appreciation of...
Trust but verify. It’s more important than ever in the AI age.
Years ago, I led a team of exceptional engineers supporting production. A newly introduced product was averaging 30 hours to assemble instead of the 5 hours management had confidently estimated during one of their “everything is under control” meetings. We weren’t...
The Ticking Time Bomb Effect Of AI About To Destroy Our Society
Staring at my computer’s display, I’m watching a Python program run exactly to the specifications I wrote before I started coding. No debugging. No mysterious crashes. No three-hour hunts for a missing semicolon buried in line 1400. It just worked. And instead of...
From the Doghouse -It’s all about them
A look at dogs having fun!
Short Stories
With posts like these, ever wonder what kind of fiction I would write?
