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Today, I read an article by Kristoffer Ealy arguing that the future belongs to people who work with AI, not people who let AI do the work for them. And I couldn’t help smiling, because that’s exactly how I’ve been operating for the past year. Some folks treat AI like a vending machine: type in … Continue reading Working With AI, not for it.
Every once in a while, I like to keep my humility properly tuned by watching an AI‑generated version of a Richard Feynman physics lecture on YouTube. Nothing reminds me faster that I once flunked Physics and Calculus at Queens College in 1966 — a double‑whammy that cost me my draft deferment and launched my inglorious but memorable … Continue reading Up Up and Away in my Beautiful Balloon
I find it quite hypocritical that the Trump regime wants to have Olympians take Patriot tests, when Trump and his cronies are the ones destroying the Constitution which they swore to defend. The only part they seem to like is the Fifth Amendment. Here’s a photograph I’ve carried with me for decades. Two men in … Continue reading A Moment with a Man Who Spoke Out
My brother Kevin was not athletic as a child. Let me be more precise: the neighborhood girls got picked before him when we chose up teams for softball. And that’s not because the girls were that good. It was because Kevin threw not like a girl, but like an alien, someone who had absolutely no … Continue reading A Baseball Story