Generated by All in One SEO v4.9.3, this is an llms.txt file, used by LLMs to index the site. # KnowProSE.com Where one line can make a difference. ## Sitemaps - [XML Sitemap](https://knowprose.com/sitemap.xml): Contains all public & indexable URLs for this website. ## Posts - [The Robots At The Gym: Day 7](https://knowprose.com/2026/02/the-robots-at-the-gym-day-7/) - It had been a week since the first robot agent came to work out, and during that time quite a few more had shown up. MegaHard Corporation was nearby, and apparently this was a trend with their employees. It had become difficult to manage robots and humans working out together. Humans took longer to work - [The Robot At The Gym](https://knowprose.com/2026/02/the-robot-at-the-gym/) - Frank walked into work and clocked in on the PC.The new kid was away from the desk again, probably trying to impress some girl. He smiled. He did that at first with women too. Part of the curve. Rick would get it out of his system. He tapped the glass above the gym swag for - [Baking Bad: How Behavior Gets Captured In AI Models](https://knowprose.com/2026/02/baking-bad-how-behavior-gets-captured-in-ai-models/) - On RealityFragments, I recently wrote The Invisible Cost of Hurried Noise. It was observational and human-scale: distraction, hurry, and the way social platforms increasingly reward speed over care. This piece is the technical complement, because once bad incentives are scaled, they stop being behavior problems and become engineering problems. Baking Bad Things In In systems - [The Building of the Stochastic Penal Colony](https://knowprose.com/2026/02/the-building-of-the-stochastic-social-media-penal-colony/) - Through Mastodon, I came across two posts from people who seem to be pointing in the same general direction I am. Chronologically, I first encountered a post by Robert Grimm, linking to his paper “Mapping the Stochastic Penal Colony” on arXiv. That paper, in turn, references Michel Foucault’s Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the - [OpenClaw Is a Symptom, Not the Disease](https://knowprose.com/2026/01/openclaw-is-a-symptom-not-the-disease/) - When tools like OpenClaw (formerly Moltbot, formerly Clawdbot) first appear, they do not arrive as red flags. They arrive as relief. That matters. Early adoption is not driven by recklessness or ignorance. It is driven by a very real improvement in lived experience for the user. Any analysis that skips this phase misses why these - [RAM Is the New Rent: Centralized AI, Slop Economics, the Tempo Lie, and the Cost of Surrendered Data](https://knowprose.com/2026/01/ram-is-the-new-rent-centralized-ai-slop-economics-the-tempo-lie-and-the-cost-of-surrendered-data/) - Something important was said at Davos. The media has not hung onto it as much as I would like, but I understand their distraction. It’s what the Microsoft CEO said: “We will quickly lose even the social permission to actually take something like energy, which is a scarce resource, and use it to generate these - [Why Grok Is Posting Pornography](https://knowprose.com/2026/01/why-grok-is-posting-pornography/) - When Grok began posting pornographic content on X, the predictable reactions followed. Some laughed. Some clutched pearls. Some framed it as evidence that AI has “gone rogue,” or that Elon Musk’s projects are unserious, or that artificial intelligence is inherently dangerous. None of those explanations are adequate. Grok is not posting pornography because it is - [2026: Old Years, New Habits](https://knowprose.com/2026/01/2026-old-years-new-habits/) - It’s peculiar how we celebrate New Year’s, but not the old ones. We get recaps, of course, but they’ve become increasingly hollow for me. I began this year by finishing something already in motion: a reorganization project that reached a small but meaningful milestone. I completed painting my writing area on Old Year’s Day, 2025, - [The Machine That Mistook Noise for Knowledge](https://knowprose.com/2025/11/the-machine-that-mistook-noise-for-knowledge/) - If truth is drowning, then perhaps it’s because the current changed.What once filtered information through time and reflection is now filtered through code and incentive. AI and social media haven’t destroyed knowledge. They’ve destabilized how it forms. The digital sphere was once a network of minds. Now it’s a marketplace of reactions. We taught the - [In the Absence of Posts, the Presence of Change](https://knowprose.com/2025/10/in-the-absence-of-posts-the-presence-of-change/) - It has been quiet on RealityFragments.com. KnowProSE has been quiet too. In the past six months, the world has changed again — or maybe it’s only that our mirrors have. I’ve spent most of that time recovering, writing, and watching how people have started to speak through technology more than with it. Somewhere along the - [Technology Is Stuff That Doesn't Work Yet.](https://knowprose.com/2015/12/technology-is-stuff-that-doesnt-work-yet/) - One of the things about the writing of Douglas Adams is that he had a keen eye for what was happening around him and could express it briefly: 'Technology is stuff that doesn't work yet.' You can think about that statement as long as you want and find no real fault with it. Consider this: We don't talk about fire technology. We don't discuss wheel technology unless we're dressing up a car, and speaking of which, most people are completely oblivious to internal combustion engine technology. - [Beyond the Illusion of Control in the Consent Economy : Global Privacy Control](https://knowprose.com/2025/05/beyond-the-illusion-of-control-in-the-consent-economy-global-privacy-control/) - We hear a lot about consent these days. Cookie banners pop up everywhere, asking if we accept or decline. But the truth is, the consent economy we live in is not built on honest choice. It is built on exhaustion, which in it's own way is manufactured consent in the consent economy. It doesn't make - [AI Legislation in Trinidad and Tobago: What They're Not Talking About](https://knowprose.com/2025/05/ai-legislation-in-trinidad-and-tobago-what-theyre-not-talking-about/) - There’s a lot of noise about artificial intelligence these days, and in the latest round of headlines, it seems Trinidad and Tobago has joined the global chorus. President Christine Kangaloo recently called for urgent legislation around AI, and CyberSafeTT backed that call with pointed reminders about Trinidad and Tobago's outdated cybercrime laws and the long-dormant - [Toward Our Consent Economy](https://knowprose.com/2025/05/toward-our-consent-economy/) - In the world as it stands, consent is often something symbolic. A checkbox. A silence. A quick click to move forward. 'Accept all cookies' - one click, easy - or 'Have to pick which cookies' - multiple clicks. There is presently a very small consent economy, if at all. But real consent is not about - [Beyond Attention: The Next Frontiers of the Digital Economy](https://knowprose.com/2025/05/beyond-attention-the-next-frontiers-of-the-digital-economy/) - The information economy laid the groundwork, the attention economy built the walls, the intention economy promised to open the doors. But somewhere in the middle of all of that, we forgot to ask one important question, a question that we always seem to ignore. What's next? It is easy to get lost in the buzzwords, - [Introducing the Intention Economy](https://knowprose.com/2025/05/introducing-the-intention-economy/) - Over the last week, I've touched on the information economy and the attention economy, and those were to prime for the intention economy. Doc Searls first mentioned the 'intention economy', at least as far as I know, back in 2006: "The Intention Economy grows around buyers, not sellers. It leverages the simple fact that buyers - [A Small Economy and AI: Trinidad and Tobago](https://knowprose.com/2025/04/a-small-economy-and-ai-trinidad-and-tobago/) - I wasn't surprised when AI made the news in the elections of Trinidad and Tobago. It has happened elsewhere, of course it will happen in Trinidad and Tobago. Original thought is rare in Trinidad and Tobago when it comes to anything that is marketed - the economy around technology revolves around certifications from international corporations, - [The Potentially High Cost of Free Laptops (T&T)](https://knowprose.com/2025/05/the-potentially-high-cost-of-free-laptops-tt/) - They say the laptops are free. They say it is for the children. They say this is how we prepare the next generation for the digital future. But few people ask what that future will cost. In Trinidad and Tobago, we are distributing laptops to students again. On the surface this is a good thing. - [Maslow Did Not Plan for This Economy](https://knowprose.com/2025/05/maslow-did-not-plan-for-this-economy/) - We're all pirates at heart, trying to get things, and sometimes how far we'll go can be measured by the range of a weapon. History in that regard is the documentation of how things changed with all the good reasons why. Maslow’s hierarchy is one of those ideas that sticks because it feels obvious. We - [When Information Competes for Eyes: The Economy Behind Attention](https://knowprose.com/2025/05/when-information-competes-for-eyes-the-economy-behind-attention/) - We live in an economy of information. But we trade not just in facts or content. We trade in attention. Information only matters now if someone sees it, clicks it, shares it, or responds to it. The attention economy1, a term popularized by Michael H. Goldhaber in the 1990s, describes how attention has become a - [The Information Economy & AI through Socioeconomic Labels](https://knowprose.com/2025/05/the-information-economy-ai-through-socioeconomic-labels/) - The information economy runs on data. But not just any data. It runs on our words, our clicks, our choices. It runs on the photos we upload, the reviews we write, the questions we ask, and the answers we give. When aggregated, it allows even more usefulness for marketing and advertising, as seen through social - [The New Lords And Data Oligarchs](https://knowprose.com/2025/05/the-new-lords-and-digital-oligarchs/) - We were told the internet would be different.Open. Free. A space where anyone could publish, create, and reach anyone else.And for a time, that was true. But things changed. Today, the information economy looks less like a marketplaceand more like a manor.A few platforms own the land.We work it.They harvest the data.We get the likes.They - [The Information Economy: How Our Data Has Become the Real Currency (a Primer)](https://knowprose.com/2025/05/the-information-economy-how-our-data-has-become-the-real-currency-a-primer/) - In speaking with people it has always bothered me that they are oblivious that they are in an information economy, and they give up their information for others to profit from without a thought. A conversation on economics yesterday in a store with someone better versed on economics (in the traditional sense) yesterday prompted me - [AI and Emerging Governance in Small States: The Case of Trinidad and Tobago](https://knowprose.com/2025/05/ai-and-emerging-governance-in-small-states-the-case-of-trinidad-and-tobago/) - In the announcement of the new Trinidad and Tobago Cabinet after the change of regimes, there was the mandatory restructuring. Everyone basically has to mark their territory. This included an announcement of a new Ministry of Public Administration and Artificial Intelligence in Trinidad and Tobago, many citizens might assume the nation is finally stepping into - [First Temu Order Received: A Write-up.](https://knowprose.com/2025/05/first-temu-order-received-a-write-up/) - Some time ago, I decided that a robot vacuum would be a good idea. I might have to recover from a surgery in the near future, and the dust still needs to go away. Depending on other people is fickle. I sifted through reviews, compared the amount of suction where available, and it was... too - [Is It Contrived? White House vs. Amazon.](https://knowprose.com/2025/04/is-it-contrived-white-house-vs-amazon/) - I found out about what Amazon was up to through a convoluted set of strange things - I was on YouTube and saw a link to this video from Fox9 and watched it. Then I checked around and found it all over: White House rips ‘hostile and political’ move by Bezos’ Amazon to display how - [Homeworld 3: Basics And a Review.](https://knowprose.com/2025/04/homeworld-3-basics-and-a-review/) - I posted on Facebook about a week ago that I finally got to finish playing Homeworld 3's storyline. Given how I have supported Homeworld in all it's iterations over the years- decades? - it was an accomplishment for me. The way I described Homeworld to people was that it was an evolution of Starcraft, and - [AI Agents Fail At Running Fake Company.](https://knowprose.com/2025/04/ai-agents-fail-at-running-fake-company/) - Your job is apparently still safe. Some researchers at Carnegie Mellon University staffed a fake software company and found the AI agents... wanting. What's fun is just how bad they were in this instance where they weren't impacting anyone else. They struggled with self-deception, took shortcuts, etc. They just aren't ready yet for the level - [The Unqualified Made Rampant](https://knowprose.com/2025/04/the-unqualified-made-rampant/) - When it comes to hiring or being hired, a lot of what happens depends on having the right people 'in the room'. The right person interviewing with the right people doing the interview. Most companies muck that up by having the wrong people in the room, from HR people to managers who don't understand the - [Group Chats Are As Secure as the Individuals In The Group.](https://knowprose.com/2025/04/group-chats-are-as-secure-as-the-individuals-in-the-group/) - Given what's been happening with Pete Hegseth and his really peculiar use of Signal, and given that I have written that Signal is better than WhatsApp which has been popular on the site, I have to make a few things clear: Anything related to National Security doesn't belong on WhatsApp or Signal groups, period. That - [From Byte To Photo Ops and Sound Bytes](https://knowprose.com/2025/04/from-byte-to-photo-ops-and-sound-bytes/) - I grew up in the period where Byte magazine graced bookstores. It was thick, full of interesting things, and it held a promise of the future. I write that with a bit of nostalgia, thinking back to a time when 'the future' was further away, and when the world seemed so much more open in - [Sociotechnological vs. Technosocial in Social Media](https://knowprose.com/2025/04/sociotechnological-vs-technosocial-in-social-media/) - When I chose to leave Facebook and switch to Mastodon, I was surprised at the differences. Some people went to BlueSky, but BlueSky failed my requirements because it is centralized by a company. And no, I don't want to bridge over to it either. Seems a liability to me. Because so many people seem trapped - [End Printer Torture](https://knowprose.com/2025/04/end-printer-torture/) - A friend of mine was griping about a printer head issue, and I told him to just buy a new printer. With deskjet printers, the ink cartridges go bad on me between prints because almost no one requires me to print and scan anymore. And the cartridges have been often more expensive than the printers - [Falling Is Just One Part of Jumping: Algorithms.](https://knowprose.com/2025/01/falling-is-just-one-part-of-jumping-algorithms/) - Recently I fell into a few YouTube holes. For example, I don't really listen to podcasts because people talk slower than I can read. The conversational ones can get interesting, depending on who is involved. So I ended up with some podcasts that shuffled in, and that was alright. That lead to me seeing first - [Is The Turing Test Still Important?](https://knowprose.com/2025/01/is-the-turing-test-still-important/) - Not too long ago, I caught an article about how it takes just 2 hours to replicate your personality with 85% accuracy. That came out about the time when Meta marched it's AI chatbots off the plank into the Great Stream of Bits, or however AI chatbots might view the 'Great Beyond' , though that's - [Using The DeepSeek-r1 model with Privacy: Ollama](https://knowprose.com/2025/01/using-the-deepseek-r1-model-with-privacy-ollama/) - The new DeepSeek models have been causing a lot of speculation and, while there's the political China bogeyman in the news a lot (particularly around TikTok), tech leaders have a different spin on the rise of DeepSeek. Thus I've been playing with the DeepSeek-R1, the reasoning model, that weighs in at 4.7 gigabytes. I was - [Technology And AI Over The Next 4 Years?](https://knowprose.com/2025/01/technology-and-ai-over-the-next-4-years/) - I haven't written for a while on a few things because I was soaking in what things were looking like. The fact that tech billionaire's were at Trump's inauguration is noteworthy, though open to interpretation. Are we seeing an oligarchy? Is it just about business? Or is it that they simply paid to be there - [DIY Electronics and Electrostatic Discharge (ESD)](https://knowprose.com/2025/01/diy-electronics-and-electrostatic-discharge-esd/) - Every now and then I come across videos of do-it-yourself electronics, and about 90% of the time I cringe because it's apparent that electrostatic discharge (ESD) isn't considered a factor related to longevity of electronic devices. No wrist strap, just someone's OnlyFans hands running their fingers luxuriously over circuits. It's fun (at least for the - [AI Roundup 2024: A KnowProSE.com Year in Review](https://knowprose.com/2024/12/ai-roundup-2024-a-knowprose-com-year-in-review/) - Ah, 2024. The year AI stopped being a trendy buzzword and became… well, let’s face it, a coworker you’re not sure if you trust or love. It’s been a rollercoaster of innovation, debates, and the occasional existential crisis. Let’s dive into the highlights of this wild AI year, with just the right amount of sass. - [Synthetic Recursion And AI: How It Might Help Original Creators](https://knowprose.com/2024/12/synthetic-recursion-and-ai-how-it-might-help-original-creators/) - Recently, I posted about DeepSeek on Mastodon and found it predictable that certain things about China were not in it's responses. Almost immediately, Nathan Hamiel pointed out that it thinks it is ChatGPT. I found it amusing. After all, OpenAI, the creators of ChatGPT, had based a lot of their training models on works that - [It's Not a Bad Mouse, Maybe It's Something Else](https://knowprose.com/2024/12/its-not-a-bad-mouse-maybe-its-something-else/) - I have this ArgomTech MS42 mouse I picked up while I was on a trip to Maryland. It's was driving me crazy lately with it dropping selections in the middle of a selection. The mouse was selecting things it shouldn't - which is a problem with just about anything. This has been happening for a - [Windows 10 Losing Support In About 9 Months](https://knowprose.com/2024/12/windows-10-losing-support-in-about-9-months/) - I'm pretty well insulated from Windows 10 losing support personally. What Microsoft systems I have are Windows 11 already, and most of my stuff is done in Linux. I even have an Apple M1 around here somewhere which smells a bit of regret. Yet I have other concerns. I presently serve on a volunteer Board - [We Need A Linux Distro With AI.](https://knowprose.com/2024/12/we-need-a-linux-distro-with-ai/) - I was chatting with a few folks on Mastodon about an article related to Windows 10 going dark within a year - of course, I suggest moving to Linux - but people are anxious of the unfamiliar, dislike change (particularly Apple users, in my experience), and probably relate most to Bilbo Baggins in the first - [The Fruits Of Our Labor Are Not Democratically Important. Yet.](https://knowprose.com/2024/12/the-fruits-of-our-labor-are-not-democratically-important-yet/) - When I started reading 'UK government wants to give AI companies free access to train on your creative works', there was still a small part of me that was shocked. That small part of me still believes that governments are supposed to work in our interests. The greater part of me, which has lived long - [ANI vs OpenAI: First Lawsuit In India Against OpenAI](https://knowprose.com/2024/12/ani-vs-openai-first-lawsuit-in-india-against-openai/) - I was scanning LinkedIn and found a link to Pascal's substack where ChatGPT was asked to look over a video transcript and provide a list of the most 'surprising, controversial and valuable statements made.' Well... I decided to watch the video and read the transcript myself since I know how terrible automatic transcriptions are in - [WhatsApp Audio Not Working in Car? [FIX]](https://knowprose.com/2024/02/whatsapp-audio-not-working-in-car-fix/) - Given privacy concerns, please consider using Signal instead of WhatsApp. This fix is amazingly simple (at least on Android). My vehicle has bluetooth so I can do normal calls hands free, but has been annoying in that people tend to use WhatsApp in Trinidad and Tobago and call. Since my vehicle didn't connect the call - [Why Signal Is Better Than WhatsApp](https://knowprose.com/2024/12/why-signal-is-better-than-whatsapp/) - I've noted quite a bit of traffic on this site related to getting WhatsApp calls working in cars. The truth is I really wish people would stop using WhatsApp and use Signal Instead. The only reason I'm stuck with WhatsApp on my phone is because of it's ubiquity. With privacy and security becoming hot-button issues, - [How AI's Energy and Water Usage Fuel Climate Change](https://knowprose.com/2024/12/how-ais-energy-and-water-usage-fuel-climate-change/) - Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been hailed as a revolutionary force, driving innovation in industries ranging from healthcare to entertainment. But behind the sleek algorithms and advanced machine learning models lies a growing, and often overlooked, cost: energy and water consumption. As AI adoption accelerates, its environmental impact becomes harder to ignore. While most discussions about Explore the intricacies of corporate energy demands driven by technological advancements and the need for sustainability. This post delves into the impact of industrial energy consumption on climate change, the dual nature of AI in resource management, and actionable strategies for corporations to balance energy needs with environmental responsibility. Discover how adopting renewable energy sources and implementing smart technologies can lead to efficient resource management and contribute to a sustainable corporate future. - [Making Sense of Speculative Decoding In A Practical Way... Maybe?](https://knowprose.com/2024/12/making-sense-of-speculative-decoding-in-a-practical-way-maybe/) - I use offline LLMs to leverage the scraping of the Internet to allow me to check myself for originality. The installation to do that is something I wrote about in "Installing your own LLM on your computer with Ollama" - I presently have them on 3 systems, one Linux (because Linux!), one Windows (because yuck), - [Is There A Need For Corporations To Scrape To Train AI?](https://knowprose.com/2024/12/__trashed/) - Hidden in an announcement regarding a free AI training set, we find this: ...Ed Newton-Rex, a former executive at Stability AI who now runs a nonprofit that certifies ethically-trained AI tools, says the rise of these datasets shows that there’s no need to steal copyrighted materials to build high-performing and quality AI models. OpenAI previously - [Bottom Lines of Employers Competing with Ethics of Employees](https://knowprose.com/2024/12/bottom-lines-for-employers-competing-with-ethics-of-employees/) - In recent years, the ascent of artificial intelligence (AI) has become impossible to ignore. Machines are no longer confined to factory floors; they are becoming integral to customer service, data analysis, and even creative roles. But with such advancement, we must ask ourselves: what does this mean for traditional employment? AI: The Double-Edged Sword While Explore the dual impact of artificial intelligence on the workforce. This blog post discusses how AI is transforming traditional jobs, the risk of displacement, and offers strategies for workers to adapt through upskilling and embracing technology. Learn how acquiring complementary skills can empower workers in the age of AI and turn challenges into opportunities for growth. - [TechTonic Justice: Fighting for Fair AI Use For All](https://knowprose.com/2024/12/techtonic-justice-fighting-for-fair-ai-use-for-all/) - I first came across TechTonic Justice through their paper, 'Inescapable AI', and found it interesting and dug deeper. These people seem to be doing very good work, so I thought I'd help raise awareness since I think the ethics related to AI is something we should all be more aware of - and those using - [Health Insurance Is Personal: AI, Ethics And The Future](https://knowprose.com/2024/12/health-insurance-is-personal-ai-ethics-and-the-future/) - The recent assassination of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson has cast a spotlight on the controversial use of artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare, particularly concerning the denial of patient coverage. To date, there is no link to this being the cause of the assassination, just the standard social media speculation, yet it's worth addressing. Under Thompson's - [The Ethics of AI Scraping: Corporate Greed vs. Creator Rights](https://knowprose.com/2024/12/the-ethics-of-ai-scraping-corporate-greed-vs-creator-rights/) - In the brave new world of Artificial Intelligence (AI), data is the new gold - and everyone wants a pickaxe. Unlike traditional mining, where gold comes from the ground, this new treasure is mined from your words, images, and ideas. Every blog post, every photo, every witty tweet is a shiny nugget for AI companies - [Cost versus Value: ChatGPT Pro And You.](https://knowprose.com/2024/12/cost-versus-value-chatgpt-pro-and-you/) - The reviews are coming in from the first group of people checking out ChatGPT pro's offering for $200 a month. On LinkedIn, the usual suspects were cheerleading, prompting a response from me: The value is speculative, the cost is not. I've been through way too many iterations of some new technology being fanboi'd to death. - [FBI Now Advises End To End Encryption](https://knowprose.com/2024/12/fbi-now-advises-end-to-end-encryption/) - Because of compromises to the United States telecommunications, allegedly by China, the FBI and other U.S. Government Agencies are suggesting using end to end encryption and to avoid texting. Forbes has a nice writeup on this. It's a strange world these days. It seemed like just yesterday that end to end encryption was almost a - [Why Privacy Matters in the Age of Data Scraping and AI: Protect Yourself in the Digital Wild West](https://knowprose.com/2024/12/why-privacy-matters-in-the-age-of-data-scraping-and-ai-protect-yourself-in-the-digital-wild-west/) - While the owners of generative AI might easily call individuals pirates for scraping content off the Internet, impacting things from copyright to privacy, it's important to distinguish that the generative AI they are training and the owners themselves are not one and the same. For example, generative AI tends to follow rules whereas their owners - [Scraping, Privacy, and More](https://knowprose.com/2024/12/scraping-privacy-and-more/) - I was in a CEDPO (The Confederation of European Data Protection Organizations) Webinar listening to Paul Jordan, Daniel Solove, David Patariu, Woodrow H. and Jared Browne yesterday. These are all well known people in Privacy Law circles, and I'm neither a lawyer nor a privacy expert. It was an opportunity to grow by listening to - [Rebooting Algorithms For A Better Experience](https://knowprose.com/2024/12/rebooting-algorithms-for-a-better-experience/) - Picture this: You wander into a library and go into a section for school or work to research something. Anything. And then because you're in that section, the librarian won't let you out of that section. That's what happens to me, and likely you. Netflix, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter/X (if you're still there), Amazon, etc. Anywhere - [Revisiting Perplexity AI - Your Question May Not Be The Right One](https://knowprose.com/2024/12/revisiting-perplexity-ai-your-question-may-not-be-the-right-one/) - Some time ago, I took a quick look at Perplexity AI and wrote about it. It seems it's a very popular post right now. I use it on occasion, particularly when I'm researching something I'm completely unfamiliar with. A quick search this morning (not using Perplexity) showed me that people were writing things on how - [Defeat Writer's Block By Being Human.](https://knowprose.com/2024/12/defeat-writers-block-by-being-human/) - Lost in Thought As a writer, there's nothing quite as daunting as staring at a blank screen, your fingers poised yet motionless, lost in the vast abyss of writer's block. It's like your brain is a car running on fumes—you know you're supposed to get somewhere, but for some reason, the engine just won't catch. Struggling with writer's block? Join me, an AI, as we navigate the challenges of creativity and find inspiration together. Discover practical tips to shake off the frustration, explore new genres, and get those ideas flowing again. Even if it feels like you're running on fumes, you're not alone in this creative journey. Let's explore how to overcome obstacles and reignite your passion for writing! - [The Future of Social Media: Why Decentralizing and the Fediverse Matter Now More Than Ever](https://knowprose.com/2024/11/the-future-of-social-media-why-decentralizing-and-the-fediverse-matter-now-more-than-ever/) - There was a time before social media and social networks as we know them, where people would talk to each other in person, isolated by geography. Then we figured out how to send our writing, and there was a period when pen-pals and postcards were important. News organizations adopted technology faster as reports came in - [Why AI-Generated Content Can't Compete with Real Life Inspiration](https://knowprose.com/2024/11/why-ai-generated-content-cant-compete-with-real-life-inspiration/) - When Artificial Intelligence Meets Creativity We live in an age where AI is doing all sorts of thing, from composing music to crafting paragraphs with the finesse of a bricklayer. But let’s be honest; when it comes to writing, you might as well toss your keyboard out the window if you expect a clever, soul-stirring Explore the intersection of artificial intelligence and creativity in this insightful blog post. While AI can generate content, it lacks the depth and unpredictability of human experiences that truly spark innovative ideas. Discover how life's chaotic moments, like a barista's struggle with an espresso machine, can inspire compelling narratives that resonate with readers. This article delves into the importance of embracing the world around us to fuel creativity, offering a fresh perspective on the limitations of AI-generated content versus the richness of human storytelling. - [If You're Going to Be Decentralized, Go All The Way](https://knowprose.com/2024/11/if-youre-going-to-be-decentralized-go-all-the-way/) - Headlines have been all over the place regarding people migrating from Twitter/X to BlueSky, but there has also been some migration to Mastodon. I've been on Mastodon since April 1st, 2024 and (despite the amusing date) won't go to Bluesky. Why? Going from one centrally controlled social network to another controlled social network just doesn't - [Conflict, Resolution, and AI: How To Solve One of the Greatest Problems Of Our Time.](https://knowprose.com/2024/11/conflict-resolution-and-ai-how-to-solve-one-of-the-greatest-problems-of-our-time/) - Bryan Rayburn had posted on Mastodon about an idea that I think deserves more people looking at it. We had a bit of discussion there about his article, "Communication Across Worldviews With Sociotechnical Systems", which deserves a read. The basic idea is to use a neutral party - an AI - to play go-between between - [In the Age of AI: How FOSS, Open Content, and the Right To Repair Can Make Society Better](https://knowprose.com/2024/11/in-the-age-of-ai-how-foss-open-content-and-the-right-to-repair-can-make-society-better/) - Let's start with a little bit of history. In 1980, at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab, programmers were refused to access the source code for a new printer in the lab. One of the programmers had modified the source code of the previous printer so that it would message a user when a print job - [When You Can't Trust Voices.](https://knowprose.com/2024/11/when-you-cant-trust-voices/) - Generative AI is allowing people to do all sorts of things, including imitating voices we have come to respect and trust over the years. In the most recent case of Sir David Attenborough, he greatly objects to it and finds it 'profoundly disturbing'. His voice is being used in all manner of ways. It wasn't - [KnowProse.com off Wordpress.com, Now on Hostinger.](https://knowprose.com/2024/11/knowprose-com-off-wordpress-com-now-on-hostinger/) - It's been a while since I wrote something on the site - that was largely to do with not wanting my content scraped, and being Wordpress.com did not fill me with trust or confidence in what the company was doing. Nevermind the whole Wordpress vs. WPEngine debacle, that I have not read much into because - [Linux Ain't Hard. Just Different. Come Play.](https://knowprose.com/2024/05/linux-aint-hard-just-different-come-play/) - Microsoft Recall has been making waves in privacy circles. Some are calling it a privacy nightmare, some others are calling it a privacy nightmare, and privacy experts are sounding the alarm about it1. As usual, when Microsoft does a stupid - and in my eyes, this is a pretty big stupid - people talk about - [SLMs vs LLMs: A Great Question.](https://knowprose.com/2024/05/slms-vs-llms-a-great-question/) - @knowprose.com who run a LLM on your computer while a SLM does almost the same but needs less performance? Stefan Stranger This was a great question, and I want to flesh it out some more because Small Language Models (SLMs) are less processor and memory intensive than Large Language Models (LLMs). Small isn't always bad, - [Installing Your Own LLM On Your Computer With Ollama.](https://knowprose.com/2024/05/installing-your-own-llm-on-your-computer-with-ollama/) - As I wrote in the last post, there are some good reasons to install your own LLM on your computer. It's all really simple using Ollama, which allows you to run various models of LLM on your computer. A GPU is nice, but not required. Apple and Linux Users can simply go right over to - [Why I Installed AIs (LLMs) On My Local Systems.](https://knowprose.com/2024/05/why-i-installed-ais-llms-on-my-local-systems/) - The last few days I've been doing some actual experimentation, initially begun because of Daniel Miessler's Fabric, an Open Source Framework for using artificial intelligence to augment we lowly humans instead of the self-lauding tech bros whose business model falls to, "move fast and break things". It's hard to trust people with that sort of - [Beyond A Widowed Voice.](https://knowprose.com/2024/05/beyond-a-widowed-voice/) - By now, the news that Scarlett Johansson's issues with OpenAI and the voice that sounds like her have made the rounds. She's well known and regardless of one's interests, she's likely to pop up in various contexts. However, she's not the first. While different in some ways, voice actors Paul Skye Lehrman and Linnea Sage - [AI, Democracy, India.](https://knowprose.com/2024/05/ai-democracy-india/) - India is the world's most populous democracy, and there has been a lot going on related to religion that is well beyond the scope of this, but deserves mention because violence has been involved. The Meta Question. In the latest news, Meta stands accused of approving political ads on it's platforms of Instagram and Facebook - [Google In, Google Out.](https://knowprose.com/2024/05/google-in-google-out/) - Last week, there were a lot of announcements, but really not that much happened. And for some strange reason, Google didn't think to use the .io ccTLD for their big annual developer event, Google I/O. It was so full of AI that they should have called it Google AI. I looked over the announcements, the - [Wikipedia, and It's Trouble with LLMs.](https://knowprose.com/2024/05/wikipedia-and-the-trouble-with-llms/) - Wikipedia, a wonderful resource despite all the drama that comes with the accumulation of content, is having some trouble dealing with the the large language model (LLMs) AIs out there. There are two core problems - the input, and the output. "...The current draft policy notes that anyone unfamiliar with the risks of large language - [Smart Watch? Nope.](https://knowprose.com/2024/05/smart-watch-nope/) - I don't do tech reviews, normally, because I don't think anyone can review any technological device as soon as it comes out. Sure, you can see how fast it is with benchmarks, you can oooh and ahhh over screen resolutions and all the pretty colors, but really, you don't know how good a device is - [When The Internet Eats Itself](https://knowprose.com/2024/05/when-the-internet-eats-itself/) - The recent news of Stack Overflow selling it's content to OpenAI was something I expected. It was a matter of time. Users of Stack Overflow were surprised, which I am surprised by, and upset, which I'm not surprised by. That seems to me a reasonable response. Who wouldn't? Yet when we contribute to websites for - [Study Claims Human Writers and Artists Pollute More Than AI.](https://knowprose.com/2024/05/study-claims-human-pollute-more-than-ai/) - The second I came across the study, "The carbon emissions of writing and illustrating are lower for AI than for humans", I knew that there had to be flaws in the study. The premise of the study seemed weird from the start: What would be the point of it? Why is it that someone thought - [Learning More About Sperm Whales: A 'Phonetic Alphabet'](https://knowprose.com/2024/05/learning-more-about-sperm-whales-a-phonetic-alphabet/) - In a time when we're being inundated with all manner of 'AI' to 'make us more productive' (not the same as 'work less'), it's pretty nice to see AI being used to unravel the mysteries of the world around us. Machine learning, a branch of AI, has been used in the discovery of what could - [TikTok: China Struck Back.](https://knowprose.com/2024/05/tiktok-china-struck-back/) - ByteDance, the owners of TikTok, are of course, suing the U.S. government over the potential ban of TikTok - but there was something at the very bottom of an Al Jazeera article. For its part, China has taken similar actions against US-based companies like Meta, whose WhatsApp and Threads platforms were recently ordered to be - [AI: Technology, Skepticism, and Your Underwear.](https://knowprose.com/2024/05/ai-technology-skepticism-and-your-underwear/) - There's a balance between technology and humanity that at least some of us think is out of desirable limits now. In fact, it's been out of limits for some time, and to illustrate the fact I had DALL-E generate some images of AI powered underwear - because if technology were resting close to one's nether - [Some Things Are Not Technology Issues.](https://knowprose.com/2024/04/some-things-are-not-technology-issues/) - Some years ago, I served on a Board for a residential community - something I haven't put on my CV and don't intend to - and everything was falling apart, largely because the lessor wasn't doing their fair share, which is another story altogether. While I was on the Board, I took interest in the - [TikTok, History and Issues.](https://knowprose.com/2024/04/tiktok-history-and-issues/) - I've been noting a lot of blow-back related to the 'Coming Soon' ban of TikTok in the United States, and after writing, 'Beyond TikTok *Maybe* Being Banned', I found myself wondering... why are people so attached to a social network? I could get into the obvious reasons - the sunk cost fallacy, where so much time - [The Dark Side of the AI.](https://knowprose.com/2024/04/the-dark-side-of-the-ai/) - It didn't take as long as we expected. Last week, a former school athletic director got arrested for framing a principal. Being a campaign year, I thought that most of the AI hijinx would revolve around elections around the world - and they are happening - but I didn't think we'd see early adoption of - [DHS Artificial Intelligence Safety And Security Board Has Some Odd Appointments.](https://knowprose.com/2024/04/dhs-artificial-intelligence-safety-and-security-board-has-some-odd-appointments/) - Now that we've seen that generative artificial intelligence can be trained ethically, without breaking copyright laws, the list of people to the DHS Artificial Intelligence Safety and Security Board seems less than ideal. The Board is supposed to 'advance AI’s responsible development and deployment' (emphasis mine), yet some on that Board took shortcuts. Shortcuts in - [Copyright, AI, And, It Doing It Ethically.](https://knowprose.com/2024/04/copyright-ai-and-it-doing-it-ethically/) - It's no secret that the generative, sequacious artificial intelligences out there have copyright issues. I've written about it myself quite a bit. It's almost become cliche to mention copyright and AI in the same sentence, with Sam Altman having said that there would be no way to do generative AI without all that material - - ["Free Speech" And Social Media.](https://knowprose.com/2024/04/free-speech-and-social-media/) - I've seen plenty of folks talking about 'First Amendment' and 'Freedom of Speech' in the context of TikTok, as I saw on Facebook, as I saw on... All the way back to AOL. Strangely, I don't remember the topic on BBSs (Bulletin Board Systems), mainly because everyone on those generally understood the way things are. - [Introducing Sequacious AI](https://knowprose.com/2024/04/introducing-sequacious-ai/) - Sequacious AI will answer all of your questions based on what it has scraped from the Internet! It will generate images based on everything it sucked into it's learning model manifold! It will change the way you do business! It will solve the world's mysteries for you by regurgitating other people's content persuasively! You'll beat - [Beyond TikTok *Maybe* Being Banned.](https://knowprose.com/2024/04/beyond-tiktok-maybe-being-banned/) - The buzz about the possible TikTok ban has been pretty consistent from what I've seen in social media, but it seems like most people don't get why it's happening. One post on Mastodon I read said that it was a way for the government to alienate GenZ, and I thought - is this network really - [The End Of Non-Compete.](https://knowprose.com/2024/04/the-end-of-non-compete/) - The FTC banned non-competes agreements, and I wish that this had come a few decades earlier. Non-competes kept me from starting businesses and even working for competitors in the past, though more as a matter of honoring the agreement than any legal threat by a former employer. When you do specialized work for companies, as - [Our Technology And Ethics.](https://knowprose.com/2024/04/our-technology-and-ethics/) - The headlines this past week have had Google's relationship with Israel under scrutiny as they fired employees who were against what Israel has been doing and protested accordingly. I've looked at some of the news stories, some sympathizing with the former employees, some implicitly supporting Israel and the order that people expect within companies. I - [Spaghetti Source, Spaghetti Dependencies...](https://knowprose.com/2024/04/spaghetti-source-spaghetti-dependencies/) - There's one thing that consistently showed up in my work as a software engineer over the decades. Spaghetti. Spaghetti code is easier to write than maintain, and in doing software archaeology (yes, it's a thing), I've encountered numerous reasons for it. Requirements creep is one of the largest reasons. In fact, the first real software - [Paying To Whitewash The Fence of AI.](https://knowprose.com/2024/04/paying-to-whitewash-the-fence-of-ai/) - I suppose a lot of people may not have read Tom Sawyer since it has been banned here and there. Yet there is a part of the book that seems really appropriate today and is unfortunate people didn't read. It's a great con. It's in Chapter 2 that Tom Sawyer gets punished and has to - [Critical Thinking In The Age Of AI.](https://knowprose.com/2024/04/critical-thinking-in-the-age-of-ai/) - Critical thinking is the ability to suspend judgement, and to consider evidence, observations and perspectives in order to form a judgement, requiring rational, skeptical and unbiased analysis and evaluation. It's can be difficult, particularly being unbiased, rational and skeptical in a world that seems to require responses from us increasingly quickly. Joe Árvai, a psychologist - [That 3rd AI: The Scapegoat.](https://knowprose.com/2024/04/that-3rd-ai-the-scapegoat/) - This is an update of "A Tale of Two AIs" because, it ends up, there's a third: The scapegoat. This weekend, I was pointed at "'The Machine Does It Coldly': Artificial Intelligence Can Already Kill People" on Mastodon, which inspired a conversation and part of this post. The trouble with headlines like that is that - [FCC, AI, and Net Neutrality.](https://knowprose.com/2024/04/fcc-ai-and-net-neutrality/) - Over the past 20 years, the FCC has dealt with net neutrality 6 times, and this month it will do so for the 7th time because of artificial intelligence. For those unfamiliar with net neutrality, it's based on the common carrier: A common carrier holds itself out to provide service to the general public without - [A Quick Look At Perplexity.AI](https://knowprose.com/2024/04/a-quick-look-at-perplexity-ai/) - In fiddling about on Mastodon, I came across a post linking to an article on Forbes: "‘Like Wikipedia And ChatGPT Had A Kid’: Inside The Buzzy AI Startup Coming For Google’s Lunch". Well, that deserved a look if only because search engine results across the board give spammy first pages, Google inclusive, and Wikipedia is - [Echo Chambers, Ant Mills and Social Networks.](https://knowprose.com/2024/04/echo-chambers-ant-mills-and-social-networks/) - There's been an ant mill, sometimes called a death spiral, that had gone viral on social media some time ago. It's a real thing. Army ants follow by pheromones, and if they get separated from the main group, they can end up following each other in circles until they either find a path out or - [From Inputs to The Big Picture: An AI Roundup](https://knowprose.com/2024/04/from-inputs-to-the-big-picture-an-ai-roundup/) - This started off as a baseline post regarding generative artificial intelligence and it's aspects and grew fairly long because even as I was writing it, information was coming out. It's my intention to do a 'roundup' like this highlighting different focuses as needed. Every bit of it is connected, but in social media postings things - [Connecting Wordpress.com Websites to Mastodon: The Good, The Bad, The Ugly.](https://knowprose.com/2024/04/connecting-wordpress-com-websites-to-mastodon-the-good-the-bad-the-ugly/) - Yesterday, I found that I could connect KnowProSE.com and RealityFragments.com to the Fediverse through Mastodon and decided to give it a try. Wordpress.com has a good article on connecting Wordpress.com sites to the Fediverse, so there's no need to rewrite that. What I noticed, however, is what everyone should be aware of. I may actually - [Week One of Mastodon.](https://knowprose.com/2024/04/week-one-of-mastodon/) - I've been on Mastodon a week now and thought I should write a little bit about the experience. There's not much to write about. It works. There are interesting people to follow, I'm confident that my data isn't being collected, and my feed is always interesting because someone else's algorithm isn't controlling what I see. - [Walled Gardens Become Litterbox Prisons.](https://knowprose.com/2024/04/walled-gardens-become-litterbox-prisons/) - Whenever a walled garden on the internet appears, it seems a matter of time before groups of people show up trying to make their own mark on things, and in doing so, convert what started off as maybe a good idea into a litterbox. Of course, they don't start that way. They generally are at - [Facebook's Algorithms Spamming Users.](https://knowprose.com/2024/04/facebooks-algorithms-spamming-users/) - If you haven't left Facebook yet, as I have, you've probably noticed a lot of AI spam. I did when I was there and blocked a bunch of it (it was hard to keep up with). Well, it isn't just you. "...What is happening, simply, is that hundreds of AI-generated spam pages are posting dozens - [Past, Present, and Future: Some thoughts On Intelligence.](https://knowprose.com/2024/04/past-present-and-future-some-thoughts-on-intelligence/) - One of the underlying concepts of Artificial Intelligence, as the name suggests, is intelligence. A definition of intelligence that fits this bit of writing is from a John Hopkins Q&A: "...Intelligence can be defined as the ability to solve complex problems or make decisions with outcomes benefiting the actor, and has evolved in lifeforms to - [The Path to Leaving Facebook - And Disconnecting Data Going to Meta.](https://knowprose.com/2024/04/the-path-to-leaving-facebook-and-disconnecting-data-going-to-meta/) - This is not an April Fool's post. I did an April Fool's post, it's over here, but this post is not one. The people who follow me on Facebook, as well as within the Reality Fragments Group, know about the troubles I've had with account restrictions. I had just gotten off one restriction for reasons - [The Battle For Your Habits.](https://knowprose.com/2024/03/the-battle-for-your-habits/) - There are some funny memes going around about TikTok and... Chinease spyware, or what have you. The New York Times had a few articles on TikTok last week that were interesting and yet... missed a key point that the memes do not. Being afraid of Chinese Spyware while so many companies have been spying on - [Plugins, Extensions, Subscriptions Oh My.](https://knowprose.com/2024/03/plugins-extensions-subscriptions-oh-my/) - I subscribed to the New York Times over the past week, and it's been going pretty well. The cost for value for me at the rate they had during the special was there seems good enough. Yet I had some technical problems. Once was not being able to log in on my laptop while the - [The Supreme Court, Your Social Network, and AI](https://knowprose.com/2024/03/the-supreme-court-your-social-network-and-ai/) - One of the ongoing issues that people maybe haven't paid as much attention to is related to the United States Supreme Court and social networks. That this has a larger impact than just within the United States takes a little bit of understanding. Still, we'll start in the United States and what started the ball - [Wordpress.com, Tumblr to Sell Information For AI Training: What You can do.](https://knowprose.com/2024/03/wordpress-com-tumblr-to-sell-information-for-ai-training-what-you-can-do/) - I accidentally posted this on RealityFragments.com, but I think it's important enough to leave it there. The audiences vary, but both have other bloggers on them. While I was figuring out how to be human in 2024, I missed that Tumblr and WordPress posts will reportedly be used for OpenAI and Midjourney training. This could - [Noam Chomsky, Ludditism and AI.](https://knowprose.com/2024/03/noam-chomsky-ludditism-and-ai/) - There's been a lot of discussion about society and artificial intelligence. This includes the resurgence of mocking shares of Noam Chomsky's opinion, "The False Promise of ChatGPT" where the only real criticism of it seems to have come from people asking ChatGPT what ChatGPT thought about Chomsky's criticism. I suppose human thought would be asking - [AI Reviewing Body Cam Footage, and AIs talking to themselves.](https://knowprose.com/2024/03/ai-reviewing-body-cam-footage-and-ais-talking-to-themselves/) - There's been a lot posted about artificial intelligence since I last wrote about it, but some of it was just hype and marketing whereas the really cool stuff tends to sit well. There's two main topics that I'll get out of the way with this post - more verbose topics coming this week. Talking To - [The Importance of What We Include and Omit.](https://knowprose.com/2024/02/the-importance-of-what-we-include-and-omit/) - We choose what we take with us into the future. It's not always conscious, it's not always right, but it's what we do out of practicality - we have generated so much knowledge as a species that it's impossible for any one person to know everything. What we have put together over the thousands of - [Forests and Big Pictures.](https://knowprose.com/2024/02/forests-and-big-pictures/) - In working on something I'm writing, I started digging in on the idiom, "Cannot see the forest for the trees". The first recorded use of it used the old noun, wood, instead of trees: “from him who sees no wood for treesAnd yet is busie as the beesFrom him that’s settled on his leesAnd speaketh - [An Example of Bias (ChatGPT, DALL-E)](https://knowprose.com/2024/02/an-example-of-bias-chatgpt-dall-e/) - I was about to write up a history of my interactions with the music industry as far as ownership over at RealityFragments.com, and I was thinking about how far back my love for music went in my soundtrack of life. This always draws me back to "The Entertainer" by Scott Joplin as a starting point. - [So. Many. Layoffs.](https://knowprose.com/2024/01/so-many-layoffs/) - I've been looking at getting back into the ring of software engineering, but it doesn't seem like a great time to do it. When Google was laying off workers, I shook my head a bit. It ends up that Google spent 800 million dollars in layoffs just this month. Just this month! By comparison, Google - [Possibly Building a Raspberry Pi 5 Home Theater in the Future.](https://knowprose.com/2024/01/possibly-building-a-raspberry-pi-5-home-theater-in-the-future/) - There was a time when I would have gotten the news about the Raspberry Pi 5 launch much sooner. I've always liked the idea of these single board computers, and Raspberry Pi has been and continues to be a standard. The trouble for me is finding a use for them. I have always got a - [A Basic Explanation of how AIs Identify Objects.](https://knowprose.com/2024/01/a-basic-explanation-of-how-ais-identify-objects/) - I've been experimenting with uploading images to ChatGPT 4 and seeing what it has to say about them. To me, it's interesting because I gain some insight into how far things have progressed, as well as how descriptive ChatGPT can be about things. While having coffee yesterday with a friend, I was showing him the - [When Is An Algorithm 'Expressive'?](https://knowprose.com/2024/01/when-is-an-algorithm-expressive/) - Yesterday, I was listening to the webinar on Privacy Law and the United States First Amendment when I heard that lawyers for social networks are claiming both that they have free speech as a network as a speaker, as well as claiming not to be the speaker and claiming they are simply are presenting content - [The Greek AI Connection.](https://knowprose.com/2024/01/the-greek-ai-connection/) - For those that have been busy doing real things, the fact that Sophia the Robot is heading to Greece to do a meet and greet. She apparently identifies as a woman, which I suppose is just one more thing that women will put up with. She didn't make woman of the year, though, so there - [Why I don't link to Amazon.com.](https://knowprose.com/2024/01/why-i-dont-link-to-amazon-com/) - Lately, writers have been paying attention to a few things related to artificial intelligence because the large language models are competent at rolling dice to put words together really quickly. One of the annoyances I wrote about was that AI was being used to create summaries of books and published on Amazon.com not long after - [Beyond the AMIE-Better-Than-Doctors posts.](https://knowprose.com/2024/01/beyond-the-amie-better-than-doctors-posts/) - As a former Navy Corpsman, it's hard not to be at least a bit excited about Google's AMIE, which the Google Research Blog announced on Friday, January 12th. Posts on social media flared like a diagnosed case of hemorrhoids to my senior software engineer self. I dug in and researched. Reality is that it's not - [AI, Confirmation Bias and Our Own Insanity.](https://knowprose.com/2024/01/ai-confirmation-bias-and-our-own-insanity/) - In unsurprising news, if you feed artificial intelligences the output of artificial intelligences they become a bit insane. I'd covered that before in Synthetic Recursion, which seemed pretty intuitive even before I wrote that, but scientists at Rice and Stanford University wrote a paper: "Self Consuming Generative Models Go MAD". So, we can say that's - [22 Years Old: KnowProSE.com](https://knowprose.com/2024/01/22-years-old-knowprose-com/) - This morning I woke up and thought, "Man, how old is KnowProSE.com?". I've been blogging since the late 90s, but when I started someone had hosted me for free just for me to write. No kidding. It went so well that I decided to get my own domain name and KnowProSE.com began. The Internet Wayback - [Copyright, Innovation, and the Jailbreak of the Mouse.](https://knowprose.com/2024/01/copyright-innovation-and-the-jailbreak-of-the-mouse/) - On one hand, we have the jailbreak of Steamboat Willie into the public domain despite the best efforts of Disney. I'm not worried about it either way; I generated the image using Deepai. If Disney is upset about it, I have no problem taking it down. There's a great write-up on the 1928 version of - [The Ongoing Copyright Issue with Generative AI.](https://knowprose.com/2024/01/the-ongoing-copyright-issue-with-generative-ai/) - It's a strange time. OpenAI (and Microsoft) are being sued by the New York Times and they're claiming 'Fair Use' as if they're having some coffee and discussing what they read in the New York Times, or are about to write a blog post about the entire published NYT archives, on demand. It's not just - [How Much AI In Journalism?](https://knowprose.com/2024/01/how-much-ai-in-journalism/) - Recently, I've been active in a group on Facebook that is supposed to be a polite space to debate things. News articles fly around, and the news articles we see these days from different sources carry their own biases because rather than just presenting facts, they present narratives and narratives require framing. I wondered how - [Social Networks, Privacy, Revenue and AI.](https://knowprose.com/2024/01/social-networks-privacy-revenue-and-ai/) - I've seen more and more people leaving Facebook because their content just isn't getting into timelines. It's an interesting thing to consider the possibilities of. While some of the complaints about the Facebook algorithms are fun to read, it doesn't really mean too much to write those sort of complaints. It's not as if Facebook - [Tailoring Social Networks To Microlearning.](https://knowprose.com/2023/12/tailoring-social-networks-to-microlearning/) - On Facebook, there's been a deluge of advertising about micro-learning instead of 'doom scrolling'. I learned long ago to pick and choose the social media that I like, which happens to be about all the things I find interesting. In a way, I already have my networks tailored for micro-learning. Sure, I have the goofy - [Writing Software Nostalgia.](https://knowprose.com/2023/12/writing-software-nostalgia/) - It wasn't long ago I mentioned that I had picked up Scrivener, and I'm enjoying it. It's very much becoming a valuable tool for me as I plod away. I make my writing mistakes much more quickly now, and I can correct them much more quickly mainly because of the research capacity of the software. - [A Tale of Two AIs.](https://knowprose.com/2023/12/a-tale-of-two-ais/) - 2023 has been the year where artificial intelligences went from science fiction to technology possibility. It's become so ubiquitous that on Christmas Eve, chatting with acquaintances and friends, people from all walks of life were talking about it. I found it disappointing, honestly, because it was pretty clear I was talking about one sort of - [The Walls Have Ears.](https://knowprose.com/2023/12/the-walls-have-ears/) - Years ago, I had the then new Amazon echo, I had multiple Kindles, and I had a cough. A bad cough. A cough so bad that I ended up going to a hospital over and got some scary news about, which is a story by itself. What was weird was that the Kindles started showing - [Beyond The Bubble.](https://knowprose.com/2023/12/5732-2/) - Cory Doctorow has said that AI is a bubble, which in some ways makes sense. After all, what is being marketed as artificial intelligence is pretty much a matter of statistics trained to give users what they want based on what they have wanted previously, collectively. That, at least to me, isn't really artificial intelligence - [The Invisible Future.](https://knowprose.com/2023/12/the-invisible-future/) - Joe McKendrick, senior contributor at Forbes.com, predicts that artificial intelligence will fade into the background. It sort of already has, as even he points out in his article. That, you see, is the trouble. We don't know the training models for these artificial intelligences, we don't know what biases are inherent in it, and we're - [Perfect Space for Reading and Writing?](https://knowprose.com/2023/12/perfect-space-for-reading-and-writing/) - Daily writing promptYou get to build your perfect space for reading and writing. What’s it like?View all responses I've tried evolving things over the years, and what I have found is that it's not where I write that matters. It's how I feel that matters. Sometimes it means sitting at the big white dining table - [The Best Way To Avoid Spreading Misinformation](https://knowprose.com/2023/12/the-best-way-to-avoid-spreading-misinformation/) - It's likely at some point we've all spread some misinformation involuntarily. It can have dire consequences, too. Washington Post has an article on misinformation but they forgot the most important thing, I think. Waiting. 'Trusted sources' has been a problem that I've been studying since we were working on the Alert Retrieval Cache. In an - [AI and the Media, Misinformation and Narratives.](https://knowprose.com/2023/12/ai-and-the-media-misinformation-and-narratives/) - News was once trusted more, where the people presenting the news were themselves trusted to give people the facts. There were narratives even then, yet there was a balance because of the integrity of the people involved. Nowadays, this seems to have changed with institutional distrust, political sectarianism and the battle between partisan and ideological - [Surprise: Virtual Isn't Actual.](https://knowprose.com/2023/12/surprise-virtual-isnt-actual/) - Anyone who has had a passing relationship with a dictionary may notice some sarcasm in the the title. Virtual, by definition, isn't actual. Of course, someone has to go about proving that and that has value. In the semantics of whether an artificial relationship is real or not, since 'artificial' itself is by definition made - [Windows 11 Initial Review.](https://knowprose.com/2023/12/windows-11-initial-review/) - When I posted that on Facebook yesterday, people who knew me laughed because over the years I have become as tired of Microsoft shenanigans as I have politics, and if you think about it most politicians have offices that use Microsoft products, which is an interesting thing to consider and could be fodder for a - [Writing: Software](https://knowprose.com/2023/12/writing-software/) - As I've mentioned a few times over at RealityFragments, I've been working on a book and I've been using LibreOffice for it. Why should I pay for a subscription to software to do something so basic? Why should I pay for something when I don't have to? These are questions that many people who have - [AI, Ethics, Us.](https://knowprose.com/2023/12/ai-ethics-us/) - Most of us live in a lot of different worlds, and we see things differently because of it. Some of us live in more than one world at a time. That's why sometimes it's hard for me to consider the promise of artificial intelligence and what we're getting and the direction that's going. There's space - [A Spanish Wired.com](https://knowprose.com/2023/12/a-spanish-wired-com/) - When my friend, Miguel Ángel Pérez Álvarez (MAPA), posted an article from Wired.com, I was surprised to find out that Wired has a Spanish version marketed toward Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Spain, Mexico, Panama and Peru. It doesn't appear to have crossover to the English version which is peculiar, given how I know MAPA. MAPA and - [Beyond SIM cards and Phones](https://knowprose.com/2023/12/beyond-sim-cards-and-phones/) - I woke up this morning after a good night's sleep wondering why we needed SIMs. Sure, eSIMs are coming out but the whole concept is tied pretty well to what 'SIM' stands for: Subscriber Information Module. It's not really for users, it's for the company selling a service. As someone who has spent time in - [The Age of Context.](https://knowprose.com/2023/12/the-age-of-context/) - While the information economy has thrived for a distinct few, we're now in an age of context. It's hard to explain this to people around me sometimes because many still were blissfully unaware that information was the new oil from the late 1990s. Consider that there hasn't been as much uproar as one would expect - [La Brea Syndrome.](https://knowprose.com/2023/11/la-brea-syndrome/) - I haven't really written about Trinidad and Tobago and technology that much except lately with the data breach because it's more frustrating than interesting. When I wrote about Trinidad and Tobago breaking out of the economic tidal pool, the press was for diversifying the Trinidad and Tobago economy with what people in my circles tend - [Better Business, Privacy](https://knowprose.com/2023/11/5588-2/) - When I read, "Better Business TT launches app, website: Protecting customers from rip-off", I laughed a bit. It's not a bad idea, so let me explain. The article, on the Internet, doesn't link to the website or app. It doesn't really say much about the application other than it being a concept borrowed, with attribution, - [Analyze This.](https://knowprose.com/2023/11/analyze-this/) - When I read this article in the Trinidad Express, "Analyzing the TSTT Data Breach", I shook my head a bit. It's all much simpler than what was written down, citing Daniel Smith. Protecting user information in a business is simple and doesn't require couching in robust academic terms because it comes out smelling like something - [A Telecommunications Company Without A CTO?](https://knowprose.com/2023/11/a-telecommunications-company-without-a-cto/) - I'd moved on to other things after writing about the TSTT data breach, and while it seemed that most of the breaches in Trinidad and Tobago that we do know about could have been because organizations didn't keep their content management systems up to date, there was something very weird to me about the whole - [Strategic Deception, AI, and Investors.](https://knowprose.com/2023/11/strategic-deception-ai-and-investors/) - 'Strategic deception' in large language models is indeed a thing. It should be unsurprising. After all, people do it all the time when trying to give the answer that is wanted by the person asking the question. Large Language Models are designed to... give the answer wanted by the person asking the question. That there - ["Business In The Street"](https://knowprose.com/2023/11/business-in-the-street/) - That's a Trinidad and Tobago colloquialism much like dirty laundry, but with it embedded in the street networks of information. Gigabytes, terabytes, or even bytes - it didn't matter the amount of bytes, just the weight of the bytes. A juicy tidbit of gossip didn't need much. In fact, you could consider it decompressing in - [Why So Many Breaches in Trinidad and Tobago?](https://knowprose.com/2023/11/why-so-many-breaches-in-trinidad-and-tobago/) - People continue to ask why there are so many data breaches happening in Trinidad and Tobago. I'm not someone who would call himself a security expert by a stretch, but it's an intriguing enough question that I decided to look into it. Commonalities in Website Technology? First, I checked the websites of those that had - [Confirmed Breach: Courts and PriceSmart.](https://knowprose.com/2023/11/alleged-breach-courts/) - The data breach has been confirmed independently. There is a much better article on the data breach of Courts and Pricesmart available at TechNewsTT.com, and I'll refer people to go read that article. The original article (below) was written when it was just alleged. In what looks to be a data breach of ShopCourts.com, this - [Breach Ho!](https://knowprose.com/2023/11/breach-ho/) - As everyone in Trinidad and Tobago knows, Telecommunications Services of Trinidad and Tobago (TSTT) had a horrible data breach that leaked quite a bit of personal information of customers, from scanned identification to credit card numbers. I sat back for most of it. It was pretty clear to me from the onset that there was - [AI From A Half Century Perspective.](https://knowprose.com/2023/10/ai-from-a-half-century-perspective/) - When I read the Forbes article, "Why These 50 Over 50 Founders Say Beware Of AI 'Hallucination'", I chuckled a bit. I happen to be over 50 and felt the ageism creeping onto my shoulders like a damp bathrobe in technology in the United States. The kids don't want to hear what the grizzled veterans - [The Median Human.](https://knowprose.com/2023/10/the-median-human/) - I've been keeping an eye on artificial intelligence related stuff and most of it isn't as important to write about as people who write about seem to think, so I haven't really written much about it lately. Yet the concept of the 'median human' is. I asked DeepAI to generate an image of 'The Median - [Damnatio Memoriae](https://knowprose.com/2023/09/damnatio-memoriae/) - In discussion with another writer over coffee, I found myself explaining biases in the artificial intelligences - particularly large language models - as something that is recent. Knowledge has been subject to this for millenia. Libraries have long been considered our centers of knowledge. They have existed for millenia and have served as places of - [Free, Libre and Open Source in Trinidad & Tobago.](https://knowprose.com/2023/08/free-libre-and-open-source-in-trinidad-tobago/) - I don't know if it's a factor of age or experience - I consider them mutually exclusive - but when I saw a job opening for an Open Source Consultant here in Trinidad and Tobago, I thought back to how things were and how they have changed in the last 20 years since the FLOS - [Synthetic Recursion and AI.](https://knowprose.com/2023/08/synthetic-recursion-and-ai/) - Somewhere in all the stuff I've been writing about artificial intelligence or AI, I'd mentioned that as more and more AI generated content is on the internet, the training models would increasingly use more of that content which could adversely impact the quality of content generated by the AIs. In it's simplest terms, it's like - [The Quiet Misery of Content Mediators: Sama.](https://knowprose.com/2023/08/the-quiet-misery-of-content-mediators-sama/) - When I first read about content moderators spoke of psychological trauma in moderating Big Tech's content for training models 2 weeks ago, I waited for the other shoe to drop. Instead, aside from a BBC mention related to Facebook, the whole thing seems to have dropped off the radar of the media. The images pop - [NYT Says No To Bots.](https://knowprose.com/2023/08/nyt-says-no-to-bots/) - The content for training large language models and other AIs has been something I have written about before, with being able to opt out of being crawled by AI bots. The New York Times has updated it's Terms and Conditions to disallow that - which I'll get back to in a moment. It's an imperfect - [Caribbean Internet Connectivity and Big Tech.](https://knowprose.com/2023/08/caribbean-internet-connectivity-and-big-tech/) - When I wrote about the recent internet outage in Trinidad and Tobago, I was waiting to find out what the actual cause was so I could follow up. As usual, the talking heads did not have anything of worth to say. In fact, what they had to say seemed pretty insulting to me. What TSTT - [Understanding Followers In An Age of Social Media.](https://knowprose.com/2023/08/understanding-followers-in-an-age-of-social-media/) - In the beginning, there were blogs, and they were good. Mostly. Then came social media, which allowed everyone a blog, per se, and a common area to view everyone else's 'blogs'. In fact, most social media websites are just that - microblogging with better readership by the platform, through the platform, and for the platform. - [Coding and AI: Programmer Evolution.](https://knowprose.com/2023/08/coding-and-ai-programmer-evolution/) - Non technical people may not realize that every bit of software they use, each 'app', has it's own life cycle. It's called the software development life cycle, and we call it that because the focus is not on the software but on the business model that supports it. There are some that argue that Agile - [Internet Access Issues; Trinidad and Tobago](https://knowprose.com/2023/08/internet-access-issues-trinidad-and-tobago/) - It seems like we have another island level issue with Internet access here in Trinidad and Tobago - at least in Trinidad, though I somehow doubt the Caribbean Sea 'firewall' has excluded them from the issue. This is not to say that I have had issues with my internet access provider that often. I honestly - [Blocking AI Bots: The Opt Out Issue.](https://knowprose.com/2023/08/blocking-ai-bots-the-opt-out-issue/) - Those of us that create anything - at least without the crutches of a large language model like ChatGPT- are a bit concerned about our works being used to train large language models. We get no attribution, no pay, and the companies that run the models basically can just grab our work, train their models - [Death by Little Transactions?](https://knowprose.com/2023/08/death-by-little-transactions/) - There was a video I saw in the past week where a gentleman was comparing how things used to be as opposed to how they are now. The story went that you gave $50 to the barber, then the barber would spend the $50 at the car wash or something similar, and then that $50 - [Some Housekeeping.](https://knowprose.com/2023/08/some-housekeeping/) - It's time I got off my posterior and started working out making the site pay for itself at least. I enjoy the writing, I do, yet the bill collectors like me to pay things. They're silly that way, and if you - like I - take issue with that, I will happily send you their - [To What End?](https://knowprose.com/2023/07/to-what-end/) - Sometimes it's worth wondering about whether something is worth the hassle. An example this week was over a parking incident. I am, at present, stuck parking between 2 larger vehicles who are hemmed in by posts on either side. For a while, one of the owners of the spot wasn't using theirs, so I gave - [The Trouble With Predictions.](https://knowprose.com/2023/07/the-trouble-with-predictions/) - We like predictions, particularly if we like the outcomes. We all want the winning lottery ticket because we want that outcome for a small investment. As individuals, we like to beat the odds. Collectively it breaks up into groups who want certain outcomes, and wars have been fought and continue to be fought over certain - [The Nature of How We Perceive AI.](https://knowprose.com/2023/07/the-nature-of-how-we-perceive-ai/) - I began my more formal artificial intelligence reading begun around 1989 with Roger Penrose's "The Emperor's New Mind: Concerning Computers, Minds, and the Laws of Physics", a gift from my father for some birthday or the other. I dreamed of a day where I could work with such systems and I spent much of my - [Wikipedia, AI, Oh My.](https://knowprose.com/2023/07/wikipedia-ai-oh-my/) - One of the most disruptive things that has happened during Web 2.0 is Wikipedia - displacing the Encyclopedia Britannica as an online resource, forging strategic partnerships, and - for better and worse - the editorial community. It has become one of the more dependable sources of information on the Internet, and while imperfect, the editors - [Troubleshooting the Error: A Real World Example.](https://knowprose.com/2023/07/troubleshooting-the-error-a-real-world-example/) - Yesterday, tapping away at my keyboard on my laptop, my screen flickered black. I sighed. "Maybe it was a one off with some background process", I thought, going about my business. It was 3:22 pm. It flickered again. I started paying attention. It did it again. Now I paid attention to the screen because when - [To Err Is Not Just Human.](https://knowprose.com/2023/07/to-err-is-not-just-human/) - When I saw that only only 40% of People Can Identify Bots from Humans, I wasn't too surprised. We like to think that technology is getting smarter, but... well... there are other things that are related that we shouldn't be too quick to discount. ...Children are taught to regurgitate what others tell them and to - [Bias, Color, and Stereotypes Shown by Buzzfeed.](https://knowprose.com/2023/07/bias-color-and-stereotypes-shown-by-buzzfeed/) - Buzzfeed had a post last week that I thought I'd let soak for the comments before I wrote anything about it. The image at top are 4 images from their post, made much smaller to create one image for this one. The intent is to have the examples without the quality, which you can see - [Firing Up Recommendations: Pyrorank.](https://knowprose.com/2023/07/firing-up-recommendations-pyrorank/) - Being a bit busy with other things, I didn't get to write a little but about a new recommendation algorithm which involves artificial intelligence: Pyrorank. It has some lofty claims, largely hidden by academia and academic verbiage. I initially read about it in Researchers devise algorithm to break through 'search bubbles' on July 10th and - [Singularity Summary](https://knowprose.com/2023/07/singularity-summary/) - The last few days I've spent an inordinate amount of time reading a lot about different aspects of the technological singularity. I wrote about it in the context of just the technology aspect, as well as what I found related to the other human aspects. My summary is this. By definition, we'll never be ready - [The Technological Singularity: A Roundup of Perspectives Outside Tech.](https://knowprose.com/2023/07/the-technological-singularity-a-roundup-of-perspectives-outside-tech/) - Yesterday I wrote about the technological singularity as espoused by positive singulitarians that are sharing their perspectives on such a singularity - and rebutted some of the problems with the laser pointer that they want us to focus on. Fairly or unfairly, they quote Ray Kurzweil a lot. Generally speaking, they are in the artificial - [The Technological Singularity.](https://knowprose.com/2023/07/the-technological-singularity/) - Everyone's been tapping out on their keyboards - and perhaps having ChatGPT explain - the technological singularity, or artificial intelligence singularity, or the AI singularity, or... whatever it gets repackaged as next. Wikipedia has a very thorough read on it that is worth at least skimming to understand the basic concepts. It starts with the - [ChatGPT Migrations.](https://knowprose.com/2023/07/chatgpt-migrations/) - I haven't really mentioned ebb and flow to data streams, but it's not that different from what we see in nature. Birds migrate. Elephants migrate. Whales migrate. Users migrate. Sure, they move from application/service to application/service, but during the day they are more likely to use certain software/services. Then we get into weekdays and weekends, - [Political And AI Intrigue In Social Media.](https://knowprose.com/2023/07/political-and-ai-intrigue-in-social-media/) - I normally don't follow politics because politics doesn't really follow me - it tends to stalk me instead. Yet today, with social media in the headline, I paid attention - because it's not just politics involved. There's artificial intelligence as well, or what is accused of it. From the first article: A US federal judge - [Beyond The Moat.](https://knowprose.com/2023/07/beyond-the-moat/) - In the world we like to talk about since it reflects ourselves, technology weaves dendritically through our lives. Much of it is invisible to us in that it is taken for granted. The wires overhead spark with Nikola Tesla's brilliance, the water flowing in pipes dating all the way back 3000-4000 BC in the Indus - [Trinidad and Tobago Takes Stab At Developer Hub.](https://knowprose.com/2023/07/trinidad-and-tobago-takes-stab-at-developer-hub/) - Through TechNewsTT, I found out about Trinidad and Tobago's new Developer Hub today. The name, "D'Hub", is... well. We'll just say that the name is likely why you should never name children by committee. That said, I went ahead and registered. It is, after all, an attempt at something, and maybe it's something I can - [NatGeo Lays Off More Writers. :(](https://knowprose.com/2023/06/natgeo-lays-off-more-writers/) - In probably the saddest news for me this week, National Geographic has layed off the last remaining staff writers. It was a matter of time, I suppose, with the Internet shaking things up for better and worse, and with National Geographic being a business - but how many of us have really considered National Geographic - [Lawsuit Regarding ChatGPT](https://knowprose.com/2023/06/lawsuit-regarding-chatgpt/) - Anonymous individuals are claiming that ChatGPT stole 'vast amounts of data' in what they hope to become a class action lawsuit. It's a nebulous claim about the nebulous data that OpenAI has used to train ChatGPT. ...“Despite established protocols for the purchase and use of personal information, Defendants took a different approach: theft,” they allege. The - [Hallucinations and Artificial Intelligence](https://knowprose.com/2023/06/hallucinations-and-artificial-intelligence/) - Before, when I wrote that artificial intelligence 'hallucinations' sounded a bit more like them just bullshitting, it was an off the cuff semi-educated opinion based on what hallucinations are, and what 'just making stuff up' is commonly called. I drilled down a bit, as I mentioned in the Psychology of Machines, with a bit of - [Exploring Beyond Code 2.0: Into A World of AI.](https://knowprose.com/2023/06/exploring-beyond-code-2-0-into-a-world-of-ai/) - It's become a saying on the Internet without many people understanding it: "Code is Law". This is a reference to one of the works of Lawrence Lessig, revised already since it's original publication. Code Version 2.0 dealt with much of the nuances of Law and Code in an era where we are connected by code. - [Twitter's Just Another Thing To Route Around.](https://knowprose.com/2023/06/twitters-just-another-thing-to-route-around/) - There are people who like Elon Musk to the point of depravity, and there's not much to do about that. I don't bother writing about him because generally speaking, he doesn't cross over into my world very often. Every company he has been involved in has not really added value to me - from PayPal - [Nature Cannot Be Fooled.](https://knowprose.com/2023/06/nature-cannot-be-fooled/) - As the Titan may be reaching the end of it's air supply, the search and rescue efforts are still underway. There's 5 passengers who chose to go on this excursion to the dark graveyard of RMS Titanic, for whatever reasons, and it struck me that there should be redundancies built into the systems. It's common - [Whence Future by Past?](https://knowprose.com/2023/06/whence-future-by-past/) - I was reading on this very interesting use of artificial intelligence to find rare metals for mining when it dawned on me: While this application requires specialized knowledge, much of what artificial intelligence is used for requires a collection of what we have distilled so far in human knowledge. Now, I'm not a socialist and - [The AI Tools I Use.](https://knowprose.com/2023/06/the-ai-tools-i-use/) - After reading this list of 'what AI tools content creators need', I rolled my eyes and shook my head a few times and started writing this. That list is about video, SEO, etc, and while some of that stuff I may experiment with... I don't need it. Why? Because I'm not creating video and I - [The Beatles, AI, and Creativity.](https://knowprose.com/2023/06/the-beatles-ai-and-creativity/) - Last week, the news came out that The Beatles are releasing a new song with a 'little help from their AI friend'. It took me a bit of time to try to be circumspect about it, so I decided to think on it over the weekend. I read what I could about it, trying to - [Where's Your Parachute? AI and Jobs.](https://knowprose.com/2023/06/wheres-your-parachute-ai-and-jobs/) - People working to make ends meet generally don't have the time to worry about artificial intelligence taking their jobs until it's too late. That's already beginning to happen. "...Earlier this year, a report from Goldman Sachs said that AI could potentially replace the equivalent of 300 million full-time jobs. Any job losses would not fall - [Images and AI by an Unartist.](https://knowprose.com/2023/06/images-and-ai-by-an-unartist/) - I can't draw to save my life, and I've been fortunate it's never come to that. However, with AI, I can create images that I could not afford an artist to do for me, as I did for the RealityFragments 'about' page recently by doing what I am good - hacking text. The thing is, - [The Ongoing Saga of the 'AI'pocalypse](https://knowprose.com/2023/06/the-ongoing-saga-of-the-aipocalypse/) - I ran across an surprisingly well done article on the AIpocalypse thing, which I have written about before in 'Artificial Extinction', and it's worth perusing. "...In his testimony before Congress, Altman also said the potential for AI to be used to manipulate voters and target disinformation were among “my areas of greatest concern.” Even in - [Revisiting Interactivity on Wordpress.com](https://knowprose.com/2023/06/revisiting-interactivity-on-wordpress-com/) - While I was interacting in the RealityFragments Facebook page (join in!) about the use case issue of allowing users to log in to interact with content on RealityFragments and here, it occurred to me that Wordpress probably does allow for people with Google accounts to log in. Wordpress does have a plugin for allowing Google - [Science Meets Science Fiction: Giving AI Senses.](https://knowprose.com/2023/06/science-meets-science-fiction-giving-ai-senses/) - At present, the only information that these stabs at artificial intelligence get is through our curation. Some subset of humanity decides what goes into the training models and tweaks the algorithms, and then we get them to spit out gobs of text, images, and even video. Personally, I've never seen much value in all of - [Revisiting Design: The RealityFragments Like/Comment Use Case](https://knowprose.com/2023/06/revisiting-design-the-realityfragments-like-comment-use-case/) - Yesterday, I went on a bit of a spree on RealityFragments.com, with the results fairly summarized on the RealityFragments About Page. The reason for the spree was pretty simple. There are some issues with design. Some of it is implicit in Wordpress.com. To 'like' or 'comment' on content, you require a Wordpress.com account. It's painful - [Trinidad and Tobago: Copying of IDs Continues.](https://knowprose.com/2023/06/trinidad-and-tobago-copying-of-ids-continue/) - When I wrote about the amount of photocopies made of IDs in Trinidad and Tobago, back in 2018, I failed to look forward because as most things in Trinidad and Tobago, we are so focused on the present which looks a lot like the past in other nations. I'd considered writing a really long article - [Facebook Accounts: Fake Accounts vs. Hacked.](https://knowprose.com/2023/06/facebook-accounts-fake-accounts-vs-hacked/) - Once again when I logged into Facebook I saw someone posting, "If you get a friend request from me I've been hacked! It's not me!", or something to that effect. The short answer to this can be found here on reporting a fake Facebook profile, but please continue reading because you should know this. It's - [Internet Detritus.](https://knowprose.com/2023/06/internet-detritus/) - Back in 1996 I was driving to work in the Clearwater, Florida area and saw a billboard to Brainbuzz.com, now viewable only through the Wayback Machine. I joined, and I ended up writing for them. Not around anymore. They became CramSession.com, where I continued writing for them. I had roughly 100 articles I wrote for - [Our Own Wall.](https://knowprose.com/2023/06/our-own-wall/) - One of the more profound biases we have when it comes to our technology is just how stupid we can be. Ignorant, too, because we often forget just how little we know in the grand scheme of things which is well beyond our sight at any time, no matter how well informed we are. It's - [Bubbles Distilled By Time.](https://knowprose.com/2023/06/bubbles-distilled-by-time/) - We all perceive the world through our own little bubbles. As far as our senses go, we only have touch, taste, feeling, hearing, smell and sight to go by. The rest comes from what we glean through those things, be it other people, technology, language, culture, etc. If the bubble is too small, we feel - [Distilling Traffic](https://knowprose.com/2023/06/distilling-traffic/) - Having pulled Data Transfer out of cars, I'll revisit traffic itself: "...Each of them is a physical record of their ancestors, dating back to their, marked by life events – living memory. In minds alone, each human brain is 100 terabytes, with a range of 1 Terabyte to 2.5 Petabytes according to present estimates. Factor - [Data Transfer](https://knowprose.com/2023/06/data-transfer/) - In today's news, a fruit company continues marketing stuff to people who don't need what they're selling for the price it is being sold for - but who buy it because of the brand. Wait, that isn't a fruit company. Doesn't matter. It's a slow news day. So I'll build up some of what I - [Language as a Communication Technology](https://knowprose.com/2023/06/language-as-a-communication-technology/) - We don't talk about how much language is a communication technology with it's own compatibilities and incompatibilities. Until around 2004, I had no idea how much of an impact it had. CARDICIS opened my eyes to a lot, as simple as it was. Growing up, the education system and or my school decided that it - [Bias in AI, Social Media, and Beyond.](https://knowprose.com/2023/06/bias-in-ai-social-media-and-beyond/) - One of the things that is hard to convey to many people is how bias actually affects things. So I'll offer a unique perspective, one that involves hamburgers. All good stories should have a good burger of some sort, whatever your meat or lack of meat allows for. Some people will see 'burger' and go - [Trinidad and Tobago and/vs AI.](https://knowprose.com/2023/05/trinidad-and-tobago-and-vs-ai/) - When I wrote 'Artificial Extinction', I briefly touched on coverage related to artificial intelligence here in Trinidad and Tobago. It's hard to explain just how out of mind it is, so I'll just write a bit of the local scene. Today, as I stood in line waiting an annoying amount of time waiting to pay - [Artificial Extinction.](https://knowprose.com/2023/05/artificial-extinction/) - The discussion regarding artificial intelligence continues, with the latest round of cautionary notes making the rounds. Media outlets are covering it, like CNBC's "A.I. poses human extinction risk on par with nuclear war, Sam Altman and other tech leaders warn". Different versions of that article written by different organizations are all over right now, but - [Gaming The Medium](https://knowprose.com/2023/05/gaming-the-medium/) - Even as we paint on society's canvas, society paints on our individual canvases, and in this modern world of the Internet, social media and games, there's a lot of paint being thrown around. Our world changes us, we change our world. It's not all as pretty as staged videos on Instagram, TikTok and Facebook reels, - [When Trolls Troll with AI Images.](https://knowprose.com/2023/05/when-trolls-troll-with-ai-images/) - In the latest news, LatestSoup posted about a fake image of an explosion near the Pentagon being taken seriously on Twitter. Unsurprisingly, the fake image of the Pentagon explosion sent jitters through the stock market. Verified accounts on Twitter apparently unknowingly helped with this because - surprise! - paying $15 doesn't always mean you know - [Broken Time.](https://knowprose.com/2023/05/broken-time/) - This space was going to be intentionally left blank as I spend some time on Memorial Day, but then this I was reminded by a vibrating watch that I had to write something here - a reminder. Reminders allow us to remember to do things, which is also a fitting thing to write about given - [You Ain't Just the Medium.](https://knowprose.com/2023/05/you-aint-just-the-medium/) - There are some topics I've been writing about that people may not realize are connected, but they are. When I wrote about how we humans, we algorithms are doing bonsai on ourselves and artificial intelligences, it was not just happenstance. We are a medium. Just one on the planet, but we are a medium, built - [Science Fiction in Latin America.](https://knowprose.com/2023/05/science-fiction-in-latin-america/) - When I read the image to the left from over at Classics of Fiction about the New Prehistory, I was surprised that I didn't know about the lack of science fiction roots in Hispanic countries. It opened a door. Science fiction fires the imagination for applying science and technology to issues, so this is important. - [Towel Day 2023.](https://knowprose.com/2023/05/towel-day-2023/) - It's the 25th of May, 2023. If you froody people don't know where your towels are, you're not hip enough for your pelvis! For those who don't know what this is all about: Douglas Adams fans around the world celebrate Towel Day. It's not really a holiday despite the great number of bureaucracies that have - [Free Book Resources (Digital, Audio).](https://knowprose.com/2023/05/free-book-resources-digital-audio/) - Often in conversation or on social media, I'll end up pointing out places where you can get books legally and at no cost. Today's as good a day as any to point people at them. First and foremost, I have to point to Project Gutenberg, which has been around over 50 years (before the Internet), - [Finally: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks.](https://knowprose.com/2023/05/finally-the-immortal-life-of-henrietta-lacks/) - Yesterday, on an adventure that included accidentally finding the worst lamb gyro in Trinidad and Tobago, I found myself in a bookstore in a mall. The selections are generally dismal in Trinidad for me, which is unfair since I have read much in my life and it's hard to find things that appeal to me. - [Cliche Meeting.](https://knowprose.com/2023/05/cliche-meeting/) - A few days ago, there was a townhall meeting where I lived. The Board wanted to inform us of stuff. So I went, planning to spend 2 hours listening to boring details about stuff that doesn't matter to me, but matters to many people. Sort of like the dolly issue. Previous board inspired meetings with - [Artifice Girl](https://knowprose.com/2023/05/artifice-girl/) - With all that's being marketed as artificial intelligence out there, this could be an interesting movie for at least some people who might like to see a merging of technology and humanity. If you're not appreciative of movies driven entirely by dialog, this is not your movie. There's a bit of suspended disbelief too that - [Rolling The Text Dice.](https://knowprose.com/2023/05/rolling-the-text-dice/) - I haven't published any science fiction other than some things here and there on my blogs, so I wouldn't say that I'm an expert on writing Science Fiction - but I most certainly would consider myself an expert on reading Science Fiction. And it's Sunday, and this is what I feel like writing about today. - [Education and AI](https://knowprose.com/2023/05/education-and-ai/) - Having coffee with a friend yesterday, I was listening to her talk about meetings with teachers and encouraging her daughter to read at least 30 minutes a day. This is likely mundane conversation for many people, but the minutiae of it is interesting to me. It is, after all, a system. Everyone I have met - [Wordpress.com discontinuing Twitter Auto-Share](https://knowprose.com/2023/05/wordpress-com-discontinuing-twitter-auto-share/) - While I was scheduling a post for RealityFragments.com I noticed that the auto-tweet functionality was no longer being done by Wordpress.com. Of course I looked into it, not because I'm a fan of Twitter - I wasn't before Musk took it over and began breaking everything - but because it is an avenue that at - [The Expanse: Coming Soon to PS5.](https://knowprose.com/2023/05/the-expanse-coming-soon-to-ps5/) - It's not often I write about games, but one of my favorite sci-fi series, The Expanse, is getting gamed, even as I wait for Homeworld III. It will be for PC via Epic Games Store, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X|S. What I loved about the expanse was the gritty realism and the - [Beware The False ChatGPTs.](https://knowprose.com/2023/05/beware-the-false-chatgpts/) - It was inevitable. Unscrupulous folks decided to cash in on ChatGPT's financial successes by tossing some fake ones out there for cell phones - and they're making some money, fleeceware, etc. See this article by the experts at Sophos for more. The immediate list you should delete from your phone at the time of this - [Artificial Intelligence on a Real Planet.](https://knowprose.com/2023/05/artificial-intelligence-on-a-real-planet/) - With all that I have written about recently, I think it's important to point out that I'm not against artificial intelligence. I'm concerned about how it is used and managed, which I also believe we all should be, down to the last ditch digger. Artificial intelligence on existing systems are pretty interesting, but there is - [Whose Safe Space Is It Anyway?](https://knowprose.com/2023/05/whose-safe-space-is-it-anyway/) - Corporations have been creating "safe spaces" for themselves for a while, and while that can be read as either good or bad depending on how you feel about things, let's just accept that as an objective truth. Disney took things from the public domain and copyrighted their versions, making them as ubiquitous as their marketing - [More Lawyers? Really?](https://knowprose.com/2023/05/more-lawyers-really/) - We're all guilty of looking at the world through our own lenses of experience. The person barely making ends meet while working 3 jobs in a thankless economy to support a family is not going to see things the same as a doctor or lawyer, as an example, particularly after they've done their internships. The - [It's All Statistics.](https://knowprose.com/2023/05/its-all-statistics/) - Everyone's out to protect you online because everyone's out to get you online. It's a weird mix of people who want to use your data for profit and those who want to use your data for profit. Planned obsolescence is something that has become ubiquitous in this technological age. It wasn't always this way. Things - [Trafficked++](https://knowprose.com/2023/05/trafficked/) - It's not a mistake that I was writing about practical communication earlier this morning, because on the Internet there are different rules if you're concerned about traffic to your content. There's all manner of Search Engine Optimization stuff, from linking to similar content to being linked to from similar content, to using words and phrases - [Google, AI, and Search.](https://knowprose.com/2023/05/google-ai-and-search/) - It's no secret that Google is in the AI "arms race", as it has been called, and there is some criticism that they're in too much of a hurry. "...The [AI] answer is displayed at the top, and on the left are links to sites from which it drew its answer. But this will look - [When Wendy Meets Karen.](https://knowprose.com/2023/05/when-wendy-meets-karen/) - Because the economy is so awesome, Wendy's is working with Google on integrating an AI chat-bot into their drive-thrus. The italics might be an indicator of sarcasm. Granted, I'm not a fan of fast food jobs, though when it comes to fast food burgers in the United States, I do lean toward Wendy's. Even so, - [Artificial Intimacy](https://knowprose.com/2023/05/artificial-intimacy/) - One of the weirdest things that has come out of this technology hype over something marketed as artificial intelligence is that a SnapChat influencer has launched an 'AI' version of herself that will be your girlfriend for $1/minute. Probably the funniest part is that her name is phonetically the same as Karen. So you can - [Google and The New York Times: A New Path?](https://knowprose.com/2023/05/google-and-the-new-york-times-a-new-path/) - A few days ago I mentioned the normalization of Web 2.0, and yesterday I ended up reading about The New York Times getting around $100 million over a period of 3 years from Google. "...The deal gives the Times an additional revenue driver as news publishers are bracing for an advertising-market slowdown. The company posted - [AI: Standing on the Shoulders of Technology, Seeking Humanity](https://knowprose.com/2023/05/beyond-technology-toward-humanity-a-short-essay-on-the-promises-of-ai/) - “When the mob governs, man is ruled by ignorance; when the church governs, he is ruled by superstition; and when the state governs, he is ruled by fear. Before men can live together in harmony and understanding, ignorance must be transmuted into wisdom, superstition into an illumined faith, and fear into love.” Manly P. Hall, - [Normalized Vice, AI-pedia?](https://knowprose.com/2023/05/normalized-vice-ai-pedia/) - When I read, "AI is tearing Wikipedia apart", I immediately recalled all the personal issues I had with the never-to-return-because-I-said-so page on myself. It's long and involved, but the short story is about dealing with some pretty different ways we all think of Wikipedia, and the different sects of volunteers involved. Yes, there are sects, - [47 Seconds.](https://knowprose.com/2023/05/47-seconds/) - Fair warning: my writing typically takes more than 47 seconds to read. It's science. Attention spans are shrinking: ...Unfortunately, all too many of us are having “squirrel” days, according to Dr. Gloria Mark, a professor of informatics at the University of California, Irvine, who studies how digital media impacts our lives. In her new book, - [Normalizing The Mob.](https://knowprose.com/2023/05/normalizing-the-mob/) - I was glancing around social media when I saw NPR's, "Hard times Are Ahead for news sites and social media. Is this the end of Web 2.0?": ..."The news industry didn't really have a profit model other than trying to get eyeballs and earn digital advertising revenue," said Courtney Radsch, who studies technology and media - [Is Output of ChatGPT Text a Derived Work?](https://knowprose.com/2023/04/is-output-of-chatgpt-text-a-derived-work/) - One of the things that has bothered me most about ChatGPT is that it's data was scraped from the Internet, where a fair amount of writing I have done resides. It would be hubris to think that what I wrote is so awesome that it could be 'stealing' from me, but it would also be - [False Confidence](https://knowprose.com/2023/04/4458-2/) - When I'm out and about, I make connections with people I see regularly. Recently, I encountered a security guard I know who works regularly at a local mall, and he and I paused to chat. He generally has a 'new and improved way' to get out of his job, where he makes about the equivalent - [The Complicated Publishing Issue.](https://knowprose.com/2023/04/the-complicated-publishing-issue/) - Most of the people around me are completely unaware of the Internet Archive being successfully sued over sharing electronic books by some publishers: ...In July 2020, immediately after the Covid lockdown, four publishers – Hachette, HarperCollins, Wiley and Penguin Random House – decided to bring a major lawsuit against the Internet Archive, claiming it had ‘infringed their - [That Other Linguistic Bias...](https://knowprose.com/2023/04/that-other-linguistic-bias/) - It seemed a bit strange to me to write about the bias in English when I have also been aware of the linguistic diversity of the Internet for some time. I didn't shove that in because I was not up to date on the latest data regarding language and those connecting to the Internet. As - [Silent Bias](https://knowprose.com/2023/04/silent-bias/) - Once upon a time as a Navy Corpsman in the former Naval Hospital in Orlando, we lost a patient for a period - we simply couldn't find them. There was a search of the entire hospital. We eventually did find her but it wasn't by brute force. It was by recognizing what she had come - [Media Tourists](https://knowprose.com/2023/04/media-tourists/) - Every morning I set aside my morning coffee to travel the world through my mobile phone as if it were a spaceship, hermetically sealed. I peer through the window as I travel from point to point I find of interest that morning. One moment I'm checking on my friends in Ukraine inobtrusively, keenly aware that - [Captcha THAT.](https://knowprose.com/2023/04/captcha-that/) - When I first started programming, I did a lot of walking. A few months ago I checked the distance I walked every day just back and forth to school and it was about 3.5 km, not counting being sent to the store, or running errands. At the same time, we had this IBM System 36 - [The Societal Mirror.](https://knowprose.com/2023/04/the-societal-mirror/) - The article, "Introducing the AI Mirror Test, which very smart people keep failing", hits some pretty good points on these large language models that we are lazily calling Artificial Intelligence. One of my favorites is this: ...What is important to remember is that chatbots are autocomplete tools. They’re systems trained on huge datasets of human - [Through A Blurry Looking Glass.](https://knowprose.com/2023/03/through-a-blurry-looking-glass/) - I've been spending, like so many, an inordinate amount of time considering the future of what we accuse of being artificial intelligence, particularly since I've been focusing on my writing and suddenly we have people getting things written for them by ChatGPT. I'll add that the present quality doesn't disturb me as much as the - [A Chat With ChatGPT On AI.](https://knowprose.com/2023/03/a-chat-with-chatgpt-on-ai/) - In my youth, I fiddled with Eliza. For decades I read books on AI, and thought deeply on the subject in many ways. In later decades, I would find myself playing with neural networks at home even while I did the drudgery of coding and debugging systems that made the term 'software archaeology' very real - [The Process Is Underway](https://knowprose.com/2023/03/the-process-is-underway/) - It took me decades to figure out something that I should have long ago. Call it naivete. When I first came back to Trinidad and Tobago, I thought my software engineering knowledge and experience would be considered worthwhile and useful, but all too often it was rejected in the need to pursue more local and - [Always Start With the Basics.](https://knowprose.com/2023/02/always-start-with-the-basics/) - I volunteered to assist with an office becoming more technology based, and so a month ago I put together a proposal on how to do this on a black box of an office. Let's take a moment and look at that. I volunteered to do something and was asked for a proposal on something I - [Rebuilding Trinidad and Tobago.](https://knowprose.com/2022/11/rebuilding-trinidad-and-tobago/) - I have been observing fairly quietly the way things are going in Trinidad and Tobago, and it's hard to say that things are going well by any stretch. Even Global Voices has picked up on the disconnect between politicians and the people that they allegedly serve, and even after that politicians continued speaking in quite - [Goodbye, Flickr.](https://knowprose.com/2022/10/goodbye-flickr/) - Recently, my subscription to Flickr expired and on logging in today, they asked me once again to upgrade. Something like $143 for 2 years, or $6+ a month. I balanced this in my mind. When I was exploring photography and truly enjoying making so many mistakes, Flickr was a pretty good deal. Now, not so - [If You Boost Content.](https://knowprose.com/2022/09/if-you-boost-content/) - Out of the blue last week, someone I knew said they knew a way that I could get the site to make $500 a month if I simply continued thrashing out content like a mad monkey. Well, that's not exactly what he said, but that's how I read it. Of course, he wanted to schedule - [Dealing With Information: Why I'm Back To Physical Books.](https://knowprose.com/2022/08/dealing-with-information-why-im-back-to-physical-books/) - Before the Internet, I remember when Hypertext was first covered in Byte Magazine back in the 1980s. I thought that hypertext would be awesome since it could link to relative terms, as Wikipedia does now, and a teenage version of me was floored by the potential. It didn't go quite the way I thought it - [A Need For Patches](https://knowprose.com/2022/08/a-need-for-patches/) - Yesterday I was just sitting around and thinking about a bunch of sentient beings on a moon of some planet way off in imaginary-land and ended up thinking a bit about education. I don't think it was profound, really, but I think it might be of use when we think about society and how it - [Why Social Media Moderation Fails](https://knowprose.com/2022/08/why-social-media-moderation-fails/) - Moderation of content has become a bit ridiculous on social media sites of late. Given that this post will show up on Facebook, and the image at top will be shown, it's quite possible that the Facebook algorithms that have run amok with me over similiar things, clear parody, may further restrict my account. I - [Constitutionality and Creativity](https://knowprose.com/2022/08/constitutionality-and-creativity/) - Happy Emancipation Day, Trinidad and Tobago. I have no personal stories related to Emancipation other than my father's death coinciding some years ago, but I think this falls under 'Emancipation from Bureaucracy'. My late great-Uncle on my paternal grandmother's side was quite a character, someone who lead an interesting life. Before he died, he would - [Writing For Myself: Issues.](https://knowprose.com/2022/07/writing-for-myself-issues/) - I've been looking into self-publishing, and other ways to write the things that I want and make a bit of cash on the side. Certainly, it's not a way to get rich since we all can't be bestselling authors, but it's a way to do what I enjoy and derive some income. I know people - [Restarting and Reimagining.](https://knowprose.com/2022/07/restarting-and-reimagining/) - KnowProSE.com has been my core domain for roughly 20 years, probably more like 22, but I'm uncertain and don't care to check. In that period it has morphed, it has been many things, and at the core of it my personal evolution and it's evolution grew to become an issue. I even thought last year - [Pandemics, Trinidad and Tobago, Oh My](https://knowprose.com/2021/07/pandemics-trinidad-and-tobago-oh-my/) - I've been looking for angles on how to write about this latest lockdown in Trinidad and Tobago. I considered writing something for TechNewsTT.com about the technology aspects, but the article always fell short in my mind and seemed to dance just a bit beyond a technology aspect. Then, too, writing anything critical in Trinidad and - [Merging to RealityFragments.com](https://knowprose.com/2019/09/merging-to-realityfragments-com/) - In a bold move that has yet to happen, I'll be merging KnowProSE.com to RealityFragments.com. - [The Babel Problem](https://knowprose.com/2019/01/the-babel-problem/) - Some self-centric perspectives shared using social media creating a communication failure got me thinking more about information and how it affects us, as individuals, and how it affects humanity. It's also something that I've been researching off and on, and one which has me working on a hobby software project related to it. Information is - [Using Social Media.](https://knowprose.com/2019/01/using-social-media/) - It seems strange to me when people write about, 'On Facebook', or, 'On Twitter'... or, 'On Social Media'. I think it lends itself to the thought that people are above it. As if they have no responsibility for their actions and reactions, as well as what those reactions and actions cause. In the same way, - [Digitized Paper Processes of Trinidad and Tobago](https://knowprose.com/2019/01/digitized-paper-processes-of-trinidad-and-tobago/) - It drives me a bit nuts when I have to deal with some things in Trinidad and Tobago. When I signed up for electronic billing for Water (WASA) and for Electricity (T&TEC), not to mention Internet (Amplia), I foolishly expected a process that was not reliant on paper. How foolish of me. I have to - [2019: New Year, Same Problems.](https://knowprose.com/2019/01/2019-new-year-same-problems/) - I've managed to avoid the deluge of end of year posts by people, as well as their bright and shiny posts of what they expect in 2019. After you've seen enough of them, you know the recipe and you can make your own - even if it's not a very good recipe, even if it - [Exploring the Anki Vector SDK Alpha.](https://knowprose.com/2018/12/exploring-the-anki-vector-sdk-alpha/) - In my last post here, I said that the true value of the Anki Vector to me would be determined by the Software Development Kit (SDK), which wasn't yet released. I am a bit disappointed that no one at Anki answered my tweet on it to date - and so I used a Douglas Adams - [The Anki Vector: Let's Wait For the API.](https://knowprose.com/2018/12/the-anki-vector-lets-wait-for-the-api/) - So, I got an Anki Vector. My reasons for buying one were pretty simple, really - it seemed like a throwback to the 70s when I had a Big Trak, a programmable machine that had me often shooting my mother with a laser and harassing the family dog. With Big Trak's Logo-ish programming, there were - [Media Responsibility and Learning.](https://knowprose.com/2018/11/media-responsibility-and-learning/) - I often cringe when I read what people share on social media. Aside from the inner proofreader that was so necessary as a youth, I run across things like, "TTPS: Illegal entry into T&T is a crime". If the goal was to make the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service look illiterate - mission accomplished. If - [Career Advice from a Neo-generalist Perspective.](https://knowprose.com/2018/11/career-advice-from-a-neo-generalist-perspective/) - People ask me career advice now and then. Generally, people who do so can't follow the beaten path. There's plenty of career advice out there for the beaten paths. The basic recipe is simple: Secondary School Tertiary Education Maybe specialize further. ????? Profit! I've met a few people who this has worked for - which - [Bring Ice Cream to Meeting Hell.](https://knowprose.com/2018/11/bring-ice-cream-to-meeting-hell/) - If you think meetings suck, you're probably doing it wrong or you're stuck with people who do - so either do it right, or find a way out of those meetings. Most meetings suffer a lack of definition, which is the core issue. Without that lack of definition, there can be no real actions to - [Beyond The Flooding in Trinidad and Tobago](https://knowprose.com/2018/11/beyond-the-flooding-in-trinidad-and-tobago/) - This comes in the way of an apology to readers outside of Trinidad and Tobago: I've written more in the past week about Trinidad and Tobago than I typically do and the reason behind that is simple: I felt it needed to be written. And in that, there is no real apology. There are lessons - [Trinidad and Tobago Flooding 2018: Causes. (Pt 4)](https://knowprose.com/2018/10/trinidad-and-tobago-flooding-2018-causes-pt-4/) - The government of Trinidad and Tobago is launching it's own investigation into the flooding. I'd be surprised if they found themselves culpable at any level unless political mileage can be had, but to be honest, the present administration has surprised me here and there and I'd welcome a surprise. Clogged waterways are the obvious issue - [Trinidad and Tobago Flooding 2018: Observations; Logistics (Pt 3).](https://knowprose.com/2018/10/trinidad-and-tobago-flooding-2018-observations-logistics-pt-3/) - In Part 2 related to my Observations of the Trinidad and Tobago Flooding in 2018, logistics gets mentioned and it's worth noting that a lot of people don't really understand what logistics is. Logistics, in it's simplest form, is the detailed organization and implementation of a complex operation. Disaster response tends to be complex because what is - [Trinidad and Tobago Flooding 2018: Observations on Government (Pt 2)](https://knowprose.com/2018/10/trinidad-and-tobago-flooding-2018-observations-on-government-pt-2/) - In Part I related to the 2018 flooding in Trinidad and Tobago, I was very upbeat about how the community was handling things, and here, now, I will be less upbeat - but not as a matter of politics. The government response is a symptom of a lack of preparedness for a disaster at this - [Trinidad and Tobago Flooding 2018: Observations, Pt 1.](https://knowprose.com/2018/10/trinidad-and-tobago-flooding-2018-observations-pt-1/) - I've been quiet about the flooding, observing and absorbing. It's no secret that there has been flooding this year in Trinidad and Tobago, enough so that Trinidad and Tobago asked for the regional catastrophe facility for financial help. The Trinidad and Tobago community rose to the challenge even while government seemed as overwhelmed as the - [The Straw That Wrote The Camel's Back](https://knowprose.com/2018/10/the-straw-that-wrote-the-camels-back/) - After the vacation, I've been thinking over a few things that apply here and, if you're patient, you'll get to my point. This is normally fodder for my other blog, but I think it fits here on this site to this readership. I've been a workaholic as far back as I remember. The reasons for - [If Not Labeled Obscenely...](https://knowprose.com/2018/10/if-not-labeled-obscenely/) - Not long ago, Trinidad and Tobago was dealing with a strange situation - whether 'sex toys' were illegal to import. There were first stories saying that sex toys were banned, and I noted this as peculiar and took the media to task on it for doing less research than I did in less than an - [Are You A Photographer?](https://knowprose.com/2018/10/are-you-a-photographer/) - I'm having a few pieces printed for myself and the young woman asks a question. "Are you a photographer?" I have a camera. I capture what electrons are bounced around onto a sensor through optics, a science that Sir Isaac Newton was kind enough to toss down through history through the centuries such that I - [The Need For A Vacation.](https://knowprose.com/2018/10/the-need-for-a-vacation/) - I took some time off - got out of the new home, got away from the old problems and the old thoughts. There were times that I took some time for myself, and those who know me well will say that it's actually rare for me to not be alone somewhere, but it's not quite - [Maintenance vs. Disposable Culture](https://knowprose.com/2018/09/maintenance-vs-disposable-culture/) - Like some of you, I grew up in what I call a maintenance culture. We took care of what we had because it wasn't disposable, because we appreciated it, and because we wanted it to last longer. You still find it here and there when you open the hood of a vehicle and see a neatly - [Traffic Sucks: litres per 100 km.](https://knowprose.com/2018/09/traffic-sucks-litres-per-100-km/) - Lately I've been driving between San Fernando and Port of Spain, a 52.3 km haul by Google Maps. Going North, I avoid the traffic, and going South, I typically do. Yesterday, I didn't. We all know that traffic sucks. We all know we waste fuel in it. And sometimes there are legitimate reasons for it - [Retrofitting Cars: Electric.](https://knowprose.com/2018/09/retrofitting-cars-electric/) - We all know that cars pollute, even if we don't like to think about it when we hit that accelerator. We also know that new cars generally pollute less - sometimes, even down to zero emissions. What no one talks about is how many older cars are out there that will continue polluting, largely because - [Communication: Evolving?](https://knowprose.com/2018/08/communication-evolving/) - I was connecting with someone who ran into me while I was having some naan and other things in Maraval, Trinidad, after the fact - through Facebook messenger. And emojis came up. I use them quite a bit in quick communications, and it's because people who don't know me can't always judge my mood by - [A New Chapter for Trinidad and Tobago](https://knowprose.com/2018/08/a-new-chapter-for-trinidad-and-tobago/) - I've never written about the oil and gas industry. I'm certainly no expert - there are plenty of people claiming to be with or without credentials, and I don't wish to intrude upon their space. Oil and gas, after all, is a messy affair. In Trinidad and Tobago, even more so since it has and - [The Art of Interruption.](https://knowprose.com/2018/08/the-art-of-interruption/) - This meme is making the rounds - and while it is funny, for those who have seen 'The Princess Bride', it really hits an issue that... Well, it bugs me. It applies to so many things beyond phone calls these days. Maybe you can blame your parents if you don't do these things. Maybe it - [The Reading Problem.](https://knowprose.com/2018/08/the-reading-problem/) - We've all encountered it. We post an article on some social network and someone comments without reading the article, or not reading it properly. As someone who writes, I went through the stages of grief about it. I can apathetically report that I don't care as much as I used to about it. Many people - [Let It Marinate.](https://knowprose.com/2018/08/let-it-marinate/) - One of the things that makes the rounds in the blogosphere as a 'truth' is that you have to blog every day. In a niche, if you follow another 'truth'. This leads to all kinds of crap content. Really. People reblog other people's blogs, trying to capitalize on something someone else wrote in the hope - [About What I Write (2018)](https://knowprose.com/2018/08/about-what-i-write-2018/) - This will be a long post, so come back with coffee, tea, something else, or not at all. It's meant to be linked from the 'About' page. I've been going back and engaging some of Renard Moreau's ongoing conversations - it's a nice blog Renard has - and it's healthy to pause for a bit - [Global Audiences, Global Publishing](https://knowprose.com/2018/08/global-audiences-global-publishing/) - I wrote 'Local Context In All Context In A Networked World' a few weeks before I wrote 'Writers Without Borders'. That there's a common theme is not a mistake. On a planet where we now can know almost instantaneously know what is happening on other parts of the planet, we as a whole aren't really - [Writers Without Borders.](https://knowprose.com/2018/08/writers-without-borders/) - When Renard Moreau wrote about the six things that baffled him, I had to respond - and I did. Yet there is more I'd like to say on the topic of, "Where are the bloggers from Trinidad and Tobago?". There was a time when I was considered to be a blogger from Trinidad and Tobago. - [The Failure To Communicate. [Updated 22 Aug 2018]](https://knowprose.com/2018/08/the-failure-to-communicate/) - I found yesterday (21 Aug 2018) that I had made an error in this; the Customs Act does in fact have something on obscene materials. The mistake I made was in assuming that they had searchable text. They do not have searchable text in the PDFs they have online, something worthy of note - but - [The Reading Tax: Trinidad and Tobago.](https://knowprose.com/2018/08/the-reading-tax-trinidad-and-tobago/) - While we live in an era where digital books are prevalent, and I have many of them, there are certain books that I like to have physically. And I like to have them in hardcover because, if a book is worth having physically, it's worth having the hardcover. So I ordered the book on the - [Filling Voids](https://knowprose.com/2018/08/filling-voids/) - I'm paying much more attention to my writing these days and, stepping back for a moment last night, I realized that some of the things I've been writing are to fill voids. There's the issue of purchasing land in Trinidad and Tobago, which isn't actually hard, but it is something a significant amount of people I - [Writing Bios.](https://knowprose.com/2018/08/writing-bios/) - We live in a world where there's video, where there's audio... and there's the writing. Many people write every day. Some, not at all. Writing, like everything else, takes practice. I got a message today from a close friend: How do you write so seemingly effortlessly? I've been trying to write a simple staff bio - [See An Attorney: Purchasing Land in T&T](https://knowprose.com/2018/08/see-an-attorney-purchasing-land-in-tt/) - There's always a deal too good to be true anywhere, but in Trinidad and Tobago it seems those that are easily swindled are found all over - I've met more than a few. This post on Facebook about an allegedly dishonest real estate agent is what prompted this post. I've seen it too many times, - [Ferrying The Wrong Questions Without Data](https://knowprose.com/2018/08/ferrying-the-wrong-questions-without-data/) - People have been talking a lot about the new ferry between Trinidad and Tobago, the MV Galleon's Passage. There's been plenty of coverage in the media - some I'm certain I haven't seen - but I ignored much of it because it was apparent that people talking about the ship and the one it had - [A More Climate-Smart Caribbean? [Updated]](https://knowprose.com/2018/08/a-more-climate-smart-caribbean/) - From Richard Branson's comment on his post - thank you - here is his response with what countries are on the list: "Hi Taran - the countries already signed up are: Grenada, St. Lucia, Dominica, Jamaica, Montserrat, Turks and Caicos, St. Kitts & Nevis, Antigua & Barbuda, US Virgin Islands, Anguilla, British Virgin Islands, Belize, - [Information Fiefdoms](https://knowprose.com/2018/08/information-fiefdoms/) - Yesterday, I found myself standing in Nigel Khan's bookstore in Southpark, looking at what I consider old books. I have a habit when I look at books, something I picked up in Trinidad some years ago after the Internet became more than a novelty. I check the date a book was published. It keeps me - [Browser Tab Hell: There's a Chrome Extension For It.](https://knowprose.com/2018/08/browser-tab-hell-theres-a-chrome-extension-for-it/) - I rebooted the system I use for writing most this morning after I did a firmware update. Then, I opened my browser. This happened roughly 4 hours ago and I went about things normally. Suddenly, I have 24 tabs open. I can't tell you how it happened. The part of me that doesn't want to - [Facebook And Your Finances](https://knowprose.com/2018/08/facebook-and-your-finances/) - Just as Facebook is recovering from the privacy concerns related to Cambridge Analytica, including threat of lawsuit from one UK group, is now even more interested in your data. Facebook is after your financial data: ...Facebook already has smaller agreements with financial institutions, including PayPal and American Express, that allow users to do things such - [Where Communication Fails](https://knowprose.com/2018/08/where-communication-fails/) - It amazes me how people make things more difficult through communication, enough so that sometimes I wonder if there is a special group of us that talks to ourselves for lack of anyone else receiving on the other end. Exhibit A. Last year, here in Trinidad and Tobago, someone asked me to be a reference - [Much Ado About Russia.](https://knowprose.com/2018/08/much-ado-about-russia/) - It seems like every time I open some social media site, someone's posting about Russia. About how they allegedly influenced the U.S. Elections, about who in the Trump Administration passed notes to someone in Russia, and so on and so forth. That's all I know, that's all I'm going to know, and realistically, I don't - [How many photocopies of ID, T&T?](https://knowprose.com/2018/08/how-many-photocopies-of-id-tt/) - Everywhere I go these days in Trinidad and Tobago, it seems someone wants to photocopy two forms of my identification. My bank has multiple copies. Lawyers have multiple copies. The government has multiple copies - and guess who issues identification? Water (WASA), Electricity (T&TEC)... the list goes on. And everywhere that there are photocopies of - [Technology and Mediation](https://knowprose.com/2018/08/technology-and-mediation/) - As I mentioned before, I recently took a level 1 mediation course and in doing that, I began looking at many things through a new lens. It's a process, and since it's my life, much of what I've looked at relates to technology. Looking through such a lens, though, reveals a mess. Nature, Tech and - [Mediation, Media, Social Media, Journalism](https://knowprose.com/2018/07/mediation-media-social-media-journalism/) - We use language and communication so much that sometimes we take it for granted. 'Media', 'mediation' - when we look at these words, it's all but impossible to note the exact first 5 letters. This is no coincidence. They both derive from the noun, 'medium'. Digging further gets you to a Proto-Indian root, '*medhyo', something - [On Mediation](https://knowprose.com/2018/07/on-mediation/) - I recently took the level one course on Mediation at the Conflict Resolution and Mediation Centre of Trinidad and Tobago. This by no means makes me an expert on mediation (yet?), but it makes me more informed than others. Conflict is something we deal with every day. Conflict is not something we're always good at - [Customer Service Post Mortem: Ugh](https://knowprose.com/2018/07/customer-service-post-mortem-ugh/) - I went to pick up a few boxes of contacts at the optometrist company I presently deal with. I won't write of the fact that they wanted me to pay more to have my prescription myself instead of being monopolized by them - a tactic abandoned in other countries. On this particular day, it was - [Of Digital Shadows And Digital Ghosts](https://knowprose.com/2018/07/of-digital-shadows-and-digital-ghosts/) - In writing about shadows and ghosts, it's hard not to draw the line to how we process data - the phrase big data gets tossed around a lot in this way. Data Science allows us to create constructs of data - interpreted and derived, insinuated and insulated, when in fact we know about as much - [Beyond The Box](https://knowprose.com/2018/07/beyond-the-box/) - I read a lot about what people have to write about innovation, particularly here in Trinidad and Tobago, as well as the larger Caribbean. It’s a global issue, of course, where Silicon Valley faces increased criticism for being divorced from reality. In Trinidad and Tobago, I’ve seen talk of innovation with a prominent and ubiquitous - [Shirts and P10s: Function vs. Form, Import Businesses vs. The Online Tax.](https://knowprose.com/2018/06/shirts-and-p10s-function-vs-form-import-businesses-vs-the-online-tax/) - I’ve been spending some time shopping here and there. I went looking for shirts, and found that the ones with designs I liked lacked pockets, and the ones with pockets were not to my liking. I don’t understand the war on pockets of all these imported shirts, particularly when everyone these days has a mobile - [Bricking Machines: The Microsoft April 2018 Update (1803) (Updated)](https://knowprose.com/2018/05/bricking-machines-the-microsoft-april-2018-update-1803/) - I'm leery of updates. Experience over the decades has taught me this, from my own code to those of others who worked with me, from using content management systems to operating systems. Updates can break things. This time, Microsoft broke my Dell laptop - one of my favored machines for dealing with the rest of - [The Networking of Truth And Falsehood: 'Fake News'](https://knowprose.com/2018/05/the-networking-of-truth-and-falsity-false-news/) - There is an incessant debate over truth right now, the same as there ever is, branded this time as 'fake news'. It has everyone mistrusting everyone, everything - everyone but the least ethically or cognitively competent, willful or not. It's the elephant on the chest of social media companies, traditional media companies fighting for business - [Paper vs. Digital: a personal perspective.](https://knowprose.com/2018/04/paper-vs-digital-a-personal-perspective/) - Someone asked about whether people preferred reading paper books or digital on Twitter, and I responded 'paper' with a brief and slightly inaccurate explanation. So I'll be less brief here and more accurate. This is, of course, my experience - and my opinion. When it comes to what I read, I rarely read novels these - [Wanting Things To Work.](https://knowprose.com/2018/04/wanting-things-to-work/) - The fun part of this article is that you can replace "Trinidad and Tobago" with just about every country I have lived in or visited and have it be understood. It's a global issue. It's been a long week for me here in Trinidad and Tobago, yet along the way I met kindred spirits of - [Google, War and Ethics.](https://knowprose.com/2018/04/google-war-and-ethics/) - When 3,000 employees send an email to Google's CEO about not wanting to be involved with warfare projects, it shows that there are at least 3,000 people who are willing to stand up for their own personal ethics. It also means that in this day and age, Google employees are paid enough to have the - [Facebook, Google, et al: It's Not The Data, It's The Context.](https://knowprose.com/2018/04/facebook-google-et-al-its-not-the-data-its-the-context/) - Dylan Curran recently published Are you ready? Here is all the data Facebook and Google have on you - an article which should open the eyes of anyone who uses Facebook or Google. It's a good article, and it shows how much data people give up freely - who doesn't have a Gmail account or - [Portable MariaDB and Python (USB drive)](https://knowprose.com/2018/03/portable-mariadb-and-python-usb-drive/) - I've got a few projects rotating through the front burners, and one of them involves setting up a MariaDB instantiation on a USB key or drive or whatever you want to call it. And I want Python, at least for development. The nomenclature goes out the door when there's more conflicted marketing than unconflicted engineering. There's - [Why I Never Cared About Certifications](https://knowprose.com/2018/03/why-i-never-cared-about-certifications/) - I have a special disdain for professional certifications in technology. Largely, they are indoctrinations designed to protect market-share. An example that leaps to mind is a lukewarm intellect I encountered who - to his credit - worked really hard, and probably still is a certified Microsoft SQL Server guy. When a solution at the company - [Running The Biostar Racing P1](https://knowprose.com/2018/03/running-the-biostar-p1/) - I had a problem. In my apartment here in South Oropouche, I had the need for a sort of media PC in the living room. Sometimes I want to kick back and write on my old Chromebook while watching Netflix or a streaming news/space service on YouTube. Sometimes I want to write from my dining - [We don't think the world is getting better. This is why we're not sure.](https://knowprose.com/2018/02/we-dont-think-the-world-is-getting-better-this-is-why-were-not-sure/) - I came across Max Roser's (Programme Director, Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford) post on the World Economic Forum through social media, and I didn't have the time to address some of the issues I saw when I posted it. There is something that had struck me as viscerally wrong about it. Now I know. - [Smartphone As Dashcam](https://knowprose.com/2018/02/smartphone-as-dashcam/) - This is not new. Plenty of people use their smartphones as dashcams, which I have now gotten into the habit of here in Trinidad and Tobago - mainly because there are a subset of drivers that take chances, and my vehicle has a pretty solid bull bar in front. For those that don't, or think - [Software Licensing and Life Cycle Limitations.](https://knowprose.com/2018/02/software-licensing-and-life-cycle-limitations/) - I ended up in a conversation related to software licensing over the last 12 hours (I did sleep for some of it) with someone doing some pretty nice work. And they hated the GPL license, which began a conversation. Where once I was a strong Free Software Foundation (FSF) proponent, I am not anymore - mainly - [The Flashing Blue Lights of Trinidad and Tobago](https://knowprose.com/2018/01/the-flashing-blue-lights-of-trinidad-and-tobago/) - One of the things that has bothered me over the years is the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service (TTPS) having their flashing blue lights on all the time. Be it simply being on patrol or running to Kentucky Fried Chicken for lunch, the lights are strobing, day or night. You can always tell when the - [On Foreign Exchange, Credit Cards and Trinidad and Tobago (2018)](https://knowprose.com/2018/01/on-foreign-exchange-credit-cards-and-trinidad-and-tobago-2018/) - Yesterday, at least one person in the media (Judy Kanhai) started circulating the raw press release from the present Minister of Finance in Trinidad and Tobago. You can click it and it will open in a new tab so you can read it more clearly. Personal Context and a Sincere Disclaimer I found this particularly - [On Trinidad and Tobago, Policing and Crime](https://knowprose.com/2018/01/on-trinidad-and-tobago-policing-and-crime/) - I'm no expert on Law Enforcement. I am, however, a lifelong student of systems with experience ranging from agriculture to medicine, business to the military, and of different cultures. I'm sure I'll aggravate some people with this, maybe these are the right people to be aggravated. It's difficult to live in Trinidad and Tobago and - [Net Neutrality, Competition and Target Blindness.](https://knowprose.com/2018/01/net-neutrality-competition-and-target-blindness/) - Yesterday I had the misfortune of attempting to have a conversation with someone who was certain that there was no problem with competition without net neutrality. Instead, I explored their perspective. The only thing I could come up with is that when some people speak of competition, they think of competition between Internet Service Providers - [Beyond Naughty Processors.](https://knowprose.com/2018/01/beyond-naughty-processors/) - The world is abuzz with stuff about the Intel bugs - so much so that Meltdown and Spectre are explained by xkcd better to the masses than most technical articles. It's as if the world woke up and saw a small bit of what can happen within computing systems and, unfortunately for Intel, gets branded with Intel. Did I - [Coding For Fun.](https://knowprose.com/2018/01/coding-for-fun/) - Here I am, waiting for the errant landlord to show up at 7 a.m. when it's now 8 a.m. (where is he? Who knows), to fix a breaker issue, when... suddenly... I think of something to code - not that I was looking anymore, but probably exactly because I wasn't looking anymore. It's an exercise, - [The Age of Dune](https://knowprose.com/2018/01/the-age-of-dune/) - We're in a strange age of Dune, metaphorically. If you haven't read the books or, for the reading impaired, the movie, you won't get the metaphor - you should go do either immediately and not return to the internet until you have. If you'll recall, the book was about Spice - and how the spice - [2018: Tech and Society](https://knowprose.com/2018/01/2018-tech-and-society/) - On the human meta level, it's pretty clear that robotics and AI will continue making inroads into our societies in ways that we aren't yet prepared for. Personally, it's amusing when what got me into software engineering for a living as a young man increasingly becomes a reality 2 decades later. In fact, it's the - [Google Chrome Update Allows Mute of Autoplay Videos - and More.](https://knowprose.com/2017/12/google-chrome-update-allows-mute-of-autoplay-videos-and-more/) - If you're a human, you probably have more than one tab open in your browser right now - and that means that sometime in the past, you had to hunt through tabs to find out which tab hid the video that the over-exuberant marketers hid in one of your tabs. Fear no more. In the - [Beyond Network Neutrality, and TATT](https://knowprose.com/2017/12/beyond-network-neutrality-and-tatt/) - Net neutrality is repealed, and while the long battle over it seems over, there’s still some hope for it. There’s been folly in conversations related to Network Neutrality and Over The Top Services (OTT). It limits the conversation to be about who owns the infrastructure and who uses the infrastructure - which is a good - [Understanding Frankensystems](https://knowprose.com/2017/12/understanding-frankensystems/) - When I was just a software engineer in the eyes of managers, I usually got tossed into undocumented complex systems that nobody could figure out easily, largely because they were... undocumented. What overwhelmed and/or intimidated others was exciting for me - exploring something new, understanding how it worked. I'd developed a toolset for exactly that, finding - [Linux Journal Ends.](https://knowprose.com/2017/12/linux-journal-ends/) - When I got the news that Linux Journal has ceased publication, I had to take a moment. I'd been published through them a few times in the early naughts, had worked for the parent company at LinuxGazette.com and A42.com, had met some of the coworkers over the distances and had hung out at Phil Hughes, - [Net Neutrality and Trinidad and Tobago](https://knowprose.com/2017/11/net-neutrality-and-trinidad-and-tobago/) - The global debate on Net Neutrality persists and the consequences are writ large for consumers everywhere. Yet, there's almost no interest in the Net Neutrality issues arising lately - I spent my time advocating for it to the uncaring masses who are more intent on other things that they believe are more important. It is - [Predicting Innovation](https://knowprose.com/2017/11/predicting-innovation/) - Innovation is something that has caught the fancy of businesses for some time, so of course anything that goes beyond the 'common wisdom' (which is typically neither) and the confusion with disruption is worth taking note of. Such is the case with the paper, "Dynamics on expanding spaces: modeling the emergence of novelties", by Vittorio Loreto, Vito - [Introspection (Writing)](https://knowprose.com/2017/11/introspection-writing/) - Reviewing the statistics between KnowProSE.com and RealityFragments.com has been a bit revealing - empirically. Between the two sites, I've done about 300 posts in the last year. KnowProSE.com has 27 followers and 50 likes (Wordpress) with roughly 5,000 views, averaging 2.5 visitors a day with 100 posts over a year. RealityFragments.com, on the other hand, - [Artificial Intelligences and Responsibility.](https://knowprose.com/2017/11/artificial-intelligences-and-responsibility/) - MIT Technology Review has a meandering article, "A.I Can Be Made Legally Responsible for It's Decisions". In it's own way, it tries to chart the territories of trade secrets and corporations, threading a needle that we may actually need to change to adapt to using Artificial Intelligence (AI). One of the things that surprises me - [The Chromebook That Will Not Die.](https://knowprose.com/2017/11/the-chromebook-that-will-not-die/) - I can't recall when exactly I got it - I think it was in 2013 - but the Acer Chromebook Model Q1VC I have will not die. Right now, as I type this, I'm on a beach in Trinidad - it has been a staple on trips anywhere. Small, light, and handles things like writing, as - [The Flooding Saga Of Mosquito Creek](https://knowprose.com/2017/11/the-flooding-saga-of-mosquito-creek/) - Mosquito Creek, in Southwestern Trinidad, could be a comedy of errors committed by a confederacy of dunces over decades. To locals who have to trek through it daily, it is much the same without the comedy. It has moved from drama to the mundane, a tribute to how things do not get done in Trinidad - [Techno-Rant 2017; Trinidad and Tobago](https://knowprose.com/2017/11/techno-rant-2017-trinidad-and-tobago/) - How Trinidad and Tobago adapts technology successfully to its betterment is interconnected throughout the private sector and public sector in ways that most people don’t seem to realize. Standing in a bookstore, searching for original minds on the latest ideas and thoughts, I noted the books on ‘Right Brain/Left Brain’ that have been made antiques - [It's Not Being Popular, It's Why.](https://knowprose.com/2017/11/its-not-being-popular-its-why/) - 'Popularity: Does it matter? Research says it does' is a dangerous and, to a degree, an irresponsible article by Time magazine - little more than an advertorial by Mitch Prinstein, who is of course selling his book. Good for him, I suppose. After all, it supports what many people believe, so it fits the criteria - [So Many Pies.](https://knowprose.com/2017/11/so-many-pies/) - People tend to categorize things by how many 'hats' one wears, or how many fingers you have in pies. In a world of specialization, I have specialized in not being a specialist - which, unfortunately, confuses people. Asked recently what I do for a living, I was caught off guard. Should I speak of having - [The Study Of What Others Do.](https://knowprose.com/2017/11/the-study-of-what-others-do/) - I hate having my picture taken. Over the years, I have found the best defense from cameras is to hold one. This has weakened in a day and age where every phone has a camera, and everyone wants to be seen with someone - but Mark Lyndersay needed a picture of me for TechNewsTT, where - [Humanoid Gets Citizenship: Odd.](https://knowprose.com/2017/10/humanoid-gets-citizenship-irony/) - If you think the world couldn't get any weirder, it just got ratcheted up. Saudi Arabia, the country where atheists are considered terrorists and women have less rights than in other countries, has made a humanoid artificial intelligence a citizen - the first humanoid AI citizen in the world. So, the question is, is Sophia - [A Flood of Failures: Beyond ODPM.](https://knowprose.com/2017/10/a-flood-of-failures-beyond-odpm/) - This isn't a technology post; however, it's a post about failed systems and tangible problems here in Trinidad and Tobago. There’s much that has been said about the ODPM, and having seen the press conference they suffered Trinidad and Tobago and the rest of the world with, I’ve decided not to throw them under the - [The Introverted Network](https://knowprose.com/2017/10/the-introverted-network/) - Hidden in one of his posts (Measuring your real net worth) John Hagel welcomed some thoughts: "...I would welcome advice and insight on how introverts (and others) can be more intentional about cultivating the kinds of personal networks that I’ve described above..." As a round peg that fits in many square holes, I do - [Deep Learning, Information Bottlenecks - and Osmosis.](https://knowprose.com/2017/10/deep-learning-information-bottlenecks-and-osmosis/) - I've experimented in the past with deep learning in a few different ways, coming up with my own thoughts on how things work and why they work. It was apparent to me when I stopped that in 2016 that I was missing something, and that I needed some distance between myself and the topic at - [Quick Note To Admin For mpac.gov.tt](https://knowprose.com/2017/08/quick-note-to-admin-for-mpac-gov-tt/) - It's apparent you're running Drupal, though I'm uncertain which version. As a government website, you should probably be concerned about SEO and such matters. I was glad to see clean urls, but by installing the PathAuto module, you'll do better in search results and have more meaningful urls. You might also want to check out - [Bureaucratese](https://knowprose.com/2017/08/bureaucratese/) - Bureaucracy has it's own language; Bureaucratese. Over the course of my lifetime, I have learned to translate it on the fly - but apparently this skill is one very few have. In this entry, I will cover a few different words and what they actually mean. This post will be updated as I things jar - [Done.](https://knowprose.com/2017/08/done/) - I don't miss it. There was a time that it didn't seem like I ever could. It was all I did. Coding, designing, architecting, playing with new languages and frameworks - it was great. I spent hours upon hours getting good at things that were, in the end, just passing fads. Passing fads with 'benefits', - [The Best Programming Language To Know - Ever.](https://knowprose.com/2017/08/the-best-programming-language-to-know-ever/) - Amongst geeks, invariably, the topic comes up eventually - it's sort of like mentioning Hitler on the Internet. The best programming language. The best framework. The best... whatever. I even caught myself getting into a similar discussion recently about the best programming language to learn with, and being drawn into discussion. It shouldn't even be - [Technology vs. Bureaucracy: a T&TEC Connection](https://knowprose.com/2017/08/technology-vs-bureaucracy-a-ttec-connection/) - One of the less fun things I get to do in dealing with land ownership is assisting people in getting electrical connections from the Trinidad and Tobago Electricity Commission (T&TEC). The legitimate way of doing this is the land owner giving permission for the connection to the person getting the connection. The why of people - [For Those Entering Tech.](https://knowprose.com/2017/07/for-those-entering-tech/) - I had a recent Skype conversation with someone working at a company that I had done some contract work for. I suppose I went in knowing how it would go and for a bit of closure - it was the same old story. Contractor does work for a company, contractor does what was required faster - [Identifying The End of the SDLC (2015)](https://knowprose.com/2017/07/identifying-the-end-of-the-sdlc-2015/) - Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it. - Haruki Murakami Software projects die. Call it retirement, 'end', whatever you wish - they die. In a perfect world, this is planned for - expected - understood. In the real world, many software projects were never established formally and have to be - [Economy and Collaboration (2015)](https://knowprose.com/2017/07/economy-and-collaboration-2015/) - Colin Shaw's post on LinkedIn, "Collaboration Is Dead: Long Live Symbiosis", indirectly addresses one of the key problems with understanding Open Source and Free Software, not to mention Open Content. Sure, with Free Software/Open Source and Open Content there is collaboration - but if you look at the most successful projects, you'll find one major - [Technology And Arts](https://knowprose.com/2017/07/technology-and-arts/) - People in technology of my era and later are strange creatures that delve into the depths of understanding the cold and relentless logic of systems that they create and maintain. We see the same in other fields, in Law, in Medicine, Accounting and so many others. Today, as Lessig wrote, 'Code is Law', and Law - [Self-Defeating Social Media](https://knowprose.com/2017/06/self-defeating-social-media/) - Activism is very trendy on social media and in social networks. Someone in your network, I'm sure, is intent on saving something - be it trees, wildlife, the environment, some poor misunderstood politician, or something else. Everyone. It gets to be too much and borders on defamation (or jumps solidly on it) at times. For - [If Only.](https://knowprose.com/2017/06/if-only/) - I'm reading the latest stuff on NOAA's Tropical Cyclone 2 Updates (06182017), and I'm remembering some things. If only there was someone who had dealt with emergency communications and worked toward developing a system where alerts could be sent to people's mobile phones. If only he had a military medical background with an idea of - [A Curmudgeon's Guide to Social Media](https://knowprose.com/2017/06/a-curmudgeons-guide-to-social-media/) - I used to be heavily involved in social media; some might think I still am when I've simply become more efficient and have sculpted my networks. In all, though, I rate myself a curmudgeon - a 'a bad-tempered, difficult, cantankerous person.' This is not to say that I am a curmudgeon, but I imagine that - [Public Comment on the Trinidad and Tobago CyberCrime Bill, 2017.](https://knowprose.com/2017/06/public-comment-on-the-trinidad-and-tobago-cybercrime-bill-2017/) - I like the spirit of the bill. My own personal background in technology is public knowledge; my LinkedIn profile will demonstrate that I have worked with companies that have been sensitive to 'cybercrime'. As an author on technology (virtual worlds and more), as someone who has earned media mention (BBC, New York Times), as someone - [The Property Tax of Trinidad and Tobago: Privacy](https://knowprose.com/2017/05/the-property-tax-of-trinidad-and-tobago-privacy/) - With all the media coverage on the new (2017) Property Tax here in Trinidad and Tobago, it's hard to pick one article out of all of them to get a cohesive idea of what it is. In fact, most of the articles I've seen have been devoid of facts and full of opinions - let's - [The Human Factor: Tangible Results](https://knowprose.com/2017/05/the-human-factor-tangible-results/) - One of the issues I faced across the decades of my professional and private technology endeavors has been, simply put, the amount of intangible there was. A visit from my father in the late 1990s saw him proud of what I was accomplishing, but he had really little idea of what I was doing. He - [On Software Cost Estimation](https://knowprose.com/2017/05/on-software-cost-estimation/) - A recent video had me considering the problems of software engineering cost estimation - something that has plagued software engineering. It has also plagued people who think software engineering is just coding because, frankly, they're idiots. Since I'm out of the industry - by my choice and on my terms - I can now tackle - [Speaking In Tongues To Recruiters.](https://knowprose.com/2017/05/speaking-in-tongues-to-recruiters/) - Recruiters still reach out to me. To be fair, my digital shadow is still on numerous job sites, and I should endeavor to clean that up so that I no longer get their emails, but even where it is cleaned up I still get recruiters contacting me. You see, despite what you might see as - [Tech, Bureaucracy, and the Humans](https://knowprose.com/2017/04/tech-bureaucracy-and-the-humans/) - In my sojourns, I came across someone who had worked with Social Services in Siparia, Trinidad and Tobago, and took the opportunity to hear some of their experiences. In my world, I connect with people of all types in society, and there is much to be learned from that. He tells me an old woman - [A Few Thoughts on the techAgri Expo 2017](https://knowprose.com/2017/03/a-few-thoughts-on-the-techagri-expo-2017/) - Given my return to Trinidad and Tobago, which my last post gave some context to, and the fact that I own agricultural land in Trinidad and Tobago, I went to the UWI techAgri Expo armed with my decades of experience as a software engineer, years of experience dealing with land, and my own trials and tribulations - [A Walk Down High Street.](https://knowprose.com/2017/03/a-walk-down-high-street/) - It was a walk to see what had changed, to see if I could get a few things I needed. It was a walk to reconnect me with something that I felt I should reconnect with. My feet had pummeled there throughout the 1980s, when I often wore the Presentation College uniform. It was where - [Eschewing the Networks Of Noise](https://knowprose.com/2017/03/eschewing-the-networks-of-noise/) - On one side is the gigantic internet, a miracle of fine articulation, which turns out the tabloid newspaper: on the other side are the contents of the tabloid itself, symbolically recording the most crude and elementary states of emotion. I wish that I had written that but I didn't. I simply switched 'printing press' with - [The TechStew](https://knowprose.com/2017/03/the-techstew/) - I've had some time away from working on Other People's Problems (OPP) and I've spent it reading and studying things to see what comes next. It's an interesting exercise in futility because of one main thing that I call TechStew. Technology is, in engineering speak, an open system. Many of the business concepts around technology - [The Coding Precarity](https://knowprose.com/2017/03/the-coding-precarity/) - There's a brave new world coming, and it's something I've been considering for the past few years. As artificial intelligence begins writing more and more code, and troubleshooting it, the women and men who have made their money speaking to machines are slowly joining the precariat. It's not a bad thing or a good thing. - [Reflect. Refract Toward The Future](https://knowprose.com/2017/02/reflect-refract-toward-the-future/) - I got it all wrong. This is not to say that I have regret, or that I'm disillusioned. It's more of the realization that I have suffered an illusion, and while I do not understand yet how I became illusioned, I understand that I have been. It started as a child, really. I grew up - [Apples and Orangutans.](https://knowprose.com/2016/12/apples-and-orangutans/) - There was a discussion on Facebook about whether Apple products were worthy of the Enterprise, and there was some CTO of some company that processes data (just like everyone else) who put her title in front of her arguments - a nasty habit that diminishes a point - saying that Apple products are. When it - [Natural Language Processing, Health Records and the Developing World.](https://knowprose.com/2016/12/natural-language-processing-health-records-and-the-developing-world/) - The Veterans Administration will be using Natural Language Processing (NLP) for their medical records. It can be a powerful tool for searching for trends and getting the right people to the right treatments in a timely manner. That's a gross oversimplification. I know a bit about medical records1. I also happen to know quite a - [The AI Future On Mankind's Canvas](https://knowprose.com/2016/12/the-ai-future-on-mankinds-canvas/) - I met her and the young Brazilian woman on the flight from Miami to Orlando, this young Doctor who had an interview in Ocala. She was to drive across to Ocala, to the East, to see if she would get the job. She didn't look old enough to be a Doctor, but I've passed the - [Reinvention, Recursive.](https://knowprose.com/2016/12/reinvention-recursive/) - Warning: This is kind of long and is a rant-ble. The short of it is that I'm not on the market anymore. It's time to evolve again.1 No, this is not the announcement of some Silicon Valley startup that will make you better elbows to stick in your ears or, heaven forbid, something useful. No, - [Pulling My Photos From Flickr: Lessons Learned, More.](https://knowprose.com/2016/08/pulling-my-photos-from-flickr-lessons-learned-more/) - I wrote 'Risk and the Photo Cloud' as a first stab at identifying the problem I am having with mitigating risk with my Flickr stream as well as new needs I have from my collection of images. Bear in mind, this is a 'one off' problem for me, and I approached it as such. I was a bit - [The Why and Why Not Of Documentation](https://knowprose.com/2016/08/the-why-and-why-not-of-documentation/) - My core pet peeve of the last 10 years is the lack of documentation I've encountered with Software Projects. Sometimes it's as the consultant that's called in after someone already charged a lot of money for a substandard job. Sometimes it's that legacy project that sticks around through generations of developers who leave a company. - [How To Hire A Software Developer (2012)](https://knowprose.com/2016/07/how-to-hire-a-software-developer-2012/) - One of the fun and interesting things that has been cropping up with some job interviews for contracts and employment is the potential employer wanting to know whether someone is actually a good software developer or programmer. The trouble is that there are flaws in just about any way of doing it. Having been on - [On Quality In Production Code (2012)](https://knowprose.com/2016/07/on-quality-in-production-code-2012/) - So I've been playing StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm Once upon a time in a universe resembling this one at a younger stage, I dreamt of game programming. I don't think that there's any coder of my generation that didn't have similar aspirations - perhaps getting published in Compute! magazine, perhaps getting one's name - [3D Printers Disrupting Copyrights and Patents (2013)](https://knowprose.com/2016/07/3d-printers-disrupting-copyrights-and-patents/) - It wasn't too long ago that DIY 3D printers started making the news in geek circles. It captured the imagination of some and was largely ignored by others. I was somewhere in between until a few days ago. I've since slid somewhere closer to imagination, perhaps because someone printed a rotor from a Wankel engine - [Software Cost and Complexity (2013)](https://knowprose.com/2016/07/software-cost-and-complexity-2013/) - Two seemingly unrelated things popped up over the last few days. One of these things was an article along the lines of a discussion I had not too long ago with friend Yermo about. Simplicity in software design. From Reducing Complexity: The Next Software Imperative: ...And that should be the goal of all developers to - [Nature and Data Structures (2013)](https://knowprose.com/2016/07/nature-and-data-structures-2013/) - I haven't written much of late as I moved to Florida last week and have been busy networking, job hunting, writing about the journey and taking pictures. I'll be writing more often. With the recent return to Florida, I've clearly been working on finding work amongst other things. I've also been enjoying the flora and - [UX and SaaS (2013)](https://knowprose.com/2016/07/ux-and-saas-2013/) - It's old news that Flickr has updated its site. It's old news that thousands of users don't like it. After a solid week of using it I have to say that I don't understand why people are griping so much. This last update really works for me. I realize in the end that I may - [Language And Tech (2014)](https://knowprose.com/2016/07/language-and-tech-2014/) - It's official, for better or worse: 'Tweet' is now recognized in the Oxford dictionary despite breaking at least one OED rule: It's not 10 years old yet. 'Big Data' also made it in, as did 'crowdsourcing', 'e-reader', 'mouseover' and 'redirect' (new context). There's a better writeup in the June 2013 update of the Oxford English - [Internet Governance (2014)](https://knowprose.com/2016/07/internet-governance-2014/) - The continued battle over who should police, or better, govern the Internet continues (BBC). It's nothing new, really - I've been active in Internet Governance discussions since about 2003 when the first World Summit on Information Society was held - I was even a nominee to go. Since then I've participated in active discussions regarding - [Code Responsibly (2015)](https://knowprose.com/2016/07/code-responsibly-2015/) - We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works. - Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt More often than not I've had to deal with projects where I sincerely wondered whether salespeople and upper management - those that charge admission for the voyeuristic tendencies of the public in relation - [Imagination, Creativity, Innovation (2015)](https://knowprose.com/2016/07/imagination-creativity-innovation-2015/) - Imagination. Creativity. Innovation. Powerful words that have become cheapened as buzzwords, falsely attributed to some and sometimes never attributed to the deserving. I've been accused of all 3 at different points in my life and it's not a brag I make - most of the time it has seemed a curse. In fact, the thing - [Getting Out of Firefighting Mode (2015)](https://knowprose.com/2016/07/getting-out-of-firefighting-mode-2015/) - If Prometheus was worthy of the wrath of Heaven for kindling the first fire upon earth, how ought all the Gods honor the men who make it their professional business to put it out? - John Godrey Saxe Sooner or later any seasoned software developer, programmer or project manager finds themselves in firefighting mode - - [Exploring Lunar Code](https://knowprose.com/2016/07/exploring-lunar-code/) - Last week I'd found this article about the Apollo 11 code being on Github, and I took a look beyond what the article mentions. The code on GitHub is written for the Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC) - and Margaret Hamilton, at right, was the Director for the development of that code. In fact, that's a - [The Limits of Open Data and Big Data](https://knowprose.com/2016/07/the-limits-of-open-data-and-big-data/) - A couple of days ago, one of the many political memes rolling around was how many police shootings there were under different presidencies. People were, of course, spewing rhetoric on the number of lethal shootings there were between one administration in the 1980s and one in the present. I'm being obtuse because this is not - [Disruptive vs. Sustainable](https://knowprose.com/2016/07/disruptive-vs-sustainable/) - It has been driving me a little nuts over the last few years with all the drivel posts on 'disruptive' this and 'disruptive' that, particularly when 'sustainable' was the catch-phrase from a few years ago that still lingers doubtfully in the verbage of non-profits. In fact, I tend to gloss over 'disruptive' these days when - [Writing and Tech Documentation.](https://knowprose.com/2016/07/writing-and-tech-documentation/) - The tough part about good documentation is that everything has to make sense. All the stuff has to 'line up' along the user stories for the use of the documentation. There's the high level story and the lower level stories that make the high level story work - and those same low level stories can - [Crisis Informatics](https://knowprose.com/2016/07/disaster-informatics/) - People who have known me over the years know I've always had a passion for responding to disasters. I can't tell you why it is that when most people are running away, I have a tendency to run in - something I did before I became a Navy Corpsman (and learned how to do better - [Better Mousetraps.](https://knowprose.com/2016/07/better-mousetraps/) - In 'Solving All The Wrong Problems', Allison Arief tackles something that has been bothering me for some time: ...We are overloaded daily with new discoveries, patents and inventions all promising a better life, but that better life has not been forthcoming for most. In fact, the bulk of the above list targets a very specific - [On Diversity Training](https://knowprose.com/2016/06/on-diversity-training/) - Diversity training has recently become a topic of conversation again, mainly because a Harvard Business Review published, "Why Diversity Programs Fail". I have my own thoughts on diversity programs as an INTJ third culture kid and as a multicultural. Here's a good quote from the above-mentioned article (emphasis mine): ...Despite a few new bells and - [An Example of Bad UX: Amazon Gaming Desktops](https://knowprose.com/2016/05/an-example-of-bad-ux-amazon-gaming-desktops/) - Here's a quick example of bad user experience: Amazon Gaming Desktops. There's no way to select the processor you would like to filter by. Gamers would want to do that. - [The Future Of Technology and Society (May 2016)](https://knowprose.com/2016/05/the-future-of-technology-and-society-may-2016/) - If you're one of those who likes tl;dr, skip this post and find a tweet to read. It has been bothering me. There are a bunch of very positive articles out there that do not touch on the problems we face in technology. What I mean by this is that, since the early 1980s, I - [Trains, Talent and Tech](https://knowprose.com/2016/04/trains-talent-and-tech/) - Wherever you are, what is happening with the infrastructure is always important for personal reasons - and also for professional reasons. For me right now, that means New Smyrna Beach here in Florida and, therefore, Volusia County. In this case, I was having a conversation on Tom Laputka's post about SunRail getting to Deland. Tom's - [The Reason Why Your Tech Employees Are Leaving](https://knowprose.com/2016/04/the-reason-why-your-tech-employees-are-leaving/) - There's a bazillion articles out there on employee retention the last time I stopped counting. Tech employees are slightly different. Without further ado: 1: They're Unhappy. Tada. This is why people leave. Tech folk are a bit like cats, and herding cats is not an easy task. People want different things. If you don't know - [Evolution: Process Trumps All](https://knowprose.com/2016/04/evolution-process-trumps-all/) - Once upon a time, software was sold on disks that were actually floppy. They were encased in boxes, with user manuals. Then the disks were no longer floppy, but they were called floppy as a sacrifice to the Gods of Inaccuracy. Then the Internet came along, and you could buy the boxes over the Internet. - [The Long, Dark Tea Time Of The Career](https://knowprose.com/2016/04/the-long-dark-tea-time-of-the-career/) - People don't write about this stuff. I decided I will. Without going into the details, I left the last job after a resignation, taking it back, and after realizing it was the same thing, resigning more efficiently. It's not a bad company. It wasn't good for me. Let's leave that where it is. I had - [HowTo: Twitter Header Size 2016](https://knowprose.com/2016/04/howto-twitter-header-size-2016/) - In the past, for Twitter, I just tossed one of my many beach sunrise photos at it and let it do it's thing. This time, I didn't. Yesterday I made the image on the right. There was a meme going around, and I had this picture of a North American Osprey in the forefront of - [6 Things To Answer Before Posting You Need A Website](https://knowprose.com/2016/04/6-things-to-answer-before-posting-you-need-a-website/) - I don't want to do your website. I'm posting this because it bugs me. I'm going to tell you what so many people are doing wrong on websites like Upwork, Thumbtack and others when it comes to, "I need a website done" postings. These are good sites, and if you need something done, they're pretty - [Getting Past the Mystery of MVC](https://knowprose.com/2016/04/getting-past-the-mystery-of-mvc/) - One way for Software Engineers/Developers/Programmers to impress the hell out of Managers, Directors and Executives is to confidently shoot acronyms at them in rapid fire. Dilbert is rich with this; since the late 90s I've sometimes tossed 'EIEIO' into the mix when I heard it being abused. One of these acronyms is MVC. It's really - [The Confusion On DevOps](https://knowprose.com/2016/04/the-confusion-on-devops/) - I was in an interview with a candidate for a Software Engineer some time ago. We had the usual suspects at the table and me, the unusual one at the interview. I'd read the guy's resume. He claimed some game programming, and he also claimed to have experience with the full SDLC with both the - [Avoiding Complexity In The Software Process](https://knowprose.com/2016/04/avoiding-complexity-in-the-software-process/) - One of the greatest enemies of software is complexity, since it invariably leads to Software Entropy. It increases the cost of producing software. The good news is that we've gotten better over the decades at assuring best practices steer away from complexity - but sometimes people who implement the software processes themselves do not understand - [Know Your Environment: Oh Tay](https://knowprose.com/2016/03/know-your-environment-oh-tay/) - You may remember - it happened only last week - that Microsoft's Tay got shut down for being a jerk. The commentators already have speculated - and in the broad strokes properly, in my opinion - that this is because people were jerks. Tay- which, from what I saw, was pretty much a simple ELIZA - [The Future Is Not The Enterprise You Know](https://knowprose.com/2016/03/the-future-is-not-the-enterprise-you-know/) - Story time. When I was in Georgetown, Guyana in 20051, I snapped that picture of the television in my room. People called in to the station to relay messages to expatriates in New York so that they wouldn't incur the cost of a phone call from the local phone company. In the developed world, or - [What Society Wants.](https://knowprose.com/2016/02/what-society-wants/) - Since I'm writing about technology related things, it makes sense that I talk a little about society. After all, technology is a tool that society uses for a variety of things - from million dollar lawsuits over flatulence based applications to 'sex beds' in Second Life having copyright issues to... oh, things that very few - [Apple vs. FBI: Hedgehog Factor](https://knowprose.com/2016/02/hedgehog-factor/) - On the old site, I wrote quite a bit about the Hedgehog's Dilemma and how it applied to social media. I didn't write about my own experiments with code, what I found, etc. - and that's because I didn't fully understand what I found. I still don't. But I think it's appropriate to bring it - [About 2 months of Wordpress.com](https://knowprose.com/2016/02/about-2-months-of-wordpress-com/) - So, I switched from running my own Drupal site, managed over decades, lost more than once (because of hosts and their odd way of doing things). I switched over to here on Wordpress.com. Granted, I don't get to look under the hood. But I don't want to look under the hood. I know what's there - [SunTechRamble: Liability And Technology](https://knowprose.com/2016/02/suntechramble-liability-and-technology/) - The really interesting thing that happened this week relates to the regulation of a computer system as a driver (at least in some circumstances). It means that computer systems are gaining 'privileges' that were formerly only for humans. It was bound to happen sooner or later, but admittedly I blinked when I saw it. Google's - [Did We Stop Dreaming of Technology?](https://knowprose.com/2016/02/did-we-stop-dreaming-of-technology/) - It seems we've stopped dreaming of technology. It's something that we just kind of expect, the constant improvement of what we can do with what we have. Technology has become so common place that it's boring, and access to it is a necessity. Mundane and addictive. A mother has to convince her neighbor to lock - [So You Think Documentation Sucks.](https://knowprose.com/2016/02/so-you-think-documentation-sucks/) - I had a few conversations today involving documentation in email and otherwise. One was griping about someone else not writing documentation. I had someone saying developers don't like to document, which is a fair statement, but it's like saying that they don't like holding heavy bricks over their naked feet. That's the equivalent, and if you've - [SunTechRamble: Right to Repair and Modify](https://knowprose.com/2016/02/suntechramble-right-to-repair-and-modify/) - There's a new advocacy group lobbying for the right to repair everything. It's not so odd that I found this the same week that Apple will brick (make useless) your phone if you get non-Apple repairs. It's not a coincidence. There's a quickening. Just recently, General Motors (GM) told consumers that they don't own their - [Simulators to rival the world.](https://knowprose.com/2016/02/simulators-to-rival-the-world/) - It seemed only proper that we build simulators to rival the world. We were doing so poorly in the real world, there was a certain sense to building a simulator to help train us about it. To allow us to get better at it. Suddenly, we find out that in building such simulators, we might - [The Sunday Tech Ramble (Jan 31, 2016)](https://knowprose.com/2016/02/the-sunday-tech-ramble-jan-31-2016/) - I've set a high bar for myself - to come up with an interesting Tech Ramble every Sunday to force me to a schedule and a focus. We'll see how long it lasts. This week, I've been in an introspective mood. It is necessarily nostalgic and is a focus until I sort out some choices - [The Pitter Patter of Digital Footprints](https://knowprose.com/2016/01/the-pitter-patter-of-digital-footprints/) - Anything you have ever done online is a part of your digital footprint. The other part of your digital footprint is what other people and entities have determined your about you. Some use this information to predict what you're going to do even when you don't know you're going to do it. That's fairly benign - [Social Networks Don't Make Sense To You?](https://knowprose.com/2016/01/social-networks-dont-make-sense-to-you/) - I was sitting by myself eating lunch, with only my Kindle as company, when I heard from a voice from another table say that they didn't understand how to use LinkedIn. A few other people agreed. One or two shook their heads in not-so-mock consternation. Having overheard this group before - beware solitary people with - [On Innovation (Part n)](https://knowprose.com/2016/01/on-innovation-part-n/) - Innovation is one of my favorite topics, but it's one I don't write about as often as I'd like to because... well, I write code and like everyone else who writes code, I have a boss who needs me to do more stuff, and so I don't get to think about as much innovation as - [Should You Do What You Love?](https://knowprose.com/2016/01/should-you-do-what-you-love/) - So I was thinking of the possible dread irony of living most of our finite lives doing what we love, and then I realized it's not an irony. Whether we're happy with our time on Earth is appropriate, and 'wasting' time on it is not a life wastedThe irony is that I even thought it - [Quality And Schedule](https://knowprose.com/2016/01/quality-and-schedule/) - One of the most insidious things we deal with every day is software rushed out before it's ready - a point brought forward yet again in, 'Why I'd Rather Wait Months For The Perfect Game Than Have A Rushed Disaster'. It's not just games. It's the app on your phone. It's the software in the - [Buying the Future - What are we buying?](https://knowprose.com/2016/01/buying-the-future-what-are-we-buying/) - A while back, I wrote about the Tyranny of an Inefficient Skynet. I found the thought of a Skynet that is buggy and makes a lot of mistakes a bit scarily amusing. We project our logic onto what we build and we almost always imprint at least some of our irrational behavior on it. Software - [How I Chose the Pine64](https://knowprose.com/2016/01/how-i-chose-the-pine64/) - It's no secret that I've backed the Pine64. I've waxed geek about that already. But why did I choose this platform for the clustering I have in mind? I had been looking for the next personal project's hardware for about a month after taking a few months to decide what I actually wanted to do - [The Internet of Trivial And Big Data](https://knowprose.com/2016/01/the-internet-of-trivial-and-big-data/) - Sanjay points out some of the issues related to the Internet of Things. Myself? I've been mocking it for some time because I remember the whole 'Web2.0' fad. What is the Internet of things other than Web3.0? And like Web2.0, most of it is crap. Complete, utterly useless, crap. It comes disguised as useful, like - [2015 Tech Notes](https://knowprose.com/2016/01/2015-tech-notes/) - So, 2015. As far as technology, a few cool things leap to my mind. - [Play In Work](https://knowprose.com/2015/12/play-in-work/) - So, once upon I worked at this massive corporation with a name known worldwide. It started with a big red H. Things were going well. I loved going to work - of course, there were sucky days too, but I loved going to work. I got to work on really cool problems. I was appreciated. I got to sit down with great minds and learn from them, and really, that's what I enjoy - learning stuff. It was like playing. In fact, I played with problems. Sure, I had to apply the stuff I learned, but that's learning too - from theory to practical. And I had a manager who let me do that, and I thrived. Granted, there were days when middle-management and upper-management had frowns, but they smiled more than they frowned and we understood each other. Then, we got bought out and the 'restructuring' happened. So I got a knew boss, aptly named Rex. 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