July 2024 Catching Up!
July 2024 Catching Up
Happy July 25th everyone!
It’s been more than a month since I have posted anything. I wanted to share this one particular adventure I have had since my last post.
Once Again, Knocking on the “Doors
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Part 7: Meet Chris Sakell and Mai the Monkey
During the 73 years that I’ve been roaming this planet, I have had the good fortune of having been able to make very close friends and somehow managing to keep a few of them around. Although we have fun with …
Part 6: Claymore Alley
Part 6: Claymore Alley
The following war story was written in 1986, before I conducted a yearlong investigation to determine for myself, how the US originally got involved in Vietnam (see my blog post titled, “Part 7 of n Lest …
2024-06-21 AI Update!
2024-06-21 AI Update! This past week, OpenAI added a new member to their board of directors: former US Army general and NSA Director Paul Nakasone. Nakasone was the longest-serving leader of US Cybercom. Up to last January, OpenAI had a ban on adding any military and...
Part 5: A Tour of Pr’Line Mountain
Part 5: A Tour of Pr’Line Mountain
Pr’Line was unlike any military base I’d been to before. In fact, let me take you on a bit of a tour.
Our mountain site was approximately 25 clicks (kilometers) southeast of Dalat, …
The Information Universe (Part 4)
The Information Universe (Part 4)
Exploring Information as a Fundamental Property of the Universe
Hi Folks!
After a nice respite, I am ready to delve back into my philosophical meanderings, but I promise to write more about my Vietnam War …
The King is Dead! Long Live the King!: Inside the Power Struggle at OpenAI
The King is Dead! Long Live the King!: Inside the Power Struggle at OpenAI
[By now the only legitimate justification one could have for not knowing anything at all about artificial intelligence (AI) is if they lived completely off the …
Part 4: The Pr’Line Mountain Security Platoon
Part 4: The Pr’Line Mountain Security Platoon
I sure wish I could remember more about my time in Vietnam. I say that, although I’ve had three VA shrinks say that it’s probably for my own good that I have blocked …
2024-04-26 Conversations with Claude
2024-04-26 Conversations with Claude
A Genius In Your Pocket!
Full disclosure: I can’t claim to have come up with the title of this article by myself. I read it somewhere and honestly, the statement was made about the very near …
Part 3: Zero Week in Nam
Part 3: Zero Week in Nam It’s strange how some memories are so completely buried that no matter how hard you try, you can’t recall them. I’m sure the journey from Duluth after my final day of furlough to Long Binh, South Vietnam, had to have been somewhat interesting,...