Skip to main content
tdro

Another wandering soul whispering into the void. If you are looking for my blog you are in the wrong place. The profile and header pictures are brought to you by cdd20.

tdro micro.thedroneely.com view
  • Markdown Plaintext Embed Permalink
  • 122/50 words 41s read

    I’ve gotten used to hearing a certain phrase. “You can’t trust the ” to not make mistakes. That’s how you know; they kind of did it. Imagine there’s a box and that box is orange.

    Someone takes that orange box, calls it a black box, declares that orange is the new black, points to another orange box and tells you to open up that black box. Can you … no questions asked? If so, then you might have mathematical powers (or color blindness).

    I was thinking the other day that when I first saw , my initial question was, “Why is everything not important?” And, I was told that’s not (not) important. Shared abstractions; they drive on parkways and park on driveways.

    #musings
    tdro

    Another wandering soul whispering into the void. If you are looking for my blog you are in the wrong place. The profile and header pictures are brought to you by cdd20.

    tdro micro.thedroneely.com view
  • Markdown Plaintext Embed Permalink
  • 31/50 words 10s read

    I unexpectedly saw an amazing game programmed in Scratch today. I was never that good but they still teach Scratch around these parts. “I programmed this from Scratch” never gets old.

    #musings
    tdro

    Another wandering soul whispering into the void. If you are looking for my blog you are in the wrong place. The profile and header pictures are brought to you by cdd20.

    tdro micro.thedroneely.com view
  • Markdown Plaintext Embed Permalink
  • 63/50 words 21s read

    They say you can’t have virality without context collapse. There are times when I stumble upon stuff online that I kind of know the behind the scenes on.

    Then I remember (again) that virality is often simpler than you’d think. One only has but to master the art of continually collapsing the context. It begins where the fates align and the contexts collide.

    #musings
    tdro

    Another wandering soul whispering into the void. If you are looking for my blog you are in the wrong place. The profile and header pictures are brought to you by cdd20.

    tdro micro.thedroneely.com view
  • Markdown Plaintext Embed Permalink
  • 72/50 words 24s read

    There used to be spelling and grammar bots roaming around. They’d read your entire blog and mail in the misspelt words. If you replied, someone would respond to demo their ultimate proof reading solution.

    One of them was really bothered by referer. I pointed out once that it was intensional and that came as a shocking revelation. Those bots were replaced by the swarm intelligence. Now everyone’s grammar and spelling is perfection.

    #musings
    tdro

    Another wandering soul whispering into the void. If you are looking for my blog you are in the wrong place. The profile and header pictures are brought to you by cdd20.

    tdro micro.thedroneely.com view
  • Markdown Plaintext Embed Permalink
  • 26/50 words 9s read

    I don’t think I’ll ever get used to speculative ambiguity. Let’s hope that blowing up rockets over the Caribbean never achieves normalization of the 3rd form.

    #musings
    tdro

    Another wandering soul whispering into the void. If you are looking for my blog you are in the wrong place. The profile and header pictures are brought to you by cdd20.

    tdro micro.thedroneely.com view
  • Markdown Plaintext Embed Permalink
  • 39/50 words 13s read

    Any time someone asks if an online thing is fake or real;
    Instead of going for the all or nothing:

    1. Yes
    2. No

    There’s always the more amusing but empirical:

    1. There is as yet insufficient data for a meaningful answer.
    #musings
    tdro

    Another wandering soul whispering into the void. If you are looking for my blog you are in the wrong place. The profile and header pictures are brought to you by cdd20.

    tdro micro.thedroneely.com view
  • Markdown Plaintext Embed Permalink
  • 80/50 words 27s read

    Jargon is strangely funny out of context. I have a crude setup that de-jargons and disambiguates stuff, which causes those of you much more knowledgeable than me to ??? occasionally.

    Maybe the best kind of educational mischief looks just wrong enough to prompt an assisted investigation. I’ve surprisingly tricked quite a few people into understanding web feeds.

    #lists #musings
    tdro

    Another wandering soul whispering into the void. If you are looking for my blog you are in the wrong place. The profile and header pictures are brought to you by cdd20.

    tdro micro.thedroneely.com (edited) view
  • Markdown Plaintext Embed Permalink
  • 87/50 words 29s read

    I like wordplay. I helped someone with a conundrum recently. There’s a deep ambiguity where bimonthly = biweekly. The get it right/wrong on a flip of the (contextual) coin.

    Then I realized; bots are smarter but it’s complicated. It’s hard to generally distinguish its output. If that’s intelligence, then it has surpassed the average in general. Too easy?

    It’s like we’re testing our individualized general ignorance (if that’s a thing). In short; it excels at what you don’t know (yet). Apparently, I’m already an AI whisperer.

    #musings
    tdro

    Another wandering soul whispering into the void. If you are looking for my blog you are in the wrong place. The profile and header pictures are brought to you by cdd20.

    tdro micro.thedroneely.com view
  • Markdown Plaintext Embed Permalink
  • 80/50 words 27s read

    I know there were questions about my thoughts on . I think time-travelling back to the future is more interesting though. I wasn’t around, but it’s deja vu.

    Accessible programming is the theme but I wonder. I’ve met many people who can’t read (no joke).

    Maybe the next “big social transistor” scales to the nano (video) message (nm) or pico (from micro).

    “Titles and thumbnails” are exoteric. Who knows, perhaps “natural language programming” becomes the most esoteric of them all.

    #musings
    tdro

    Another wandering soul whispering into the void. If you are looking for my blog you are in the wrong place. The profile and header pictures are brought to you by cdd20.

    tdro micro.thedroneely.com view
  • Markdown Plaintext Embed Permalink
  • 36/50 words 12s read

    I read about the history and legacy of the Delta Clipper recently. It’s incredible how notability and the right people propels niche technology into popular culture. It “Fulton follies” onto the mainstream and amasses social proof.

    #musings

    Authors