Here’s a neat tip that may stop working eventually. If you have a difficult problem that you want answered or you need free r&d, then put an elaborate problem statement somewhere and say that artificial intelligence will never ever solve it. It works almost every time.

I’ve had my tech news feeds filtered into /dev/null for a while now. I temporarily unmuted the agent keyword and did I learn more about the “rogue” agents operating illegally in The Bahamas? Yes, that and the coming apocalypse!

Mainstream tech news is not worth the time (in my opinion). But, maybe it’s a fun waste of time? Fun fact/joke: Newton predicted that the world would definitely not end before 2060 (a true pessoptimist).

For anyone still wondering, I just read the tea leaves. As far as I’m concerned, insiders don’t predict the future, they just tell you what they know or are about to do (all things being equal). In fact, if you check all mentions of the word insider, they’re mostly bang on, and I definitely didn’t get them all!

Ever notice that at the right angle and distance 777 can look like three question marks??? There’s also a thing called the glottal stop, and then there’s Squamish, the language.

I came across an awesome comparison of older/newer text extraction methods while looking for something totally unrelated.