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Putting the HAL in AI hallucination
‘In the dimly lit basements of IBM’s research labs back in the late 1960s, a team of engineers was secretly collaborating with Stanley Kubrick on his upcoming film, 2001: A Space Odyssey. The movie needed a villainous AI, and IBM, … Continue reading
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What is the Spring Equinox? Celebrations and Historical Insights
The spring equinox, also known as the vernal equinox, typically occurs on March 20, 21, or 22 in the Northern Hemisphere. In 2025, it happens to be today, March 20! This is the moment when the Earth’s axis is tilted … Continue reading
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History of “DOGE” and its lighthearted beginnings
The term “DOGE” as an acronym carries distinct meanings depending on context, with its most notable uses tied to both a popular cryptocurrency and a recently established U.S. government initiative. Here’s an explanation of its significance, including its history in … Continue reading
Upgrading the Hard Drives in my Synology DS413 NAS
I initially loaded my Synology DS413 Networked Attached Storage (NAS) device with (4) 1.5TB hard drives. They were drives that I’d pulled out of a server that I was decommissioning last year and I was having issues with other 1.5TB … Continue reading
SFW 50 Shades of Grey
50 Shades of Grey – the safe for work version
Re-Tasking the GPUs to Litecoin Mining
In my last post – Bitcoin Mining for Fun and (not much) Profit – I described my experiences with mining for Bitcoins using my (3) Radeon HD 7970 graphics cards. I ceased my GPU-based mining operations because even with my max … Continue reading
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Tagged Bitcoin Mining, GPU, Litecoin mining
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Bitcoin Mining for Fun and (not much) Profit
I’d like to share some of my experiences with Bitcoin “mining” for those who have asked about it. The two main sites that can give you a run-down on Bitcoins are the Wikipedia article on the Bitcoin Protocol and the … Continue reading
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Recovering Game Settings from your XBox post RROD
We went out to do some grocery shopping last night and came back to an upset young man. Apparently the XBox 360 that we’ve had for some 5-6 years finally bit the dust – posting an “E-74” error on the … Continue reading
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MIT Drone Maps Room in Real Time Using a Kinect
I’m totally digging the innovative uses of the Microsoft Kinect, with novel uses popping up every day. I also love the fact that my son, your daughter…pretty much anybody can start exploring and tinkering in this space because of this … Continue reading
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Tagged CSail, GPS, Kinect, MIT, UW
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Applying Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1 with WebPI
Last week Service Pack 1 for Visual Studio 2010 was released to the masses. There were just two ways to install it, either run the web installer which pulls down just the bits that you need to install for your … Continue reading
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Tagged IIS 7.5 Express, SQL CE 4, VS2010, Web Deployment, WebPI
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