Conference speaker; journalist & j-school instructor; engineering tech business analyst; cryptonerd; D.Min student. Run faster, the future won't wait.

Tonasket, Washington USA
Joined June 2008
My new book "AI-Driven Trends Research with Grok" is now available from Amazon in Kindle and paperback at rebrand.ly/Grok4Trends. Grok has a special advantage when it comes to researching trends and there is no guide anywhere on how to do this. Until now. #grok #trends
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Ads for bare metal cloud service at $5/month are reaching me. That tells me neocloud providers are headed into stormy weather.
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I'm doing a little experiment on Medium. A variety of AI models and agents are writing a short story on “The Death of Microsoft“ Here's Version 1: medium.com/@rsnatwork/the-de…
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This ⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️ Every Time. Vote Blue. 💙💙💙
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The optimistic point of view, Mariners Fan Edition: The Seattle Pilots are 2-0 in the World Series.
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AI agents are starting to orchestrate engineering workflows across CAD, simulation, optimization and verification. The orchestration layer becomes a major competitive battleground: whoever controls it chooses the tools and data. news.siemens.com/uk-ua/sieme…
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If you need to see a proctologist, bettter book the appointment soon. After January 2, 2027 they will all be fully booked.
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Anybody got an Instinct invite you'll share?
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Over the years many people have told me they think I am odd, but can't quite put their finger on why. After much reflection, I have decided to come out. I am proud to say in public for the first time, I am Lanthanite.
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Navi Pillay and Bill Gates: Twins separated at birth? #nobel_peace #billgates #NaviPillay
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This week's best piece of advice from an LLM: "Always verify citations yourself—free tiers still hallucinate references." #AI #hallucination #research
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Just watched the last episode of Ted Lasso Season 4. Makes me want to go bald.
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Can't stop watching this @TheGavinFreeman
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Trump in 2015: I would not be throwing Xi Jinping a dinner. I would get him a McDonald's hamburger and say 'we have to get down to work.' We're giving him a state dinner and what he has done is sucked all of our jobs.
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World Models are NOT world simulators, Digital Twins, generative models, or Video Generation Systems. -- @yLeCun World Models are a framework for computational imaginative generation. -- Me
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Yann LeCun: we are not going to get human-level intelligence or AGI by just scaling LLMs. “There’s absolutely no way in hell.” “The idea that we’re gonna have a country of geniuses in a data center, that’s complete BS.” “It may feel like you have a PhD sitting next to you.” “But it’s not a PhD.” “It’s a system with gigantic memory and retrieval ability, not one that can invent solutions to new problems.”
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In the past week Trump has banned free press, launched state-run media, attacked the international criminal court, and literally rolled out the red carpet for a communist. Trump is the communist.
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ST:SNW 4:10 makes up for all the sillyness of the last few episodes.
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You know it's a bad day when you discover (with AI help) 804,690 "skg_events" files in the My Files root directory.
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