Engaging Life with Courage and Intelligence
The good news is that we will not need to file our tax returns within a few years. That should make former Speaker Paul Ryan happy! The bad news is that a little-known corporation recently energized by Trump and DOGE will know everything about you, and thus, there will be no reason to report to…
The following is an example of a future Instagram Reel. Young folks know about reels, but few of us old people do. This reel is an attempt to succinctly point out the benefits of objectivity in pursuing and transmitting facts and the truth. The goal of any reel is to make an essential point in…
This day might not be the best day to ask how humans became so smart. Americans, in particular, seem to be going in the opposite direction, regressing into a bottomless pit of ignorance and idiocy. However, the human race, as a whole, has become the intellectual masters of Earth. Other animals and even plants have…
Elon Musk and his Tesla design team have become adamantly against using radar sensors or LIDAR to allow a Tesla to drive independently. To quote Elon, “LIDAR is fricking, expensive and unnecessary.” However, as Tesla’s competition now realizes, LIDAR is necessary for many reasons. Relying solely on visual information is dangerous at 30 mph, 60…
I told many of my friends and relatives about a new AI research tool called Perplexity. It does not get the press or billionaire coverage of the more famous AIs such as ChatGPT, CoPilot, Boomi, OpenAI, or China’s Deep Seek. However, I have been using it and just got word that a new version is…
I noticed that Elon Musk’s AI, Grok, was becoming popular, so I decided to ask it a “softball” question and compare its responses with those of other AIs. Having studied my distant cousin’s genealogy, I knew the answer to the “softball” question, “Which member of Elon Musk’s family was Elon named after?” You would assume…