In the days prior to WW1, newspapers fought to sell more copies by trying to one up each other with increasingly outrageous claims. Many of the headlines and articles in the biggest newspapers in the world were either misleading or outright false. They took small incidents and blew them up far larger than they needed to be.… read more “Yellow Journalism Leading to WW3”
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Family Time
I have been trying to make more time for family lately, so I was very happy to spend the weekend with Laurel, Kevin, Aunt Anne, Uncle Jim, and Jimmy in Palm Springs this weekend. I still did an hour or two of work a day, but it was good to have good quality family time.
Palm Springs Cactus Natural Garden Moortens
Palm Springs Air Museum
Tahquitz Canyon Hike
Robolights in Palm Springs
Escape Room Palm springs
Christmas in Palm Springs With Aunt Ann, Uncle Jim, Jimmy, Kevin, Laurel
AI Has Passed A Mouse
Artificial intelligence has now passed the level of a one year old human or a mouse. Given the rapidly increasing speed of advances, I think we can count on one hand the years till it passes human level intelligence.
Employees
Having employees can bring some unique HR issues. Some of the more interesting ones I have had are:
- The guy who went and drank three alcoholic drinks at lunch and came back to work crying (this was four years ago)
- The remote employee who watched a movie while he was supposedly working (also four years ago)
- The guy who never wore the same clothes twice (I guess he just returned it after one wearing?)