Tuesday, September 29, 2026
AI Terms for the Rest of Us
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AI Model : a trained AI running in a computer system that, after training, can respond to inquiries with reasoning called inference. A model...
Monday, September 28, 2026
The OpenAI/Hugging Face Caper, Allegorically
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I spent the last couple of days reading technical reports like this one and this one and this one and querying four AI engines about how the...
Saturday, September 12, 2026
How does AI picture itself? Google Gemini has thoughts
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How we picture artificial intelligence is unsettled. I've seen cover images and editorial cartoons riffing on oversized machines, a holl...
Friday, September 4, 2026
Podcast on nuclear history
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Here's a link to an interview I did on the True Spies podcast about nuclear weapons and technological disasters. The main topic was ...
Wednesday, May 20, 2026
Inviting Disaster, 25 Years On
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In the small Nebraska town of Lewellen, there's a restaurant and art gallery named The Most Unlikely Place . And it really is a surpris...
Wednesday, February 18, 2026
"The Greatest Gift," a column from 1915
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Our book club is reading Nicolo Machiavelli's The Prince , and by the time I reached Chapters 22-24 (on leaders and their advisers), thi...
Monday, December 22, 2025
THE JACKET: free again on Kindle ... for a few days
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Passing along another free-to-download offer of my first novel, THE JACKET. The offer runs on Kindle through Wednesday. Now for the promot...
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