February 11, 2025

Psychologists use various terms to describe disorganized speech. “Word salad” – words and concepts so disconnected that there is no logical thread. “Neologisms” – made up words that have no literal meaning. “Loose association” – associations that are irrelevant or out of context. I’m going to briefly describe some of the AI updates from the…

December 17, 2024

Spotify Wrapped, King Gizzard, and the year’s best songs Spotify Wrapped kinda sucked in 2024, missing a bunch of the cool info from previous years about genres and favorite albums and more. Did you notice? Spotify ended 2023 with massive layoffs, including Scott Macdonald, the person whose insights about data analysis and genres was apparently…

December 3, 2024

Remember browser home pages? You do? I wouldn’t have guessed, you must be older than you look. All the rest of you children, gather round the fire, let me take you back to a simpler time when we still said “World Wide Web” and you could hear the capital letters. In the early days of…

October 1, 2024

Take a minute – literally just one minute – and listen to the beginning of one of these podcast conversations about recent books. Each is about ten minutes long but just listen to the first minute of one of them to get the idea. I’ll wait. Veilpiercer by Bruce Berls (Amazon) The Avatar Murders by Jim Rowson (Amazon) Wild…