09 August 2024
Pretty Good House is a book born of a podcast about building science. The authors, experts in building science, walk you through ideas and considerations in creating a house that is environmentally friendly and functional for its occupants. I walked away from reading it with a better understanding of home...
07 August 2024
After losing its antitrust case in federal court this week Google is throwing money at a tech sector that is immune to facts and scrutiny: cybersecurity. On todays The Daily they advertised Chrome Enterprise, a version of Chrome for business customers designed to be secure, because apparently the regular Chrome...
28 July 2024
I just finished reading Scott Galloways The Algebra of Wealth. Galloway provides a well written tour of basic financial concepts for folks that might not be familiar with how to save, invest, and make choices about their careers. For folks like me who have their finances under control the content...
24 July 2024
A few weeks ago I got an iPad Air. I love using this including writing my blog posts on it, but did not have an easy way to post to my blog, which uses a programmer centric site generator called Jekyll to create the HTML that is then hosted on...
22 July 2024
Reading this horrific story about algorithmically-assisted domestic violence interventions in Spain should be required reading for anyone pushing for the adoption of AI into critical government services, specifically those impacting or supporting decision making or the allocation of scare, vital resources. In a nutshell, Spain uses an algorithm to provide...
22 July 2024
As I sat in our hospital room with my wife and newborn son, I was a little bit trapped. The computer the nurses had been using now displayed an error message. Our morning nurse came by and asked for whatever paper records they had left in my sons bassinet. Our...