KNOWLEDGE OF MANY THINGS IS THE SWORD UNSEEN

I have put asterisk/star beside those aphorisms that are (to me) most egregiously false: > Everything is temporary, including yourself....

It is a cliche` to say "Weddings when one is young, and funerals when one is old". Such truisms bite harder as you live through them. ...

There are real issues of scale at play in this. To take an analogy: an experienced, diligent, and capable construction worker-type person...

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Tom Griesan is a colleague who I have known and worked with for years. One of his daughters (not Lily) was in my Abigail's class in...

My own guess is not that AI will by itself invent new coding languages, but rather I believe that AI-aided programming (AAP) will...

1. Bet 1 unit on RED 2. If you win, change color, and re-wind amount: bet 1 unit on BLACK. 3. If you lose at Step 1 or 4, double your bet...

These goals are now (as of Sep2022) referred to as "the Global Goals". Note that Bill Gates via Gatesnotes.com is still pursuing...

A computer program (and software in general) is "built from scratch" by writing code. Programmers are encouraged to include and use...

This quickly devolves into terminology and what is meant by this or that. HOWEVER, and in any case, I believe that Eckert and Mauchley...

To help understand what distinguishes object behavior from agent behavior, imagine a falling leaf that weaves back and forth in the air...

There was a time (I believe it was somewhere in the “Roaring Twenties” a century ago), when the profession of being a telephone...

This long passage from "Alice Through the Looking Glass" has some special and mysterious significance to me. I identify with the gentle...

Note: I have finished a short story of the idea outlined below. I will publish it here later, if and only if there seems to be no hope...

It is time to publish Carew’s dictum regarding women: Women (all women) are like rainbows and flowers, and a perfumed, perfect day in...

Kalends (Kal) fell on the first day of the month. Nones (Non) was the 7th of 31 day months March, May, July, and October, and the 5th of...

I loved her books many years ago, when I was a child. But I stopped reading them when I became older and discovered the adventure of SF....

Writing a computer program in a curious blend of 2 things: As much noted everywhere, programming is the process of telling a system of...

This is from the 2nd to Last book (I believe) of the Travis McGee series by John D. MacDonald, who died in 1987. The world has been...