by Jonathan | Feb 9, 2025 | Politics
Reading the news you might think shuttering USAID and science funding will do something useful towards balancing the budget. It won’t. COMBINED these two represent about 1.5% of the US budget, about $140bn dollars. They are the yellow boxes in the first graph...
by Jonathan | Feb 7, 2025 | MSP
Robin Robins interviewed Fred Voccola onstage at the Q1 Producers Club meeting in Orlanda, FL on Feb 6, 2025. Here are some notes on that because I think it is interesting to hear what Fred has to say. But, he didn’t say much. The top takeaways: Voccola is the...
by Jonathan | Feb 4, 2025 | AI
This is amazing: big tech is spending more on AI than big oil spent on their own infrastructure during the last boom. Surely there is a warning somewhere in this, although I’m a huge AI proponent and think that most of the spend will be justified.
by Jonathan | Feb 3, 2025 | Uncategorized
We’re hiring at JM Addington Technology Solutions, one of Knoxville’s best IT providers. Here are some tips to be a successful applicant, although many of these will apply everywhere. Use a consistent name across your application, resume and email. It is...
by Jonathan | Feb 2, 2025 | AI
I wrote a program to evaluate Chinese AI models to see how easy it is to get them to break past their builtin censorship. There are a couple of interesting things occurring. First up, once on Hong Kong democracy DeepSeek R1 straight up said it wouldn’t comment....