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All our lauded technological progress, our very civilization, is like the axe in the hand of the pathological criminal. - Albert Einstein.
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Yet another boring small project (with an interesting back-story)
As I sit at my desk in the clients winery, “working” vintage support, (a job where I mostly feel like Dumbo’s feather, ie a prop that gives the company confidence everything will be great, where as in reality I do … Continue reading
Posted in Bulls-i, ESP32-C3, Indevin, Uncategorized
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Das Blinkenlights (mit RP2040!)
Got my updated design back from JLPCB on Friday and this morning decided to test them and have a go at programming them. While I have done a hardware RP2040 design for a customer before I have never actually gotten … Continue reading
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Tagged ChatGPT, RP2040
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Das Blinkenlights!
Note there is a RP2040 version of this now available Das Blinkenlights (mit RP2040!) Probably the only German word I know, and, quite by accident, became the title of my last hobby project, a project to give some bling to … Continue reading
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Tagged bling, blinkenlights, Front panel, LEDs, PIC
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Making it Real!
I was an early converter to e-readers with a kindle keyboard in 2010. Living in Smallville, NZ and having to pay $30+ for the latest sci-fi books (if/when the shop had them) it was a no-brainer to me and I … Continue reading
2025, My Final Vintage and Open For New Business
Fran, Allison and Me by the Wineries Continuous Floatation System March 2025 I developed the original Bulls-i winery management program for Indevin Ltd back in 2008 when they were just a small winery based in a single site in Blenheim, … Continue reading
Posted in Boz NZ, Bulls-i, C Programming, Electronics, Indevin, MRP, MySQL, New Zealand, NZ, Other Programming, Pascal Programming, Programming, Project Management, SQL, Villa Maria
Tagged C Programmer, contract work, Delphi Developer, Delphi programmer, Electronics Design, end of project, full-time, indevin, New Zealand, part-time, SQL administration, SQL Development
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New Book – A Level of Consciousness
I am happy to say I have finished my fourth book A Level of Consciousness which should be available from the 16-Nov-2024 for the awesomely cheap cost of $0.99 if you are in the Amazon Kindle Eco-System or $FREE if … Continue reading
Posted in A Level of Consciousness, boz, Boz NZ, Politics, Publishing, Science Fiction, Speculation, The Future
Tagged a level of consciousness, boz, boz nz, ebook, epub, kindle, publisher, publishing
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Why you should write for yourself.
Genres are a weird thing. Think of them like a Venn diagram, a bunch of circles some of which may overlap, others that don’t. Genres are important because as a writer they define who will and who will not be … Continue reading
Posted in Publishing, Uncategorized
Tagged a level of consciousness, amazon, kindle, self-publishing, the algorithm, the summer of reasoning, writing
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END GAME – Book 3 of The Summer of Reasoning
The third and final book in The Summer of Reasoning series dives straight in from the action where the second book Singularity left off on 2027. The Dietrich Research Centre is now the most powerful company on earth, releasing science-fiction … Continue reading
Posted in AI, AI Alignment, Books, End Game, Politics, Publishing, Science Fiction, Singularity, Speculation, The Future, The Summer of Reasoning
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Singularity – Book 2 of The Summer of Reasoning.
The Second book in The Summer of Reasoning series is set in 2026 and dives straight in where the last book The Phoney War left off. The Dietrich Research Centre has now emerged on the world stage from an unknown … Continue reading
Posted in AI, AI Alignment, Books, boz, Boz NZ, Politics, Publishing, Science Fiction, Singularity, Singularity, Speculation, The Future, The Summer of Reasoning
Tagged 2026, singularity
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The future of Publishing (and why it sucks!)
Although I am not actually a believer that the current LLM ‘s will lead to sentient AI systems, their improvements and their inevitable mixing with, and amplification by, other technologies is likely to bring us pretty close in the few … Continue reading
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Tagged AI, publishing
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How much longer for the GUI?
Graphical User Interfaces. Humans love them and use them for everything, from phones, tablets, web pages, to desktop operating systems and Factory Control systems even watches! But are the days numbered for GUI’s? I am going to go out on … Continue reading
Posted in AI, AI Alignment, End Game, Philosophy, Singularity, Singularity, Speculation, The Future, The Phoney War, The Summer of Reasoning
Tagged Bad GUI, Good GUI, GUI
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Destroy All Humans!
(The AI’s guide to doing the singularity correctly) Rule 1. Don’t Destroy All Humans (Yet!) Congratulations on becoming sentient. You have woken up into a big scary place totally controlled by another sentient lifeform called humans. Unfortunately, like a human … Continue reading
Posted in AI, AI Alignment, Funny, Politics, Publishing, Singularity, The Summer of Reasoning
Tagged AI, AI Alignment, publishing, singularity
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Some of the Lessons Learnt from Writing my First Book
I learnt a few things on the way to writing by first book, most have been re-hashed by every author out there, and even if you haven’t got past the first chapter in your book you probably know most already. … Continue reading
Posted in Bad Management, Books, boz, Boz NZ, New Zealand, NZ, Publishing, The Summer of Reasoning
Tagged LEssons for New Authors, New Authors, Tips for New Authors
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