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Category Archives: boz
Random Emails from Strangers are Still Nice to Get.
The one positive aspect from having a blog site, and being an author is the occasional person who decides to write you an email out of the blue. The first time it happened was back in 2017, I had written … Continue reading
Do 8051/8031 assembly like its 1984!
After my recent trip to the UK, my friend Tony, who I worked with as a electronics technician in Q4 division at GCHQ from 1984 to 1989, sent me an email. Apparently in the late nineties, a few years after … Continue reading
Posted in boz, Other Programming, Pascal Programming, Programming, Retro, Uncategorized
Tagged 8031, 8051, assembler, GCHQ, nostalgia, Turbo Pascal 3
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Humanity Needs Aliens to Survive
We are a weird bunch. Does it really matter if somebody likes Android over iPhone, a Ford over a BMW, or even the Labour party over the Conservative party, considering none of these entities have any interest in you whatsoever … Continue reading
Posted in AI, Books, boz, Funny, Philosophy, Politics, Speculation, The Future
Tagged Aliens
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Dungeon Newbie
Check out that Wizards magic Staff ! As part of a group of friends “Games night” I decided to create a very simple introduction to RPG Dungeons and Dragons by throwing all the rules away and making a game that … Continue reading
Posted in boz, Funny, New Zealand, NZ, RPG Games, Uncategorized
Tagged D&D, D&D Starter, Dragons of Stormwreck Island, Dungeon Newbie, Dungeons and Dragons, RPG
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Harry Potter and the Junior Prompt Engineer
I’ve been trying to stay off the Internet and for the last week and get myself back into some novel writing. Unfortunately I have hit a bit of a plot road-block in my next serious “Boz” novel, so I’ve decided … Continue reading
Posted in AI, Books, boz, Boz NZ, Funny, Philosophy, Science Fiction, Singularity, Speculation, The Future
Tagged Harry Potter, Holodeck, Prompt Engineering
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I’m an ASI. Ask Me Anything.
I apologise in advance for the click-bait title that got you here, yet this isn’t really click-bait, this underlines an important philosophical topic, one that many people are expecting to be reality soon. What questions will we ask of our … Continue reading
Posted in AI, AI Alignment, boz, End Game, Philosophy, Politics, Science Fiction, Singularity, Singularity, Speculation, The Future, The Phoney War, The Summer of Reasoning
Tagged AGI, AMA, ASI, Einstein, Reality Check, Sentient AI
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The Timeline for my First Book is Now Playing Out!
Just like it takes more and more energy to get closer to the speed of light, LLM looks to be currently trending a similar asymptote curve, requiring more and more compute and data to get to the maximum human level … Continue reading
Posted in AI, AI Alignment, Boz NZ, New Zealand, NZ, Politics, Singularity, Speculation, The Future
Tagged AGI, AI.2027, ASI, Daniel Kokotailo, Dwarkesh Patel, Intelligence Explosion, LLM, Scott Alexander, singularity, The Phoney War
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Don’t Write Long Books Until You’re Famous.
While that epic thick novel may look great on your bookshelf, showing what an dedicated and accomplished writer you are, it could be limiting your books exposure to a very small subset of readers. I kind of laughed at this … Continue reading
Posted in A Level of Consciousness, AI, Books, boz, Boz NZ, End Game, Funny, Publishing, Science Fiction, Singularity, The Phoney War, The Summer of Reasoning
Tagged Advice to New Authors, Branding, Creative Writing, Marketing, New Authors, Novel length, Selling Yourself
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Please don’t read this if you are in the EU.
This site probably uses cookies and might store some information about you using them. I don’t really know and don’t really care, but if you are accessing it from Europe then it’s (and therefore I’m) likely not complying with EU … Continue reading
Posted in Bad Management, Boz NZ, Efficiency, Funny, Management, New Zealand, Politics, Speculation
Tagged Annoyances!, Cookies, GDPR, Safety, Security, Tongue-in-Cheek
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Continuous Floatation in Wineries
There are two common methods to clarify juice before it goes into fermentation. Firstly there is cold-settling, where you just leave the juice alone for several days and wait for the clear juice and lees (the juice particulates) to separate. … Continue reading
Posted in boz, Boz NZ, Bulls-i, C Programming, Indevin, MRP, Pascal Programming, Process Automation, Programming, SCADA, SQL, Uncategorized
Tagged Allison Droguett, Clarification, Continuous Floatation, Factory Automation, Fran Monsalve, Grape Receival, RFID, SCADA, Touchscreen, Winemaking, Winery Automation
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On-Time and Under-Budget. Where some IT projects are Probably Going Wrong.
This will be a short post, and not technical like my usual ones, it is about many of the seemingly hundreds of failed IT projects out there, where companies have been let down by the big IT companies and consultants. … Continue reading
Posted in boz, Boz NZ, C Programming, Electronics, ESP32-C3, IT Failures, LoRa, Motor Controllers, MySQL, New Zealand, NZ, Other Programming, Pascal Programming, Project Management
Tagged boz, boz nz, boznz, C Programmer, Delphi Developer NZ, Delphi programmer, Delphi Programmer NZ, Electronics Design, Electronics Design NZ, Pascal Programmer, SQL administrator, SQL Developer NZ
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The Summer of Reasoning Book 1 – The Phoney War – Now Free!
As part of the refresh to my older paperback book covers, to try and make them a bit more true to their story and more appealing, I have decided to give away the first part of the trilogy “The Phoney … Continue reading
Posted in A Level of Consciousness, AI, boz, Boz NZ, End Game, Publishing, Science Fiction, Singularity, Speculation, The Future, The Phoney War, The Summer of Reasoning
Tagged Blenheim Library, boz, boz nz, End Game, National Library of NZ, singularity, The Phoney War, the summer of reasoning
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I guess I’m not so good at this Marketing Thing!
Marketing. You know, selling your product to the people. Well the consensus is in, I suck at it. Yet another person has approached me and let me know that the covers for my books suck and really don’t reflect the … Continue reading
Posted in A Level of Consciousness, AI, boz, Boz NZ, End Game, Publishing, Science Fiction, Singularity, The Phoney War, The Summer of Reasoning, Uncategorized
Tagged End Game, singularity, The Phoney War, the summer of reasoning
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