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Category Archives: New Zealand
Preparing For the AI Future Should be Top of Your List!
Humans are creatures of habit, and you may not like this, but almost everything meaningful you do in your day to day life can be reduced to a series of prompts. Ditto for your work, especially if you are sat … Continue reading
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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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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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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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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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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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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Dumbo’s Feather
Disney Lawyers Please Look Away! This title pretty well sums up my job description as a contractor at the Indevin winery for the last 12 years. Yes there were long nights, moments of rapid development, followed by the long tail … Continue reading
Posted in Efficiency, Indevin, Management, MRP, New Zealand, NZ, Process Automation, Project Management, Uncategorized
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