With Google shifting its podcasts from Google Podcasts (which is now shut down) over to YouTube, I’ve had to take some time and make sure we were up-to-date on the old episodes as I was shifting them over.
You can find the channel here under the podcasts tab: Implausipod on YouTube. I’ll update that in a few days.
As of 2024-07-19, I’m waiting to post the next episode (34!) before making this one fully live, so there is some new content with it. More to come!
Been thinking about this one for a few days*, so I created a page to collect links to stories about positive use cases for AI. I feel like this will be an evergreen document, and something I can refer back to in the future, as well as send a link to someone who denies the existence of potential positive impacts of AI.
Yes, there are some risks, and there is the potential that some of the stories are simply marketing. Part of the challenge will be sifting the hype-rbole from the actual positive uses. And of course, there are more stories out there than I can ever find, so if you come across this blog post in the future, feel free to send me any examples you find.
*: Maybe more than a few; it has kinda been lingering since I did the AI Reflections episode almost a year ago, last August.
That’s fantastic!
You can find the link right here. Also, we’ve gotten the first newsletter out. This is titled “March”, and obviously it’s out on April 10th. The plan for this is to be somewhat monthly, near the midpoint of each month. “Fortnightly” seems somewhat ambitious at this point in time; let’s see how it goes.
It’ll feature some current readings and content, as well as one or two exclusive comments that I haven’t posted elsewhere. It’ll change over time, or reflect whatever is currently being focused on.
Feel free to share and spread the word.
Whoof! That took a lot out of my system.
Was hit with a bout of food poisoning on Tuesday evening. It’s now Sunday morning, and I’m feeling almost back to normal, though still taking it very gently on the diet. After losing everything in the system between 9pm Tuesday and 2am Wednesday, I finally had a bit of oatmeal on Thursday, followed by potatoes, and finally a bit of chicken on Friday night.
Since then, portion sizes have been very small (and bland; a visit to Flavortown is not in my near future), there’s been no caffeine, low salt, and almost no processed food. (The salt crackers count as processed, technically.) Nor dairy, fruits, or veggies.
I’ll add those last three back in, but I’m taking the reset as an opportunity to make some diet changes. More on the journey, in little bits and pieces as we go.
Calgary, looking westward from Centre Street N, at dawn.
I’ve heard rumours that Calgary is an ugly city, but I’ve never known that to be the case. There’s an incredible amount of natural beauty here, sometimes just around the corner. I’ve lived here for quite a while, and I’m still discovering sights I’ve never seen. Like the clouds at sunrise, pictured above.
Given the cloud cover, only a few of the rocky mountains are visible in the image above (have a look at the horizon line, you’ll see them), but even so the bubblegum colours of the sunrise are magnificent. The (nearly) full moon is still there too, right in the centre of the shot.
Just a beautiful sky. Thought I’d share. Enjoy!