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Ah, the proliferation of abilities. Never ending. On the computer, that is, in all types variants. And, the complexity. Confounded seems to be everywhere extant.  Deep learning is a misnomer. Let us go down into deep thinking and show how this is so. About time? One ML expert (long years of experience) mentioned that he…

Home, at last? Kidding. Today, I bit the bullet and created a GitHub project for our work: PortalToTruth. The name? While I was building the index by image, I created an image for all of the posts that were in the index. For a comment, I mentioned the ‘portal to truth’ aspect of our minimal…

It’s time to bite the bullet, so to speak. Our minimal approach has been great for the past few years as we tried to cover 400 years of history in an organized fashion. At the same time, we had to keep track of things like content management plus worrying about issues related to configuration and…

We’re putting together the next issue of Gardner’s Beacon and got looking into this old issue. It has to do with ‘hats’ as they relate to roles. And, this implies lots that relate to cognitive issues. We’ll continue on this theme, which deals with whether there is an AI (or is it a chimera?). One…

We have started a renovation project which will consist of several phases. Each of the web sites has an image about this. We started to discuss various themes, such as motivation: Renovation, plus. One of these is that we’re in our 10th year and working on the 2nd issue of Volume IX of Gardner’s Beacon….

Note (10/25/2019): This is the first post written at our own site, after we migrated the posts from the WordPress site. Notice, too, we went two years (from 22 Apr 2017 to 01 Jun 2019) without WP. We’ll have to look at that and report on how we coped ;>). Our first post here was…

This was written at the old site: ThomasGardnerofSalem.wordpress.com prior to the movement of the old posts to the new site. The theme of technology will continue. — original post — We’re in the process of starting up WP at our site. The technical blog will move there. This content will be archived. When done, we’ll…

We just registered a shorter URL for ourselves: TGSoc.org. This will make emailing simpler. The format is simple HTML/CSS with a little JavaScripting. We will be bringing in more scripting as we work in functionality for membership, registered reading, and such. Recently, we met and agreed to keep with our own VM (rental) rather than…

Even the IEEE Spectrum had an article referring to the zombies with their little mobile devices. “Doing what?” is always my question, especially when I, as a pedestrian, almost get run over by one who is behind the wheel. We see these folks everywhere; they are an increasing danger. But, technology as a whole has…

I just went through the transition to Windows 10 and wanted to share some thoughts on the matter. I am running it like Windows 7, using a laptop and mouse. Our website is Linux based, so I can still keep up the maintenance using this method. We were, earlier, under the MS realm and had to…