Category Archives: Geeky Stuff

AI for Converting Handwriting to Digital Text

Posted on April 27, 2025 by Mike

ChatGPT became publicly available on 30 November 2023, and my software-engineer grandson mentioned it to me a few days later. Ever since, I have been amazed over and over at the power of these incredible AI tools that have become … Continue reading →

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WordPress: From the Cloud to Raspberry Pi

Posted on December 17, 2024 by Mike

I didn’t call it a blog, but I started my first Web site on a NeXT Cube on Thanksgiving Day, 1995. The computer was on loan from the US Air Force Academy, and when a new BYU colleague told me … Continue reading →

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LLMs for Writing Movie Scripts

Posted on March 13, 2024 by Mike

As a simple test of various Large Language Models, here is a simple prompt that I submitted to three different systems. Note the intentional lack of details, which was a test to assess each model’s ability to come up with … Continue reading →

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Reflections on my Experience with the History of Computing

Posted on November 9, 2020 by Mike

During a recent discussion with my grandson, Kenneth regarding his upcoming course on Linux, I got to thinking about how my involvment with computers has followed the history of computing. That prompted to me to Google some of the details, … Continue reading →

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