One Year with the Apple Watch

It’s now almost a year ago I got my Apple Watch. Originally, I found it a quite silly idea, and mostly got it because I found the idea of the iPad equally silly when it was first released, but would have a hard time without my tablet today. The biggest thing I wanted from the […]

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Is Google’s Go-bot a Breakthrough for Artificial Intelligence?

If you know Betteridge’s Law of Headlines, you immediately know the answer is “no.”  The answer, much like kids, is not really the interesting part however; what is interesting is the process of getting there. Go, like chess and most other games, has been conceptually solved for many years.  So many that I as a […]

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Internet of Curtains version 0.1

My outside curtain box has reached its first prototype.  If you recall my post about IoT, I am working on a box that can control my outside blinds and also send a ton of sensor data back to a command center. For my first prototype, I was focusing on the high-voltage power.  Here’s where the […]

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Internet of Shoddily-made Things

I’ll outline what has changed since last time I wrote about the Internet of Things and which projects I’m currently working on. I call it projects, because then it’s as uncommitted as an analyst projection or a hipster working on their manuscript. […]

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Rape is Probably not a Good Thing

I know the title of this post is probably a very controversial opinion, but hear me out. You might have noticed that the past week I’ve been posting a lot of things about Ke$ha using the tags #FreeKesha or #IStandWithKesha.  It’s not about a singer who was sort-of famous 5 years ago being on sale, […]

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