Category Archives: Current Events

We Have ChatGPT At Home

Posted on 2025-01-31 by M. Eric Carr

The recent release of DeepSeek-R1 has posed a challenge to the established players in the LLM scene. While it may not be quite as powerful as the latest OpenAI models, R1 has demonstrated “chain of thought” and “mixture of experts” … Continue reading →

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Z80 End-Of-Life

Posted on 2024-04-29 by M. Eric Carr

Zilog has announced that the Z80 processor will go EOL. Almost fifty years is a pretty good run, for a CPU. Continue reading →

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Scary Smart

Posted on 2023-10-31 by M. Eric Carr

“Scary Smart” by Mo Gawdat, may be the most important book we ever write. Please go read it or listen to it. Continue reading →

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ChatGPT

Posted on 2022-12-17 by M. Eric Carr

With ChatGPT, the algorithms have learned to not only write working code, but accept constructive criticism and improve it, too. Continue reading →

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