News from the Northwoods

This blog posts about aviation, automobiles, electronics, programming, politics and such other subjects as catch my interest. The blog is based in northern New Hampshire, USA

Saturday, March 31, 2018

I'd like to be just a plain American

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All those questionaires that want you to classify yourself as white, black, Asian-American, hispanic, purple with polka dots, are offensive ...

Friday, March 30, 2018

Vermont wants to regulate Artificial Intelligence (AI)

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Sounds cool. But what the newsies call "AI" is really just well programmed computers. In the programming world, "AI" i...

Thursday, March 29, 2018

Pacific Rim, (a movie)

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Youngest Son was up for the weekend. He wanted to see it. I had never heard of it before. This was the opening weekend. So after skiing o...

Tuesday, March 27, 2018

Personna Non Grata (PNG)

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The US and its allies are getting some press coverage by kicking Russian "diplomats" (intelligence agents actually) out of the c...

Monday, March 26, 2018

The Facebook API interface

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Face book has a lot of data, gathered over the years, on its computers. According to youngest son, there was an undocumented, but not secre...

California Pot Growers

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Saturday's Wall St Journal had an editorial headlined "Marijuana Supply-Siders". They stated that there are 68150 pot growers...

Sunday, March 25, 2018

Beat the Press

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They were on, Channel 10, just this morning. For the week's Trump bashing they talked about hiring and firing at the White House, presu...

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