My Dad ran the first computer lab at Division Avenue High School in Levittown, NY. The lab held a bank of Apple II computers. He bought an Apple II for our house and then showed us how run games and program basic. This year I cleaned out ancient...
Food references in Zora Neale Hurston's novel Their Eyes Were Watching God expose both underlying personality traits of the protagonist Janie's husbands and her feelings towards those husbands. Logan - Boring Sustainment Janie's first husband,...
Intrusive advertisements, Bloated JavaScript widgets, and Artificial Intelligence (AI) generated, Search Engine Optimized (SEO) slop suffocate our web browsing experience. Trillion-dollar corporations turned the World Wide Web into a panopticon...
The discipline of Operations Research (OR) applies analytical methods from math, statistics, economics, and computer science to help leaders make good decisions. Enterprise software consumes physical resources (CPU, Memory, Disk, and Bandwidth)...
Victorious Roman Emperors followed a kill first policy when dealing with perceived threats. They ordered the execution of surrendered combatants, political leaders, women, children, and even friends. The emperor Severus followed standard protocol...
Introduction Government Acquisition Teams (and Academics) request written responses to gauge writers' capacity for difficult work. Good writing requires effort. Writers must provide clear, focused, and valuable prose to Readers. Writers must do...
Our bipartite Literary analysis of Yukio Mishima's Sea of Fertility tetralogy concludes this month. We further illustrate how Mishima's post-Meiji Japan teens capture timeless realities of the human journey. Last month, we discussed how his...
Yukio Mishima's Sea of Fertility tetralogy includes themes of reincarnation, futility, inevitably, and tradition. The novels follow the life of Shigekuni Honda and his peers in post-Meiji Japan. Even though Mishima's teens faced adolescence one...
Infrastructure Architects at Internet Service Providers (ISP), Cloud Service Providers (CSP) and Academic Institutions use the OpenDaylight (ODL) platform to command, control, monitor and automate computer networks. These Infrastructure...
Uniden released the Bearcat BC125AT, a killer non-digital scanner, in 2011. This scanner holds 500 channels and covers Ambulance, Aviation, Fire, Marine, NASCAR, NOAA Weather, Police, and Railroad bands. Uniden provides a desktop application to...
Sealed and Graded Video Game Collecting skyrocketed in popularity over the past decade. I joined the hobby in 2020 and stuck through the boom times of 2021 and the recent crash of 2023. Background Despite the recent crash, sealed video games do...
When I ask ChatGPT to write detailed technical content, I find that it outputs hollow, bombastic, and meandering prose. Such output places a high cognitive load on my mind: My subconscious must fill in the holes of the passive, cliche-ridden, and...
Today I collect and organize useful data visualization (Data Viz) tools that aid data exploration. I illustrate the use of the tools via the classic Abalone database, hosted on the University of California, Irvine (UCI) Machine Learning...
I've previously discussed the Reduced Coloumb Energy Neural Net algorithm on this site. I wrote the algorithm in Matlab, which uses index based logic to select, filter, wrangle and process data. Today I will refactor the Matlab code to Tidyverse....
I augment traditional literary analysis with Natural Language Processing (NLP) tools to compare Fyodor Dostoevsky's Rodion Raskolnikov (Crime and Punishment) with Ayn Rand's Howard Roark (The Fountainhead). Tools include both the Google Cloud...
The domain of Natural Language Processing (NLP) provides novel tools for Literary analysis. Analysts use NLP tools to record sentiment, emotional intensity, and word frequencies. Today I use NLP techniques to extract Raskolnikov's speaking (and...
In May 2023 Generative AI still disappoints in writing compelling literary analysis "from scratch." The output reads thin and lacks hard evidence. Today I instead measure Generative AI's effectiveness in assisting with literary analysis. I...
OpenDaylight allows network engineers to control switches with high level intelligence and abstracted services. Before Ravello, your engineers needed to deploy physical switches or use Mininet in order to integrate and test OpenDaylight. Neither...
In this blog post I present an actionable, focused checklist for the bare minimum, required SEO. Search engines provide links to useful pages based on user queries. You want search engines to return links to YOUR web page. To improve your chances...
In this blog post I write an entry for the (now defunct) Faux Faulkner Contest. I first write Humpty Dumpty in the voice of William Faulkner. I then command Generative AI to write an entry for the contest and compare the results. You can read my...
Hopkins refers to a “year” of “done darkness.” 1885 marks this year, the year Hopkins wrote “[Carrion Comfort].” For Hopkins, 1885 includes “encroaching derangement” that consumes him (Harris 12). Harris calls Hopkins’ situation “a recurrence of...
The City fuels Hopkins' sense of failure. The City provokes him to lose faith in himself and Humankind. Hopkins’ lack of faith in Humanity leads to feelings of inadequacy in his vocation. A Priest must focus on his fellow man’s spiritual...
Speaking of his “Terrible Sonnets,” Gerard Manley Hopkins suggests in a letter that “if ever anything is written in blood one of these is” (Bridges 219). The poems recount Hopkins' tumultuous examination of the pain and ambivalence that defines...
Amazon Web Services (AWS) SageMaker Notebook Instances provide fully managed Jupyter Notebooks, tailored for Data Science and Machine Learning (ML) use cases. These notebooks allow Data Scientists and ML Engineers to explore, operationalize and...
I use the new Jasper Artificial Intelligence (AI) Art service to create the pictures in this blog post. Jasper AI Art (non-affiliate link), for example, creates the following picture of the World's Largest Turnip. Jasper generates a before and...