Obituary: Hector David Gagné
My father passed away this week. I wrote the following obituary for him. Beaucoup d’amour, Papa. Toujours! Hector…
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“I’m sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that.” — HAL 9000, from “2001: A Space Odyssey.” As for HAL… old HAL gets a…
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“Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.”— Robert A.…
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Warning! This post doesn’t have anything to do with politics. I used to believe in souls. Even after I’d given up on…
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We’re losing the battle of ideas. Oh, and facts. I tell you, those things are strewn across the battlefield. Some are…
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“Gentlemen, we can rebuild him. We have the technology. We have the capability to make the world’s first bionic man.“…
Read article →Everything in Human Life is Really About Sex, Except…
If you’ve spent any time on the internet—or better yet, in the world of quotable dead authors—you’ve probably come…
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Can FOSS Bring “Open” to AI?
If I try to trace my roots in Open Source, I’d probably have to go back to my early days in the mid to late...
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