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Perspective
When I was a meat-eater, I couldn’t fathom being vegetarian. It just didn’t seem possible. Then I cut out red meat and pork, but I couldn’t imagine not eating chicken or fish. Then I stopped eating chicken, but the choices for most vegetarians, it seemed, on menus when we went to restaurants was so limited, I thought that’s…
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IBM’s Watson Gets A ‘Swear Filter’ After Learning The Urban Dictionary
In the end, Brown and his team were forced to remove the Urban Dictionary from Watson’s vocabulary, and additionally developed a smart filter to keep Watson from swearing in the future. via IBM’s Watson Gets A ‘Swear Filter’ After Learning The Urban Dictionary. A more glorious misuse of technology could not have been conceived. Of course…
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wheel on my screen
wheel on my screen
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My first course on Pluralsight
It’s happened. And it was much more work than I had originally anticipated. Much listening to (and cringing at) myself talk and trying to edit out all the “uh”s and “um”s (or as many as I could manage). Content wasn’t an issue, it was a matter of organizing the content into a structure and providing…
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my kid is awesome
my kid is awesome
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YESSS
YESSS
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2012 review and resolutions for 2013
I don’t tend to do these resolutions posts because resolution posts are things you do when you can’t set your own goals and feel the need to announce publicly something you plan on doing to act as an impetus for actually doing it (by shaming you into doing it since it’s out in the public). But…
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icicles
icicles
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pug and snow
pug and snow
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Easy-peasy Curry Sauce
We had some leftover basmati rice from Indian food the other night. My daughter didn’t want it, so I decided to whip up a quick curry sauce and serve it over the rice with some tofu. Having had a small breakfast, this recipe scores points for being fast and simple enough that a geek like me…