Totally off topic, if you’re interested in AI at all, you may want to check out 3 Laws Unsafe, a site that takes a fresh and analytical look at the much touted “save humanity from evil robot/AI oppression” 3 laws of Robotics as proposed by Isaac Asimov. Personally, I’m not a fan of the 3 laws – [...]
I’ve previously been amused by stories claiming that tape is dead due to disk backup or VTL being able to seamlessly replace tape. However, lately it just sounds like a tiresome broken record. It’s usually accompanied by poorly described comments such as “tape is unreliable” or “tape is slow”. Honestly, do people who make the [...]
(Or, information is like water – you can drink from it, you can swim in it, or you can drown in it. What do you want to do?)
IT people work in what I’d refer to as information rich domains. That is, there’s a huge amount of information out there that can be of use, and [...]