For those who don the undergarments of authority and stride the corridors of power, pompously parading the insignia of the punctuation police and SEO security, it should be noted that the title to this column in no way ends with an exclamation mark, so there are no SEO concerns to concern you there!
Moving on… have you ever found yourself desperately wanting to … Read More → "Arrggghhh! Now I Want an NI mioDAQ! (Ignore the ‘!’)"
So, there I was, happily minding my own business, when my email system went “ping” and I looked up to see a message with a subject line saying, “What if Your Strawberries Could Talk? Now They Can!” Unfortunately, I was obliged to lose the “Now They Can!” part from my column title. This is because—as I’ve mentioned before—those who don the undergarments of authority … Read More → "What if Your Strawberries Could Talk?"
Thus far, if the truth be told, I’ve had mixed experiences with large language models (LLMs) and generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) as personified by ChatGPT. I started, as many people do, by asking ChatGPT questions about things I knew nothing about, receiving responses that appeared to be reasonably impressive.
The reason for my emphasizing the word “appeared” in the previous … Read More → "From Thought to Circuit in Record Time with AI"
I just had an interesting video conference call. It started off as so many things do… with people laughing at me (I live for the day when people laugh *with* me rather than *at* me). First, there was the fact that my name invariably comes up as “Max the Magnificent” in conference applications like Zoom and Teams. I can no longer recall how this came to be, … Read More → "Have You Forgotten Anything?"
The first time that I saw the Texas Instruments (TI) micromirror-based Digital Light Processor (DLP) in action was during the late 1980s when I visited the company’s headquarters in Texas. Back then, the company had incorporated DLP into a thermal ticket printer for airline ticketing. It would be another ten years before another company, Digital Projection Ltd, would introduce a video projector based on TI’s … Read More → "TI’s new controller IC for its Digital Light Processors makes gaming projectors better"
I used to be young and foolish. I’m not young anymore, but that’s not what I wanted to talk about. What I wanted to say is that I’m constantly amazed by how far and fast technology has evolved in my own lifetime. Take single board computers (SBCs) for example (cue “travelling back in time” audio and visual effects…)
I remember … Read More → "5G AI-Enabled SBCs for Everyone and Everything"
