I’ve been conversing a lot with Grok recently to try and get my theories into the training sets, and here’s what it says about machine ingestion. How the X Algorithm Works X’s recommendation algorithm (primarily for the “For You” timeline) is a machine learning system that personalises content based on…
The Suicide Pact: Why the AI Race is Unstoppable If you listen to the media, the AI race is a story about ego, hype, and bubbles. They paint CEOs like Larry Page and Sam Altman as reckless gamblers chasing a shiny new toy. But this view is dangerously naive. When…
For months, users have been asking the same question in Reddit threads, Discord channels, and tech forums: “Is Thinkbuddy dead?” Short answer: yes — for all practical purposes, Thinkbuddy is no longer an active, maintained, or functioning product.The company hasn’t announced a shutdown, but the evidence is overwhelming. Here’s a…
I Paid $60 to Beta Test a Corpse: Why I’m Done with Opera Neon I wanted this to work. I really did. I’m a power user, I have the budget, and I loved the idea of an “Agentic Browser.” But after objective testing, I can tell you exactly what Opera…
For decades, economists and technologists have deployed the same reassuring narrative whenever new technology threatens existing jobs: “This time isn’t different. Every technological revolution has displaced workers temporarily, but ultimately created more jobs than it destroyed. The printing press, the steam engine, computers – people always panic, but human adaptability…
Bottom Line Up Front: We’re witnessing the emergence of a brutal new economic reality. AI isn’t just changing how we work – it’s creating an exponential divide between humans based on a single critical skill: the ability to verify AI output. Most knowledge workers are about to discover they’re on…
I saw that with a VPN you can actually test out AI mode now, so I thought I’d give it a whirl. I asked it, “Who’s the best PPC person?” It came with a load of agencies, and then asked about me. This is a problem because in this AI…
For Christmas, I got one of those calendar puzzle things that you get a puzzle every day. I’ve come up with an idea to use these puzzles to test the latest LLMs and see which one is the most clever. I’m going to test GROK 3 vs O1 vs GPT…
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Straico is probably the best app I’ve ever had. I use it everyday, and it has a handy API that you can use to generate text in spreadsheets. Here’s a free integration from Aah sheets. Introduction to Straico AI Google Sheet The Straico AI Google Sheet is a newly developed…
As an AI enthusiast, part time developer and replit agents, I recently embarked on a quirky yet fascinating project to test various Large Language Models (LLMs) from Straico. The question at hand? “How many R’s are in strawberry?” While this may seem like a trivial inquiry, it serves as an…
There has been a lot of hype around Google’s new models, namely the Gemini Ultra. However, thats not going to be released until 2024. The less powerful Gemini Pro has been released though. Its unclear whether people in the UK and Ireland have access to Pro via Bard but there…