A blog by Josh Cogliati

First of all, if you manage to type something in wrong it can hard lock the calculator, and you may have to pop the batteries, and lose everything on the calculator.

A way to prevent AGI from taking over or destroying humanity is to strictly limit the computing power used on unknown AI algorithms.

This sermon is on various thoughts on truth that I gave at the Unitarian Universalist Church in Idaho Falls on October 20th 2024.

I gave a sermon on Moral Questions for the 2nd and 3rd Millennium on Sunday 2023-October-1 on moral questions for the 2nd and 3rd millennium, how new technology like AI, nuclear weapons, and horse drawn combine harvesters lead to new ethical questions.

30 years ago, Vernor Vinge gave a talk: The Coming Technological Singularity It is surprisingly still good.

Here are two places I have found open source house plans.

I gave a sermon last Sunday on Alpha (Genesis), Omicron (Evolution), LaMDA and Omega (The End of Human dominance).

This is my method of creating a pdf book for uploading to archive.org.

First of all, I am not a lawyer, and so this is not legal advice.

Fascinating article, If you read one article about American politics this month, I recommend this one: "It’s common these days to hear people talk about sick America, dying America, the end of America.

CollapseOS is a project to make an operating system and tools that can help restart technology after a civilization collapse: https://collapseos.org/ Of course, the software is only part restarting computer technology.

"This way of thinking has some distinct advantages.

Polebridge makes the BBC: http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20210215-welcome-to-polebridge-one-of-the-us-last-frontiers

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-55656824

Equifax doesn't actually send an annual credit report.

Now with some text as well (and I grant this python code to the public domain as well.) import time import board import displayio import digitalio import vectorio import gamepadshift import terminalio BUTTON_LEFT = 128 BUTTON_UP = 64 BUTTON_DOWN = 32 B…

I just got a pybadge, and I was trying to find an example that used the display but only used the core libraries.

"Seeking to understand rather than be understood requires a suppression of ego that takes practice.

In 2016 American voters did not know whom they were getting.

I have tried to create an account at MeWe multiple times, on two different ISPs spaced months apart (June and September of 2020), on Firefox, Chromium and Safari on Fedora, Ubuntu and macOS and every single time I get a 400 Bad Request when it tries to ac…

I request that you do not vote for Donald Trump.

"People outside the business may not recognize what a step it is, culturally and professionally, for reporters and editors to act on the implications of this reality—the knowledge that what a president or his senior representatives say has exactly zero fa…

I have put up some PDFs of old books that are out of copyright at goldenbeetle mooo Understanding Digital Computers by Paul Siegel (1961) Analog Computer Techniques by Clarence L.

If you are ever trying to run a mono binary program (such as from GOG) on a 64-bit Ubuntu and get the error: bash: .

That uncomfortable coronavirus feeling: It could be grief: https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/15/health/grief-loss-coronavirus-pandemic-wellness/index.html The reason Zoom calls drain your energy: https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20200421-why-zoom-video-chat…