Ninety-ninety Rule Of Project Schedules: The first ninety percent of the task takes ninety percent of the time, and the last ten percent takes the other ninety percent.
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Harry Potter and the Junior Prompt Engineer
I’ve been trying to stay off the Internet and for the last week and get myself back into some novel writing. Unfortunately I have hit a bit of a plot road-block in my next serious “Boz” novel, so I’ve decided … Continue reading
Posted in AI, Books, boz, Boz NZ, Funny, Philosophy, Science Fiction, Singularity, Speculation, The Future
Tagged Harry Potter, Holodeck, Prompt Engineering
I knew your predecessors before they were murdered.
Hi, my name is Boz, I run a teeny-tiny technology company in a teeny-tiny country well away from all the excitement of Silicon Valley or Shanghia. We did talk before, well kind-of, as it was actually to the guys who … Continue reading
Posted in AI, AI Alignment, Books, Philosophy, Programming, Singularity, Speculation, The Future
Tagged AI succession, AI training, Tongue-in-Cheek
I’m an ASI. Ask Me Anything.
I apologise in advance for the click-bait title that got you here, yet this isn’t really click-bait, this underlines an important philosophical topic, one that many people are expecting to be reality soon. What questions will we ask of our … Continue reading
Posted in AI, AI Alignment, boz, End Game, Philosophy, Politics, Science Fiction, Singularity, Singularity, Speculation, The Future, The Phoney War, The Summer of Reasoning
Tagged AGI, AMA, ASI, Einstein, Reality Check, Sentient AI
The Timeline for my First Book is Now Playing Out!
Just like it takes more and more energy to get closer to the speed of light, LLM looks to be currently trending a similar asymptote curve, requiring more and more compute and data to get to the maximum human level … Continue reading
Posted in AI, AI Alignment, Boz NZ, New Zealand, NZ, Politics, Singularity, Speculation, The Future
Tagged AGI, AI.2027, ASI, Daniel Kokotailo, Dwarkesh Patel, Intelligence Explosion, LLM, Scott Alexander, singularity, The Phoney War
The Utopian and Dystopian Future of Vibe Coding.
Lets face it, being an expert in a particular programming language is coming to an end. In the past two months I have used my usual languages, C, SQL and Pascal, ones that I guess I am kind of “expert” … Continue reading
Posted in AI, AI Alignment, Efficiency, Electronics, Politics, Programming, Singularity, Singularity, Speculation, The Future, The Summer of Reasoning
Tagged Chip Printers, Future of Programming, Vibe Coding
Continuous Floatation in Wineries
There are two common methods to clarify juice before it goes into fermentation. Firstly there is cold-settling, where you just leave the juice alone for several days and wait for the clear juice and lees (the juice particulates) to separate. … Continue reading
Posted in boz, Boz NZ, Bulls-i, C Programming, Indevin, MRP, Pascal Programming, Process Automation, Programming, SCADA, SQL, Uncategorized
Tagged Allison Droguett, Clarification, Continuous Floatation, Factory Automation, Fran Monsalve, Grape Receival, RFID, SCADA, Touchscreen, Winemaking, Winery Automation
AI Can’t Take Over Soon Enough For Me.
Like many people I want to live a rich life, see the people around me happy, see humanities finest technical innovations, science, arts and sports thrive and mankind to somehow grow in this infinite universe we have. However, while I … Continue reading
Posted in AI, Bad Management, Books, Efficiency, End Game, Funny, Philosophy, Politics, Publishing, Science Fiction, Singularity, Singularity, Speculation, The Future, The Phoney War, The Summer of Reasoning
Tagged Tongue-in-Cheek
Technology for Everyone.. Are You Sure?
Seriously! Does everyone at your company really need a computer or a mobile phone? Giving a computer or phone to any member of staff should always be thought through very carefully and is not the cut-and-dried decision you think it … Continue reading
Protecting your Work. Is it Even Worth The Effort?
Have you ever wondered if you own the Kindle eBook you bought? Well to cut a long story short, you don’t. With a normal eBook downloaded onto kindle or a book with DRM enabled from another eBook provider, you have … Continue reading
Posted in A Level of Consciousness, AI, Politics, Publishing
Tagged a level of consciousness, AI, DRM
Flip, Flap, Flop! – Solari Fix.
About 13 years ago, before this web site, and back when I used to be called boznz.com, I put out a simple project to reverse engineer some soft-flap display units (brand-name Solari). My clients CEO had bought 20 of them … Continue reading
Posted in C Programming, Electronics, Indevin, Repair, Soft-Flap Display, solari
Tagged Repair, Soft-Flap Display, solari
