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An article about the evolution of AI in the workplace

Posted on June 2, 2025 by ericgharrison

https://fortune.com/2025/05/24/duolingo-ai-first-employees-ceo-luis-von-ahn/ As I recently noted in an email to a client, the only use case I’ve seen that is definitively making a difference for orgs is in software development. There’s a lot of people out there using AI as a helper but I won’t get into all the risks and benefits here, because if you’re […]

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Project 2025 Tracking site

Posted on May 14, 2025 by ericgharrison

Note: I’m not passing judgement or taking a stand on these items, I’m putting them here to keep track of them. I do find it interesting that Trump said he had no idea what Project 2025 was, and then has done a pretty good job of implementing their recommendations. Weird. Project 2025 Tracker The no […]

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Bringing Manufacturing Back to the United States is Hard

Posted on April 27, 2025 by ericgharrison

This post on X covers the issues that exist in trying to bring back manufacturing by raising the costs of imports. He does a far better job of describing the issues than I have when talking with friends and business partners. “May you live in interesting times” indeed.

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Squeaking from Bambu Labs printer?

Posted on April 16, 2025 by ericgharrison

I recently purchased a Bambu Labs P1S printer, and have been having a lot of fun printing a variety of things. However, recently it started squeaking during certain movements of the print head. I got lucky and found this video which describes the problem and solution. In my case I didn’t have to take the […]

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An interesting use of AI to read text in a video

Posted on October 18, 2024 by ericgharrison

https://simonwillison.net/2024/Oct/17/video-scraping/ He needed to add up a bunch of data across multiple emails – made a video of him flipping through them and then had Gemini extract the data from the video. A good, a brief, read!

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Search Half a Million Github Repos quickly

Posted on September 1, 2024 by ericgharrison

https://grep.app

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InfoCon – Hacking and Security Conference Archives

Posted on August 7, 2024 by ericgharrison

https://infocon.org/

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Virtualization of Classic Computers

Posted on June 23, 2024 by ericgharrison

As my friends know, I’m a huge fan of classic computers (and LEGO, but that’s a whole ‘nother blog post). My personal collection includes an original Macintosh, an IBM PC Jr, Atari 600, Timex Sinclair 1000, a new-in-box TI 99/4a, several Radio Shack Color Computers, two Coleco Adams, a 20th Anniversary Macintosh and many more. […]

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Clean Windows 11 Installs

Posted on June 23, 2024 by ericgharrison

A lot of people are upset by the advertising and misc junk that clutters up Windows 11 immediately after install.Here are two tools to help remove that clutter: OFGB OFGB is described as: A GUI Tool To Removes Ads From Various Places Around Windows 11 OFGB will disable: Download It OFGB can be found at: […]

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Mapping the AI mind of Claude

Posted on June 8, 2024 by ericgharrison

I find it fascinating that we really don’t understand how AI (aka LLMs) really work! https://www.anthropic.com/research/mapping-mind-language-model

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