Speaking in Code

Category: Tech Articles

  • Update to “Why ChatGPT and Bard won’t (yet) take over my job”

    A few months ago I wrote about my simple test to see how both Bard and ChatGPT 3.5 did with a simple programmer interview question (summary: neither one passed) and since Bard has had its innards recently replaced (with Google Gemini LLM) which is supposedly an improvement over its original PaLM LLM AI, I thought…

  • Why ChatGPT and Bard won’t (yet) take over my job

    Late last year (2022) it seemed like the programming world freaked out about the capability of ChatGPT and, a bit later, Google’s Bard–it seemed like there were messages of doom everywhere about how programmers would be out of a job soon. There were many headlines about how people could create apps in just a few…

  • Fun with queues – or how to make a maze

    This is companion piece to “how to solve a maze”. I’ve spent far too much time playing with mazes, both when I was young, and now later in life. I’ve wondered if this would fall under a “special interest” and I think there’s some argument that it could. While I was playing with code for…

  • Fun with recursion–or how to solve a maze

    When I was really young, maybe ten years old, I loved mazes, both solving them and creating them. That was decades ago, prior to personal computers (I’m dating myself with that disclosure) and so the only mazes we could really solve were in small books my friend and I bought (or could get a parent…

  • First experience with a All-In-One (water) CPU cooler

    I’m finding out how sensitive I am to certain stimuli (and it does seem like I’m getting more sensitive over time) and one of those things I am sensitive to is the fan noise of my computer. This latest computer I built is less than five months old and when I built it I wanted…

  • Setting up LUKS on a new SSD

    I’m not a linux OS expert even though I’ve been using linux for over twenty years (that said, I’d say that most anyone who installs and uses linux has to have a good amount of technical knowledge). It wasn’t until somewhat recently that I realized I really should have Full Disk Encryption (FDE) on the…

  • Webcams and USB cables on linux

    March 2023 And here I thought USB was compatible (mostly) with itself. Apparently, I still have a lot to learn about USB even though I’ve been in the computer field for 40+ years. Last week I was so looking forward to getting Zoom to work on linux. I had just found out–and I don’t recall…