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There's a catch

Jewell Borders — Mon, 10 Apr 2023 22:16:59 +0000

Working right now on a creating an application, that is so far interesting to me. There's a catch though, it will be one of my first "completed" application on Ruby on Rails. I say "completed" because I started on a few prior but the idea or concept wasn't enough to keep me interested as it wouldn't really have much of an impact on improving others life(or making money for that matter). As I said before, there's a catch... stay tuned!

Today I learned(3/15/23)

Jewell Borders — Wed, 15 Mar 2023 16:38:09 +0000

Recently the tech industry has been experiencing huge of lays off, Microsoft is no stranger to this. What's most interesting to me though, is the timing for a certain decision. To paraphrase an article I read;

"According to Platformer, Microsoft's recent layoffs included its entire ethics and society team within the artificial intelligence organization. The tech gient is now left without a team that ensure AI product design aligns with the value of responsible AI."

Microsoft is going all in on it's own AI like chat-bot, recently releasing Bing AI to it own web browser, Microsoft Edge. Microsoft recently sign a deal with GMC back in 2021 to bring ChatGPT like AI voice-asisstant to the car marker. Microsoft will also use this time to gather data to bring about it's own self-driving car. I would say this is a cause for concern with Microsoft laying off a part of their AI team, especially moving forward with everything they have in place. Only time will tell...

Today I Learned 2/11/23

Jewell Borders — Sun, 12 Feb 2023 02:29:20 +0000

In Ruby, symbols are immutable and primarily used as hash keys or for referencing method names.
Immutable means they are can't be changed once set.

item[:name] = "Bread"

and then

item["name"] = "Bread"

From the two above example, I can change the hash value of the second example as much as I like, but not the first.

Another helpful tip my instructor Robert told me was:

If a symbol is not already in the hash, then we can only use it to set a new value.

h={}
p h # nothing in there yet
h[:x]=5
h["x"]=4
p h # print the entire hash
p h[:x]
p h["x"]

Has AI started to eat the world?

Jewell Borders — Tue, 31 Jan 2023 05:29:43 +0000

Probably and ChatGPT is just one of the many AI resources available for use. Similar to SaaS, AIaaS allows businesses to experiment with AI for varying purposes without the costly initial investments.