A Lancaster Home

On By JohnIn family, travelLeave a comment

I made a stop at Walmart last night and I was again tempted to take in my opinion an ironic photo. I find it funny and interesting to see Amish horse and buggy parking at a Walmart. Every time I go I see at least one parked there. I feel rude taking the photo so I won’t.

I’ll share a few photos from when we visited the Amish House & Farm in Lancaster PA 2 weeks ago. I found this stop weird too because they plopped a Target right next to this old old farmhouse and tourist stop. The Littles made Amish jump ropes which they were thrilled with. They also loved the one room school house.

Unsupervised Training of AI

On By JohnIn education isn't, interestingLeave a comment

did-you-kno:

Microsoft’s experimental chatbot turned
into a Nazi in less than a day. ‘Tay’ was
designed to interact with and learn from
18 to 24-year-olds on social media, but
immediately had to be taken down
because within 24 hours it tweeted
“Hitler was right.” Source Source 2

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Photo credit: smh.com.au

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Photo credit: twitter/@geraldmellor

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Photo credit: twitter/@geraldmellor

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Photo credit: twitter/@geraldmellor

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Photo credit: twitter/@geraldmellor

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Photo credit: fusion.net

Is this what happens when a village raises a child?

Engineers: we must think very carefully about A.I. If this kind of thing somehow gets committed into some government android/killbot’s repository, extraordinarily bad things will happen to humanity.

First World Problems

On By JohnIn annoyingLeave a comment

Clicking through some photos on a real estate site and…

**click**

“Please sign in.”

“No, thanks.”

“Please sign in. You’ll get free stuff.”

“No, I’m good with it. Just looking at a few photos of some houses…”

“Please sign in. It’s free!”

“No. Really. I don’t want to. I don’t want an account.”

“Please sign in. You don’t want to miss out on free stuff!”

**clicks close**

I know what I want – and it doesn’t involve arguing with a poorly-designed, forced-marketing on a website. Sure, your data might be “free”, but I’m also free to just walk away.