Tag: Computer Models

  • Killer Chat Groups (Part 1) – Wall Street

    “We can stay retarded longer than they can stay solvent” I never was much into computer games, aside from delving briefly into a rather crude version of Dungeons and Dragons, as I wrote about in The Age of Men is over. The Time of The Orc has come. After slaving over a hot computer terminal for…

  • Creative Content

    Pretty isn’t she? Lovely, clear, open face with a nice smile and beautiful eyes. Were you of her age (late teens/early twenties), you’d love to date her. There’s just one problem. She doesn’t exist. “She” was created by an Artificial Intelligence (AI) located at the website, This Person Does Not Exist. That example is just one…

  • They got it wrong again.

    Having already written in 2020 about the insanely wrong predictions made early that year by British epidemiological “expert”, Neil Ferguson, followed by his total hypocrisy in breaking his own lockdown rules for a little bit of crumpet on the side, I didn’t think I’d ever have to hear from him again. I should have known…

  • The Pandemic ends when the polling says so

    Reading this Atlantic article I feel much as Boris Yeltsin did when he saw supermarkets in the USA for the first time. In two previous posts, Faces are nice and numbers are boring and the earlier Fear Pornography, I looked at how governments around the world, and our government in particular, would only start slacking off…

  • The Age of Men is over. The Time of The Orc has come.

    This will not be news for people who play Dungeons and Dragons, the now almost fifty year old, role-playing game beloved by generations of nerds. Dungeons and Dragons goes woke. Well shit! What hasn’t been going woke recently? From the article a bit of background for non D&D’rs. The science-fiction fantasy game was created in…

  • Another argument that is no longer off-limits

    One of the detailed points of argument during the Great Chinese Lung Rot pandemic was around the definition of what actually constituted a Covid-19 death. Early in the hysteria it was pointed out that deaths were being recorded as Covid simply because the patient had tested positive for Covid. This included even ridiculous examples such…