Author Archives: billybaba
NOVEMBER 30, WEDNESDAY
SPELL CHECKER, IDENTITY CHECKER Another article on artificial intelligence. It is much more ubiquitous than I had thought. It is one thing for robots to take away the mind numbing assembly line type work that robots are doing. That threatens
NOVEMBER 30, WEDNESDAY
SPELL CHECKER, IDENTITY CHECKER Another article on artificial intelligence. It is much more ubiquitous than I had thought. It is one thing for robots to take away the mind numbing assembly line type work that robots are doing. That threatens
NOVEMBER 29, TUESDAY
CHARGPT This morning I was amazed that only 2 million years ago Greenland was a lush forest and that humans have only been here 100,000 years. But that is science which is a foreign country to me and I can
NOVEMBER 29, TUESDAY
CHARGPT This morning I was amazed that only 2 million years ago Greenland was a lush forest and that humans have only been here 100,000 years. But that is science which is a foreign country to me and I can
NOVEMBER 28, MONDAY
TRUST AND UNDERSTANDING I went to Asheville Retinal Associates to get the second injection into my eyeball to protect me for a blood clot in the back of my right eye. This time I was a little calmer than I
NOVEMBER 28, MONDAY
TRUST AND UNDERSTANDING I went to Asheville Retinal Associates to get the second injection into my eyeball to protect me for a blood clot in the back of my right eye. This time I was a little calmer than I
NOVEMBER 27, SUNDAY
CHANCE A second article in the Atlantic is about coincidences and chance and how we respond to it. One way to understand the universe and our place in it is that the universe is a result of an incomprehensible Big
NOVEMBER 27, SUNDAY
CHANCE A second article in the Atlantic is about coincidences and chance and how we respond to it. One way to understand the universe and our place in it is that the universe is a result of an incomprehensible Big
NOVEMBER 26, SATURDAY
HUGE I read a series of articles in the Atlantic this evening. I only find these articles that upend me because of Apple News, because someone at Apple News scours a wide range of newspapers and magazines and selects articles
NOVEMBER 26, SATURDAY
HUGE I read a series of articles in the Atlantic this evening. I only find these articles that upend me because of Apple News, because someone at Apple News scours a wide range of newspapers and magazines and selects articles
NOVEMBER 25, FRIDAY
MEMORIES After writing about my house in India yesterday, I realized that I am the only one I know who knew the house as it was when I was a boy. It is still clear in my mind but that
NOVEMBER 25, FRIDAY
MEMORIES After writing about my house in India yesterday, I realized that I am the only one I know who knew the house as it was when I was a boy. It is still clear in my mind but that
NOVEMBER 24, THURSDAY
YOU CAN’T GO HOME AGAIN When Susie and I were in Varanasi, India, in March of 2012 we decided to go to the city of Allahabad and visit where I had lived during my grade school and high school years
NOVEMBER 24, THURSDAY
YOU CAN’T GO HOME AGAIN When Susie and I were in Varanasi, India, in March of 2012 we decided to go to the city of Allahabad and visit where I had lived during my grade school and high school years
NOVEMBER 23, WEDNESDAY
MONUMENTS TO THE UNTHINKABLE This morning I read a November 14 New Yorker article entitled “Monuments to the Unthinkable”. The writer, Clint Smith, was examining the removal of memorial to Civil War Confederate heros and what further steps are being
NOVEMBER 23, WEDNESDAY
MONUMENTS TO THE UNTHINKABLE This morning I read a November 14 New Yorker article entitled “Monuments to the Unthinkable”. The writer, Clint Smith, was examining the removal of memorial to Civil War Confederate heros and what further steps are being
NOVEMBER 22, TUESDAY
AMERICAN CULTURAL PATTERNS This is a little lecture to myself as I try to understand why I sometimes fit into American cultural patterns (I am writing in American English after all) and sometimes I feel uncomfortable fitting in and want
NOVEMBER 22, TUESDAY
AMERICAN CULTURAL PATTERNS This is a little lecture to myself as I try to understand why I sometimes fit into American cultural patterns (I am writing in American English after all) and sometimes I feel uncomfortable fitting in and want
NOVEMBER 21, MONDAY
LIVING IN A DOLL HOUSE A long time ago Kathe and I invited an aquaintance and his wife who had gone on a trip to India with me to our house for dinner. Both he and his wife had a
NOVEMBER 21, MONDAY
LIVING IN A DOLL HOUSE A long time ago Kathe and I invited an aquaintance and his wife who had gone on a trip to India with me to our house for dinner. Both he and his wife had a
BILLYBABA’S WANDERING 