In recent years some voters have been increasingly unsatisfied with two-party systems in USA. In 2016, neither of the two party candidates could get a majority of votes of the American people. In 2000, one third party candidate ended up making a big difference in the total, because as in most voting systems, one can only vote for one person for each position.
Continue reading “Ranked-choice (Instant-runoff) Voting, Interactive Demo”Recent Outages Highlight Need for Ham Radio, Multiple Emergency Communications.
Earlier this month, both AT&T and Verizon had a texting and calling cell phone outage – even the FCC noted that this was happening in multiple states! Similar issues have happened in February and at other times. In the recent New Mexico, 29 out of 113 cell towers were down and this is a common issue among areas with natural disasters. This highlights the need for other channels of communication, even when you are in town and normally have a working cell phone:
Continue reading “Recent Outages Highlight Need for Ham Radio, Multiple Emergency Communications.”Have SOME Pi!
SOME (Summer of Math Exposition) is happening again this year – a contest without a big prize, but of course the winner is everyone when we build some new math posts and videos for students learning…
Continue reading “Have SOME Pi!”Will LLMs ruin SEO? It already may be happening.
In the recent article in The Atlantic, they make an interesting point – the web will likely be transformed by the junk that can be created by LLVMs and ChatGPT. This could be an increasing problem in the future, and I have seen some cases where current search engines give links to the “word salad” pages noted in the article.
Continue reading “Will LLMs ruin SEO? It already may be happening.”Analysis of the Robinsons’ “Environmental Effects of Increased Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide”
If you live in Oregon you may have seen one of these research papers mailed to you along with a short letter promoting Noah Robinson for Oregon senate. Since this report is claimed on the campaign website to be “the most widely read scientific review article on “climate change,” which shows that human use of hydrocarbon fuels like gasoline is not changing the earth’s climate“, and the data in the charts ends at about the year 2000 for many charts as of its publishing, I decided to get some more recent data to research the most recent trends:
Continue reading “Analysis of the Robinsons’ “Environmental Effects of Increased Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide””Recent Research Paper Notes Security Issues of ChatGPT and Other Language Models
In early March a paper was published with details of a potential vulnerability that can spread across getAI systems. For example, a mailing assistant service could be set to send out something spammy.
Continue reading “Recent Research Paper Notes Security Issues of ChatGPT and Other Language Models”Coming soon: Humboldt Math Festival
For all our readers in So. Oregon/Northern California area… The Humboldt Math festival is coming up later this month! Mark you calendars for Apr 27th and check out their promo video from last year:
Continue reading “Coming soon: Humboldt Math Festival”UK Repeaters added in RepeaterSTART
The United Kingdom ham radio repeaters are now added and synced thanks to the https://ukrepeater.net/ API.
Continue reading “UK Repeaters added in RepeaterSTART”Is your XZ/SSH Security Library Compromised? How to Check for Recent Backdoor
Recently the common XZ library had a major backdoor found – by its own contributor. You can read about the recent discovery on OpenSSF. What does this say about the common advice to “always update the latest updates”? And how many times have things like this happened in the past?
Continue reading “Is your XZ/SSH Security Library Compromised? How to Check for Recent Backdoor”KNIME Summit is coming up – with free online passes available
If you’ve worked with data science, ML or AI tools you will probably be familiar with the KNIME tools. Later this month, April 15-17, 3 days of data science demos will be available, with free online stream passes available. Check it out at https://info.knime.com/spring-summit-2024-atx!