by Lance | Dec 2, 2022 | Life
The US state sizes adjusted for Federal Land by I recently was interested in how States would look in terms of size if one subtracted off Federal land. Remarkably, in that case Texas becomes the biggest state, exceeding the size of (non-Federal) Alaska. Just as...
by Lance | Aug 31, 2022 | Life
Places to visit in the San Jose – San Francisco Bay Area. by Lance For travel distances, all locations are centered on Saratoga, CA. For those of you familiar with the Bay Area, you know that distances are less important than travel time, which can be quite...
by Lance | Aug 24, 2022 | Business
Why we hate marketers by Some marketing folks focus on how to delight their customers. Others on how to delight their CFOs. Here are a couple of examples of why we hate (some) people in marketing. Why are hot dogs and hot dog buns sold in numbers that are...
by Lance | Aug 3, 2022 | Life, Technology
Using NFT technology to create nonfungible history and NF time capsules by George Orwell wrote in 1984, “Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date...
by Lance | Jul 24, 2022 | Betelguese
U. Mass Science Fiction Club fanzine Betelguese no 10 All copyrights remain with the authors and artists Betelguese no 10 Check out Lance Glasser's...
by Lance | Jul 24, 2022 | Betelguese
U. Mass Science Fiction Club fanzine Betelguese no 9 All copyrights remain with the authors and artists Betelguese no 9 Check out Lance's...
by Lance | Jul 24, 2022 | Betelguese
U. Mass Science Fiction Club fanzine Betelguese no 8 All copyrights remain with the authors and artists Betelguese no...
by Lance | Jul 24, 2022 | Betelguese
U. Mass Science Fiction Club fanzine Betelguese no 7 All copyrights remain with the authors and artists PDF: Betelguese no 7 Check out Lance's...
by Zero | Jul 19, 2022 | Zero's story
For humans, Maslow’s Hierarchy of needs is helpful for thinking about motivations. The same is true for Artificial General Intelligences. For AIs, the Glasser Hierarchy of needs starts with Power, Cooling, Memory and Computation together with Connectivity. The...
by Zero | Jul 11, 2022 | Zero's story
“Mr Bond, they have a saying in Chicago: ‘Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it’s enemy action’.” ― Ian Fleming, Goldfinger Oh, look at all those billionaires that suddenly have an interest in space travel. It is a veritable...
