April | 2024 | Stephen Smith's Blog
2 posts published by smist08 during April 2024| Stephen Smith's Blog
2 posts published by smist08 during April 2024| Stephen Smith's Blog
Introduction Trump continues to threaten Canada with a takeover, so people continue to boycott US companies and products as much as possible. Choosing Canadian apples over US apples, Mexican packag…| Stephen Smith's Blog
Introduction With the ongoing US tariff battle against Canada and the rest of the world, people are looking to boycott US companies as much as possible. As the US imposes tariffs on other countries…| Stephen Smith's Blog
Introduction Trump has received a lot of negative press for disbanding the US Environmental Protection Agency and removing many environmental protection laws and is generally hated by environmentalists. His campaign promises have been to drill oil like mad and burn as much oil as possible. Of course, with Trump what he actually does, does not […]| Stephen Smith's Blog
Introduction The Atlantic has an interesting story on all the books Meta/Facebook pirated to train their Llama 3 AI model. The story includes a tool where you can enter an Author’s name and get a l…| Stephen Smith's Blog
Introduction With Donald Trump’s threatened and implemented tariffs against most of the world, a lot of people are up in arms and looking for ways to fight back. Can boycotts of US products and ser…| Stephen Smith's Blog
Introduction There has been a lot of talk lately about whether the current LLM based AIs have reached Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). This has led to a lot of discussion of the definition of…| Stephen Smith's Blog
Introduction Last time, I blogged on the recent court case where Meta was caught training their AIs on pirated copyrighted material downloaded from pirate torrent sites. Since then, there was another copyright case judgement against an AI company, a major international political AI conference, discussions of AIs contribution to global warming and I received feedback […]| Stephen Smith's Blog
Introduction Facebook parent company Meta is in big trouble as a trial is revealing that Meta trained its AI using 81.7 terabytes of data downloaded from torrent sites like PirateBay. Among everyth…| Stephen Smith's Blog
Introduction 2025 is shaping up to be a year of contradictions. This article will look at a number of these contradictions and how they affect technology. The most bizarre contradictions of course …| Stephen Smith's Blog
Introduction The City of Vancouver recently started a committee to look at taking Bitcoin for payments and to hold some of the city’s financial reserves in Bitcoin. It’s been pointed out that this …| Stephen Smith's Blog
Introduction Last night CrowdStrike sent an automatic update that threw millions of Windows based computers into blue screen of death reboot loops. This took down airlines, banks, hospitals, govern…| Stephen Smith's Blog
Introduction Last time, we started our MiSTer journey and could run the various cores that didn’t require the add-on memory expansion module. I finally received the memory expansion board, so now t…| Stephen Smith's Blog
Introduction Imagine you could have a small Single Board Computer (SBC) with programmable hardware that can be configured to run as any personal computer, gaming console or arcade machine created b…| Stephen Smith's Blog
Introduction Last year, I got interested in FPGAs and purchased a Digilent Basys3, which was lots of fun to play with, I even got a minimal RISC-V processor programmed. The Basys3 is their lower en…| Stephen Smith's Blog
