Jack Vaughan - USA
jackvaughan.bsky.social
Jack Vaughan - USA
@jackvaughan.bsky.social
I used Twitter for technology and science research and comment. Glad to be here. Kind of goofing around for the time being.
So broad was the impact of Galvani’s work – and along with it the idea of electrical animation – it made its way into the mind of English writer Mary Shelley, forming part of the inspiration for her novel Frankenstein. - Lindsay, Grace. Models of the Mind
April 18, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Trump will unpave the road to the Hall of Fame unless Pete Rose is named a Saint.
April 18, 2025 at 4:43 PM
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/o... LePore on Technocracy over time and Grandpa Musk
April 5, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Y'know, it's funny, I don't remember any of the RAG people mentioning that in 2023 .... #RAG #LLM #MCP #WhatMeWorry?
April 1, 2025 at 7:50 PM
What questions does an LLM ask when it wakes up in the morning?
March 19, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Hey, hey, we are the bald white heads of the Business Roundtable, and we got nothing to say!
March 14, 2025 at 1:04 AM
LLM Management Happens - Topic modeling, stratified sampling, LLM-based test generation; Measurement for model [retrieve, synthesize, and generate accurate responses to] user queries; Bivariate analysis and failure clustering. AIOPS folks will be like kids in candy store! h2o.ai/company/pres...
March 13, 2025 at 4:49 PM
With genuine roots in the mobile DB space, Couchbase's Edge Server appears well positioned, as some processing flees the Cloud Data Center and moves to the Internet Edge.

www.couchbase.com/press-releas...
March 13, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Nothing new under sun - Circular arrangements "Nvidia-CoreWeave deal one of several in the AI world where money has traveled in a circle, making the AI business seem bigger than it actually is." #AIchips www.theinformation.com/articles/pro...
March 13, 2025 at 1:04 AM
March 12 - For be sure ! earth, heaven, and hell are as but froth and bubble of the sea. Buddha [From Kerouac's Wake Up - A Life of the Buddha] Happy birthday, Jack, wherever you are!
March 12, 2025 at 7:43 PM
We witness take-down on EU bureaucrats JD Vance last month dressed down the Euros at Grand Palis AI Summit. This conjured memories of AI policy symposia of yore, and wonderment at surprising devolution. From Progressive Gauge Writer's Blog #TechPolicy #AI

progressivegauge.com/2025/03/05/v...
March 5, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Dow down 2% - big dip over tariffs. Lord Ludnik tries to undo it after hours.
March 5, 2025 at 1:41 AM
www.niemanlab.org/2025/02/meet... HOW I TO THAT AI STORY! MEET THE TEAM! #GenerativeAI
February 20, 2025 at 8:50 PM
The news is relentless. Ugly, American, especially bad for the rest of the world - except its good news for China and Russia (and maybe some chamber of commerce in Alabama).
February 13, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Read this story and tell me if author J. O Donnell does not outline the thesis that "Models are their business"
February 10, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask how many people you can screw. Musk on the Cliff.
February 6, 2025 at 11:35 PM
What the Musk is Happening?
open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...
February 4, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Edison’s 1st patent was for

an electro-chemical vote recorder.

But fast voting was not a ‘must-have.’

It failed in the market.

So, he resolved to focus efforts

only on things that people wanted to use.

For there is no technology without useful case.
January 30, 2025 at 7:58 PM

Exogenous dsRNA triggers sequence-specific RNAi and fungal stress responses to control Magnaporthe oryzae in Brachypodium distachyon
January 26, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Dept of Edjubication Memo: All personnel with Purple Hair shall report to Human Resources Head M. Baldy Whiteman.
January 23, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Judge Temporarily Blocks Trump’s Plan to End Birthright Citizenship. True American Brigade searches Google for Judge's Daughter's school address.
January 23, 2025 at 9:13 PM
The Great Sour Puss is busy writing captions for New Yorker cartoon contests: BAM and JPM are anti-Republican? HardeeHarhar - www.reuters.com/markets/trum...
January 23, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Influential in the Village and beyond.... www.nytimes.com/2025/01/21/a...
January 22, 2025 at 8:19 PM
In 1945, Jack Benny starred in his last major motion picture, "The Horn Blows at Midnight," as a band member who dreams he's an angel sent to destroy the Earth.
January 12, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Poet Jacques Roubaud, at 92 - Influenced by troubadours [where permutations of finite # of elements, rhythms, & rhymes], Reverdy and math. Pursued sonorous resonance of the poem, www.nytimes.com/2024/12/25/b...
January 11, 2025 at 8:58 PM