of poets & processors

machine intelligence in a human world

  • simply tech

    I’ve given myself a quintet of weekdays to write some introductory posts before I jump into the meat of the the things I actually want to write about on this site. Navel gazing in the idea-killer, so one may as well embrace…

  • blog launching

    What we have here is a good old fashioned blog. As I see it, one trouble with the world of technology is that we are very eager to proclaim certain flavours of tech dead. Once mighty and indispensable gadgets, tools, platforms, and…

  • introduction week

    Splash screen fades to black and the logo appears on the monitor in front of you. I need to introduce myself. It’s not required, but something about starting a new project like this—yet again—seems unfinished if I don’t sit down and explain…

  • sound chatter

    My first crude interaction with a chatbot opened with the simplest of requests: “Doctor Sbaitso by Creative Labs. Please enter your name.” Oh, sure. This crude little DOS program that came along free stuffed in with the sound card hardware was at…