News from johnpatrick.com – 12/02/2022
It’s All About Attitude All six books now have updated covers. Great work by Billy Wright. Hopefully, potential readers will find them refreshing and interesting. Ads are now running on Amazon, Facebook, and Google. The narrator for the Audible version of Reflection Attitude got a cold and this has delayed things a bit. I hope […]
Happy 4th of July
Happy 4th of July The Fourth of July is here again—a time for fireworks, grilling, and a little extra patriotism (and maybe a hot dog or three). Did you know Americans eat about **150 million hot dogs** on Independence Day each year? That’s enough to stretch from D.C. to L.A. and back! Fireworks are the […]
Why Is It So Hot? The Science Behind the Heat
Why Is It So Hot? The Science Behind the Heat This week, much of the eastern United States, including where I live in Danbury, CT, experienced a historic heat wave, with temperatures soaring near or above 100°F and breaking records in major cities like Boston, New York, and Philadelphia. To make matters worse, we had […]
AI Accuracy – 2
AI Accuracy – 2 On April 3, 2024, I wrote a blog post titled “AI Accuracy”. During the 15 months since then, things have changed. AIs have gotten smarter and have access to much more data. I do not know the overall accuracy rate, but I do know AIs are not perfect. Occasional hallucinations or […]
AI Regulation
AI Regulation My focus in this week’s blog post is regulation. During the mid 1990s, I was Chairman of The Global Internet Project (GIP). The GIP was an influential industry initiative founded in the mid-1990s to address the challenges and opportunities presented by the rapidly expanding Internet. The GIP aimed to encourage industry-led solutions to […]
Paris Trip Report: Grand Adventures with Grandkids
Paris Trip ReportGrand Adventures with Grandkids Our recent trip to Paris was truly special—my wife and I had the joy of introducing two teenagers among our six grandchildren to Europe for the first time. The adventure began with a rendezvous in New York, where our grandkids flew from their home city. From there, we boarded […]
