Category Archives: Miscellaneous

When I was in high school (Servite High School in Anaheim, California), I was on the school chess team. Our team — Bob Smith, Tom Law, Tom Quackenbush, Dan Musser, Ed Hernandez, Dan Musser, Dennis Michel, and Mike Ventriglia — … Continue reading →

The Jonny Quest animated TV series ran just one season of 26 episodes, in 1964-65. Even though the animation was a bit crude, the stories and music and background art were nicely done. The series developed a cult following that … Continue reading →

I contributed some technical content and opinions to an article titled “The Ethics of Ethical AI” on March 2026 edition of the Pure AI web site. See https://pureai.com/articles/2026/03/19/the-ethics-of-ethical-ai.aspx. * Decisions about what constitutes ethical AI are made by fewer than … Continue reading →

I was sitting in an airport, waiting to board a flight. I figured I’d use the time to write a computer simulation to solve the Ladybug on the Clock question. Imagine a standard clock. A ladybug flies in and lands … Continue reading →

It’s not easy to explain the topic of this blog post. Bear with me. The goal of a machine learning regression problem is to predict a single numeric value. For example, predicting the bank account balance of a person based … Continue reading →

I write code almost every day. When I write .NET / C# code, I use both the Visual Studio program as well as the Visual Studio Code program. My young colleagues tend to prefer Visual Studio Code (first general usage … Continue reading →

I decided to install Visual Studio 2026. This was a big deal for me because it’s not an exaggeration to say that I spend the majority of each working day using Visual Studio. I have been using the previous version, … Continue reading →

I contributed some technical content and opinions to an article titled “WAG (Web-Augmented Generation) for Not Quite Dummies” on the Pure AI web site. See https://pureai.com/articles/2025/11/03/wag-web-augmented-generation-for-not-quite-dummies.aspx. WAG (web-augmented generation) is quickly becoming an essential part of modern AI systems. WAG … Continue reading →

Problem: If you copy source code from Visual Studio 2022 and paste it into a Word table, you get an ugly white background behind the text. Solution: There is absolutely no way to fix this directly because by default, when … Continue reading →