If you don’t deal with DNS often, it can be a pain to troubleshoot. When it is working, you don’t touch it. When you need to change it, like when testing new sites (e.g. setting up staging sites on subdomains), I find it challenging at times. Staging sites are often protected, so they are not …
Even though ChatGPT is unaware of the outage of NOTAM on January 11, 2023.It does a decent job discussing the early speculation about how it happened andwhat can be done to remediate it.Keep in mind that ChatGPT has a knowledge base that was cut off in September2021. It does not even know the current official …
My chat with ChatGPT on the outage of the FAA’s NOTAM system. Read More »
The editor for google apps scripts is OK for simple (single file) macros or scripts. But it falls short when you are managing more complex scripts and multiple files. That is where google clasp comes in. Google clasp is an extension for VS code that allows google apps scripts to be updated locally, with changes easily pushed …
Having learned modern development late in life, I have relied on cloud-based IDEs for my much of my coding. I started off on c9.io which was great until Amazon bought it a few years ago. It was container-based so you could spin up new environments very quickly and access them from any machine. The new …
Finally had a chance to get a first-hand taste of GitHub CoPilot – the AI-based automated code generation tool which is in restricted Beta. And I have to say I like it and would encourage you to get on the beta list. I had seen a few videos on it, but it really feels different …
Started watching the Machine Learning series from the MIT Open Courseware offerings. Incredible source of free coursework. This is from last fall and is part of MIT infamous “course 6” Introduction to Computational Thinking and Data Science. I avoided course 6 when I was at MIT Sloan School – too theoretical. It is far more …
I have looked at a good 50 books on machine learning and see few that seriously deal with Testing Driven development and Machine learning. Given the vary nature of machine learning, the lack of TDD seems to be a problem waiting to happen. Having grown up in the world of credit risk modeling, I know …
After 3rd power supply – got the Raspberry Pi to boot. Capital budget for the $10 Raspberry Pi Zero has reached $39.