Slope of Hope Blog Posts

Slope initially began as a blog, so this is where most of the website’s content resides. Here we have tens of thousands of posts dating back over a decade. These are listed in reverse chronological order. Click on any category icon below to see posts tagged with that particular subject, or click on a word in the category cloud on the right side of the screen for more specific choices.

Super-Not-Impressive AI

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I’m a tech guy. I think I’ve got the bona fides to prove it. Worked with computers since 1979. Online since 1982. Over twenty published books. Started and sold a software company. Always bought the latest stuff. Wrote a book about interconnected computers around the world in 1982, which was more than a decade before it started happening. You get the picture. I know tech. I’m 99.9th percentile.

I have said again, and again, and again, that this entire AI thing is the most overhyped pile of crap in the universe, and we’re all going to look like fools in a few years. But allow me to share a tiny little snippet to show what I mean.

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Year Twenty Begins

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The longer I live, the shorter life gets.

It’s a truism, I suppose, and one of many which occur to humans as the years roll by. See, I started Slope as a pure-brown-haired lad in my 30s. As Slope now commences its 20th (God help me……..) year, the temples are greying, the teeth are decaying, and creditors are weighing my purse. Well, no, only the first of those is true, but I could not help letting a little Broadway slip into my off-the-cuff musings.

Prior to 2005, March 29th was just another day in the year, but now, every year, I think about what I’m going to write on the birthday of my electronic child. I was especially concerned this year since, frankly, I’ve never felt more despondent, more angst-ridden, more (dare I say it?) hopeless about the prospects we’ll ever see a real stock market again.

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Sweet Success

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As a kid, one of my favorite things in the world was a fresh Krispy Kreme tonight. How thrilled I was, some years ago, to see that the franchise has expanded into California, and I got to partake in the not-at-all-healthy-for-you goodness of a warm glazed doughnut. Krispy seemed to be fading badly from 2005 through 2010, but it has righted its ship and come roaring back, fattening us all up more deliciously than ever.

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