by Scott Howard Swain | Oct 9, 2025 | AI, All Articles, Coding Assistants, LLM, Machine Learning |
Yay there are many to choose from! If you work in VS Code, the one that stands out for me is Roo Code. Some things I love about it: (1) Free – you just plug the API keys in for whatever models you wan to use. The only limits come from the models through API. (2)...
by Scott Howard Swain | Oct 8, 2025 | All Articles, Health, Life |
Originalmente escrito en 2021 después de poco más de 2 años del estilo de vida de abajo. Se actualiza seguido conforme aprendo más. ¡Sube de nivel tu salud! ¡Gracias por tener interés en esta nueva perspectiva de un estilo de vida milenario de meter comida al hocico!...
by Scott Howard Swain | Oct 8, 2025 | All Articles, Health, Life |
Originally written in 2021 after a little over 2 years of the lifestyle routine below. Updated often as I learn more. Health level up! Thanks for having interest in this new take on a millennia-old pie-hole stuffing lifestyle! Before refined grains. Before Nestle and...
by Scott Howard Swain | Oct 7, 2025 | AGI, AI, All Articles, Business, Economics, Liberty, LLM, Machine Learning, ML, Politics, Voluntaryism |
Let’s talk about AI trainers “stealing” people’s data or creations. If your child sits in front of YouTube learning how to pair photons using Swain’s Wobulation Theorem, invents wormholes, and goes on to get mega rich by commercializing...
by Scott Howard Swain | Oct 5, 2025 | All Articles, Liberty, Life, Privacy, Voluntaryism |
Originally written 2016. Updated often. “I want to have snoop-free online communication. Should I go with Telegram or Signal?” Before you go any further: There is no app you can use on your phone or computer that will give you 100% privacy. Much evidence...
by Scott Howard Swain | Apr 26, 2025 | All Articles, Culture, EQ, Life, Relationships |
In these modern times, it’s important to understand the opposite sex, unless you are homo. After many years of trial and error, I want to share the wisdom I’ve gained about how to have success with women … in bed. 1. Add some spice by texting with...
by Scott Howard Swain | Apr 6, 2025 | AGI, AI, All Articles, Business, Corruption, LLM, Machine Learning, ML, Politics |
What are some other AI models (post LLM, not using LLM methods) that go beyond the current high-end LLMs and LLMs on the near horizon but are not proven to work yet? Several experimental AI architectures and paradigms push beyond current post-LLM models but remain...
by Scott Howard Swain | Apr 2, 2025 | AGI, AI, All Articles, Business, Corruption, LLM, Machine Learning, ML, Politics |
Why is OpenAI a potential problem and what can us puny mortals do to contribute to a solution? OpenAI’s “Chat GPT” has become the most well known of Large Language Models (LLMs). By the way, it isn’t the best. I have a beef or two with OpenAI....
by Scott Howard Swain | Mar 30, 2025 | All Articles, Culture, EQ, Life, Parenting, PEP, Practical Empathy Book, Relationships |
Originally written in 2016. Updated. When you think of how much you trust people, do you think in terms of: (A) I either trust them or I don’t. OR (B) My trust for a person has a range from “no trust” or “very little trust” through...
by Scott Howard Swain | Mar 27, 2025 | AGI, AI, All Articles, LLM, Machine Learning, ML |
Some of my favorite childhood memories are of sitting in front of a tiny TV hooked up to my Commodore Vic-20 (with tape drive and 300 baud modem) making games and other apps in 1982. Thirty years of freelance coding later, I still love doing it! In early 2022, I...
by Scott Howard Swain | Mar 24, 2025 | All Articles, Culture, Liberty, Politics, Practical Empathy Book, Socialism, Voluntaryism, War |
Originally written 2016. Updated. We have all heard American Republicans and Democrats speak of each other with rancor. It is especially tragic when we realize both “sides” want the same things; fairness, peace, health, prosperity, a strong WiFi signal,...
by Scott Howard Swain | Mar 22, 2025 | All Articles, Business, Culture, Economics, Life, Money, Relationships |
Edited. Originally written February 2024 First, let’s hear from a couple people who want to see the price of service being built into the meal College Student #1: “Tipping culture perpetuates an exploitative system where restaurant owners can underpay...
by Scott Howard Swain | Mar 21, 2025 | All Articles, Culture, EQ, Life, PEP, Practical Empathy Book, Relationships |
How much do you compromise your authenticity in order to protect feelings? And on the other side, do you want true feedback and to be given the benefit of the doubt that you want and can handle truth? Cognitive Empathy is about trying to understand feelings, not to...
by Scott Howard Swain | Mar 21, 2025 | All Articles, Humor, Life, Politics, Voluntaryism |
Written March 2025. It would be exciting to find out all the funky flying, crashes, and anal probing by species far beyond us were just drunk driving homos, so advanced that we can not and should not question their existence and should have faith, for the faithful...
by Scott Howard Swain | Mar 9, 2025 | All Articles, Economics, Liberty, Politics, Socialism, Voluntaryism |
Updated. Originally written 2024-03. *”Anarchy” has many flavors. I’m talking about the flavors that respect property & body rights, such as “Voluntaryism,” “Anarcho-Capitalism,” and “Agorism.” ONE. We...
by Scott Howard Swain | Jan 12, 2025 | All Articles, Culture, EQ, Life, Relationships, Voluntaryism |
A zoom-able version of the above image is near the bottom of this article. Originally written in June 2022. How much time do we actually save by taking short cuts with our communication? I’m a fan of efficiency. This is why I simultaneously sympathize with and...
by Scott Howard Swain | Dec 8, 2024 | All Articles, Culture, EQ, Feminism, Humor, Life, Politics, Relationships, Voluntaryism |
Originally written May 2020. Edited December 2024. I watched The Red Pill by Cassie Jaye and feel inspired to reach out to modern day feminists. Dear women Let’s recognize some of the primary issues you as a woman have. I agree that men can’t fully...
by Scott Howard Swain | Nov 10, 2024 | All Articles, Business, Corruption, Economics, Money, Voluntaryism |
Video below the article. Government money in STEM research has contributed to corruption, reducing the accuracy and authenticity of the research. But isn’t government money needed here? I think not. Here are some funding options, other than govt: –...
by Scott Howard Swain | Nov 10, 2024 | All Articles, Business, Culture, Economics, Liberty, Life, Politics, Socialism, Voluntaryism |
I bet most of us agree that there is usually a net overall loss when one person forces another person to do a thing. Sometimes, though, people “expand” the definition of force to include not doing a thing. What?! Example A person in need came to you asking...
by Scott Howard Swain | Oct 25, 2024 | All Articles, Creativity, Culture, Economics, Feminism, Liberty, Life, Marxism, Politics, Socialism, Voluntaryism |
Originally written in 2020. Updated often. Over the past twelve+ years there has been a steep acceleration in what some call “cultural Marxism”, “identity politics”, tokenism, or “wokeness”. One form this has taken has been in...
by Scott Howard Swain | Sep 26, 2024 | All Articles, Culture, EQ, Life, Parenting, Politics, Relationships |
in teg ri ty [in-teg-ri-tee] noun 1. Adherence to moral and ethical principles; soundness of moral character; honesty. 2. The state of being whole, entire, or undiminished: to preserve the integrity of the empire. 3. A sound, unimpaired, or perfect condition: the...
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