by Scott Howard Swain | Dec 29, 2025 | AGI, AI, All Articles, Business, Corruption, LLM, Machine Learning, ML, Politics |
Rarely do I see people talking about exponential growth of AI capability and few about any kind of growth. Too many seem to base their predictions on current state of the art with barely a hat tip to the increase in capability we’ve seen in just the past 2...
by Scott Howard Swain | Dec 28, 2025 | AGI, AI, All Articles, Business, Corruption, LLM, Machine Learning, ML, Politics |
For nearly a decade, the “Attention Is All You Need” paper defined the laws of artificial intelligence. The Transformer architecture was the hammer, and every problem was a nail. But as we close out 2025, the era of “peak Transformer” is behind...
by Scott Howard Swain | Dec 23, 2025 | AI, All Articles, Coding Assistants, LLM, Machine Learning |
A couple quotes that caught my eye today: “We are dangerously confusing computational speed with legal reasoning. While AI can be extraordinarily useful, it cannot replace the reasoning of educated, experienced lawyers. The fact is that AI only simulates...
by Scott Howard Swain | Dec 13, 2025 | AI, All Articles, Coding Assistants, LLM, Machine Learning |
“An interesting trend I’m seeing is that some of the most elite teams are abandoning AI coding altogether.” I hear this is happening in some companies and figure it is because:(a) They either started too soon (before LLMs were smart enough;(b) They...
by Scott Howard Swain | Dec 5, 2025 | All Articles, Business, Culture, EQ, Life, Parenting, PEP, Relationships |
After 35+ years studying human behavior, 20+ years doing the Practical Empathy Practice (PEP), and some dabbling in evolutionary biology/psychology/sociology, I’ve come to the conclusion that we’re naturally wired to help each other. Your daily acts of...
by Scott Howard Swain | Nov 9, 2025 | AI, All Articles, Coding Assistants, LLM, Machine Learning |
Want a free customizable AI coding team! Use it to create new apps or make changes/additions to existing ones. This set of instructions (markdown files) enhances and extends the modes/agents that come with many coding agent/asisstants (or make your own). The...
by Scott Howard Swain | Nov 7, 2025 | All Articles, Health, Life |
Health Risks: Dextrose and Maltodextrin List 1: Common Issues (Both Dextrose & Maltodextrin) – Rapid blood sugar/insulin spikes: Both have high glycemic index (dextrose ~100, maltodextrin 85–105+), driving sharp glucose and insulin rises followed by...
by Scott Howard Swain | Nov 7, 2025 | All Articles, Health, Life |
Riesgos para la Salud: Dextrosa y Maltodextrina Lista 1: Problemas Comunes (Tanto Dextrosa como Maltodextrina) – Picos rápidos de azúcar en sangre/insulina: Ambas tienen índice glucémico alto (dextrosa ~100, maltodextrina 85–105+), provocando aumentos bruscos de...
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...
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