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What the Turing Test Is and Why It's No Longer a Challenge for Artificial Intelligence
The Turing Test was AI's holy grail for decades, but a fake Ukrainian boy and modern chatbots reveal why it stopped being a real challenge.
Interview Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology
I leave you my last interview talking about various topics, from entrepreneurship and innovation, to technology and artificial intelligence.
Reverse engineering and analysis of a 2 amp USB charger
Reverse-engineering a 2-amp USB charger to reveal its flyback switching power supply, stage by stage, with a working schematic built from discrete parts.
Testing WebRTC on Elastix 4 (step by step)
A hands-on, step-by-step guide to getting WebRTC working on Elastix 4, from installing the PBX to running a real softphone right inside your browser.
Is Facebook Violating My Privacy to Show Me Ads?
I searched one website at the office, then saw its ad on Facebook at home from a different device. Is this a real privacy violation?
Love Inside a Hollow
A tender story of a couple who buried their fading love beside a tree, only to spend years searching for the one place they could never find.
Open source project: children's playhouse. (with plans)
Build a children's playhouse for under 200 dollars with free plywood plans, a fun DIY Christmas project the kids can paint and decorate too.
The light that came out of your mouth
A tender, surreal love story about a light that pours from a lover's mouth before every word, and the night the narrator follows it inside her.
The MazinMaster Test: The test that will let you know if you are a Mazinger Z guru
The MazinMaster Test is a fiendish 20-question challenge to prove whether you truly are a Mazinger Z guru, devised by a council of 80s anime masters.
When That Day Comes
A tender poem about waiting for a beloved's return, fearing not their change but that the long road home might defeat them before they arrive.
How to replace a vacuum tube with solid state components
When a dead vacuum tube proved impossible to find, I rescued a 1950s Bogen amp by swapping the rectifier valve for simple silicon diodes.
Remembering Yubox: Ecuador's First Linux Distribution
Yubox was Ecuador's first Linux distribution, built from 2004 and abandoned by 2006, yet its story quietly helped give birth to Elastix.
Restoration of an old tube amplifier (valve).
Restoring a 50-year-old Bogen J330 tube amplifier into a guitar amp: paint close to the original, new capacitors and valves, plus before-and-after photos.
Snapple... are you sure about the penguins? Even big brands get it wrong.
A Snapple «real fact» under the cap claimed penguins are the only flightless swimming bird, so I set out to prove the brand wrong about the cormorant.
Irrigation system controlled by telephone. Applications for a PBX at home.
A telephone-controlled garden irrigation system built with Elastix, Asterisk, AGI and Arduino, so a simple phone call turns the sprinklers on.