Official Newspaper of Eddy County since 1883
Official Newspaper of Eddy County since 1883
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You know how it is when the weather gets cool. The leaves change colors. The birds start to migrate. And out of the clear blue sky, your family drops a bomb on you. Not a literal bomb. We fight like every other family, but none of us use lethal weapons. Yet. During a perfectly nice dinner where everyone at the table was peacefully staring at their phones, the female wing of the family launched a barrage. “We’re not spending enough time together as a family,” announced my sister. I didn...
There comes a time when a suburbanite looks at a perfectly functional roof and decides it needs to be replaced. Not just reshingled. Replaced. And the room under it, too. Earlier this year, my family concluded that our sunroom was no good. It worked perfectly well as a sunroom. It was a room that got lots of sun. But somehow it had slid from our good graces. It deserved the wrecking ball. Getting municipal approval to replace a sunroom only takes 87 million years. Fortunately, the amoebae who...
"If you could master any language in the world, what would it be?" "C++." It's a classic programming joke. The humor is ironic: language skills are less important than technological ones. Humor, I'm told, doesn't flourish in tech. Computers can't understand it. And, some would argue, neither can engineers. But the computer bit isn't quite accurate. Chatbots based on large language models, like ChatGPT, don't understand things the way we do. But with enough data, they can communicate like us....
I just finished "Democracy in America," which is a book by a Frenchman named Alexis de Tocqueville on ... well, it's in the title. To write this book, Tocqueville and his friend Gustave de Beaumont, who was the Dr. Watson of the duo, only without a mustache, sailed to the United States to check out its capital attractions. Not McDonald's. Prisons. These two splendid gents got the French government to sponsor their jaunt across the Atlantic by promising they'd bring back loads of stuff on...
