technology
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ChatGPT 4 vs. 5 According to ChatGPT 5
This section is a 100% human introduction & musings about ChatGPT 4/5 and the general state of AI… On August 7, 2025, at approximately 9am EST (well, that’s when I looked at it for the first time), Open AI’s GPT-5 was released, launched, and digitally “born” as the new-and-improved, evolved, next-generation version of the platform.…
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AI Told Me: It’s Not Intelligent.
Here’s what I asked ChatGPT: “Explain why AI is not really intelligence.” And here’s what ChatGPT told me: Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a subfield of computer science and engineering that aims to create systems that can perform tasks that would normally require human intelligence, such as recognizing images, understanding natural language, playing games, and more.…
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Manus x Machina (Hand x Machine)
Historically, traditionally, in both haute couture and prêt-à-porter (ready-to-wear) fashion design and production, there was a dichotomy of two methods; a clear division between fashion made manually, by hand (manus) and that which was machine-made (machina). Today, many years after the term “fashion-tech” was coined, the lines between handmade and machine-made have become blurred. A blending and…
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More early fascination with technology…
I used to love going to where my dad worked. Over 20 years at Cambridge Instrument Co., he moved from clerk to personnel manager (HR). It was a factory in the downtown of my hometown Ossining, NY. They manufactured medical and industrial devices and had an electron microscope on premise! For me, it was a…
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Early fascination with technology…
Back in the day, I made all my own Halloween costumes, usually with the help of my father, sometimes my brother, and later on, my stepmother. Halloween (1966?) was was my first foray into technology — as a robot, maybe inspired by Robbie the Robot of Lost In Space — lovingly constructed out of tin…






