by me, Kerry Burgess, 01/15/2026 11:33 AM
Would it be funny to learn that Ford auto-worker had never heard of Jeffrey Epstein before that incident a few days ago?
That it was not Trump he was referring to?
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/suspended-ford-worker-flipped-off-171757356.html
Yahoo! News
Jalopnik
Suspended Ford Worker Who Was Flipped Off By Trump Made So Much Money On GoFundMe He Paused Donations
Andy Kalmowitz
Thu, January 15, 2026 at 9:17 AM PST
From 3/10/2023 ( ) To 1/13/2026 ( ) is 1040 days
1040 = 520 + 520
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 4/6/1967 ( premiere USA TV series episode "Star Trek"::"The City on the Edge of Forever" ) is 520 days
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https://twitter.com/pawprinceton/status/1634199700462260224
Princeton Alumni Weekly @pawprinceton
The Princeton Alumni Weekly — known as PAW — is an editorially independent magazine by alumni for alumni since 1900.
Could #ChatGPT produce acceptable academic work at #Princeton? Don’t be too confident that it couldn’t.
“I had to read some of the answers three times before feeling confident I was reading nonsense,” tweeted computer science professor @random_walker
paw.princeton.edu
Wrap Your Brain Around This.
Let’s start with a simple question:What is ChatGPT, the new text-generating software from the research lab OpenAI?
6:29 AM March 10, 2023
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Arvind Narayanan @random_walker
Princeton computer science prof. I tweet about AI hype, social media platforms, tech ethics, & academic life. BOOK: AI Snake Oil http://aisnakeoil.substack.com
P. S. This is hopefully obvious if you follow my writing, but I would never describe my work as "teach[ing] machines to be fair". Fairness, or lack thereof, isn't a property of machines, but of the systems of power that deploy them.
8:29 AM March 10, 2023
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compiler
Compiler
From Wikipedia
In computing, a compiler is software that translates computer code written in one programming language (the source language) into another language (the target language). The name "compiler" is primarily used for programs that translate source code from a high-level programming language to a low-level programming language (e.g. assembly language, object code, or machine code) to create an executable program.
History
Main article: History of compiler construction
Theoretical computing concepts developed by scientists, mathematicians, and engineers formed the basis of digital modern computing development during World War II. Primitive binary languages evolved because digital devices only understand ones and zeros and the circuit patterns in the underlying machine architecture. In the late 1940s, assembly languages were created to offer a more workable abstraction of the computer architectures.
Backus–Naur form (BNF) describes the syntax of "sentences" of a language. It was developed by John Backus and used for the syntax of Algol 60. The ideas derive from the context-free grammar concepts by linguist Noam Chomsky. "BNF and its extensions have become standard tools for describing the syntax of programming notations. In many cases, parts of compilers are generated automatically from a BNF description."
Between 1942 and 1945, Konrad Zuse designed the first (algorithmic) programming language for computers called Plankalkül ("Plan Calculus"). Zuse also envisioned a Planfertigungsgerät ("Plan assembly device") to automatically translate the mathematical formulation of a program into machine-readable punched film stock. While no actual implementation occurred until the 1970s, it presented concepts later seen in APL designed by Ken Iverson in the late 1950s. APL is a language for mathematical computations.
Between 1949 and 1951, Heinz Rutishauser proposed Superplan, a high-level language and automatic translator. His ideas were later refined by Friedrich L. Bauer and Klaus Samelson.
"The City on the Edge of Forever" [ Star Trek ]
Original Airdate: Apr 6, 1967
(from internet transcript)
Captain's log, no stardate. For us, time does not exist. McCoy, back somewhere in the past, has effected a change in the course of time. All Earth history has been changed. There is no starship Enterprise. We have only one chance. We have asked the Guardian to show us Earth's history again. Spock and I will go back into time ourselves and attempt to set right what ever it was that McCoy changed.
SPOCK: I was recording images at the time McCoy left. A rather barbaric period in your American history.
From 5/4/2005 ( the incident at the police department City of Kent Washington State after my voluntary approach to report material criminal activity directed against my person and I am secretly drugged against my consent ) To 1/13/2026 ( ) is 7559 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 7/14/1986 ( premiere USA film "Aliens" ) is 7559 days
IMDb
Aliens (1986)
Quotes
Newt: My mommy always said there were no monsters - no real ones - but there are.
Ripley: Yes, there are, aren't there?
Newt: Why do they tell little kids that?
- by me, Kerry Wayne Burgess, posted by me: 12:05 PM Pacific-timezone USA Thursday 01/15/2026
