Articles & Other Musings

Articles & Other Musings

ChatGPT? Artificial Intelligence mapping of the human brain. Image used under Creative Commons License ... "Artificial Intelligence - Resembling Human Brain" by deepakiqlect is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0.
Computing

ChatGPT-4: not always what you ask

Shall we play a game? In my continuing saga of messing around with OpenAI‘s ChatGPT-4’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) Large Language Model (LLM), I have noticed that its not always what you ask it, but rather how you phrase your questions ChatGPT-4 rightly has a number

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Information Security Training - Keyboard showing a lock and SECURITY buttons
Security

Information Security Training: Why & How

Empowering Your Workforce to Safeguard Your Organization’s Digital Assets Introduction In today’s regulatory, litigious and online world, information security is a top priority for businesses of all sizes. With the increased reliance on technology and remote work, the potential for cyber threats is higher than

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Black and white image of a vintage subway car appearing to move through tunnels at speed. HDR Photo
Photography

NY Transit Museum – Moving in Time

I am still going through and processing photos taken last month at the New York Transit Museum in Brooklyn. This is a single exposure HDR image taken with a Sony A7Riv and a Laowa 15mm f/2 lens. One thing I wanted to try was modifying

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Computing

ChatGPT 4.0 – more blogging via Artificial Intelligence

[Author’s Note] The following was part of my testing of artificial intelligence (specifically ChatGPT’s) ability to write technical blog posts and also create training materials for developers to better understand secure coding practices. I used ChatGPT 4.0 for this and may go back and refine

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Computing

Fooling around with ChatGPT 4.0

Messing around with ChatGPT 4.0 So, like a lot of people I have been intrigued by ChatGPT and now that the 4.0 version has been released, I’ve signed up for a paid account to see what else I can do with it. I’ve gone down

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HDR Image of rusting industrial buildings of a former steel mill at Steel Stacks, Bethlehem, PA
Photography

Rust, Decay and Beauty

About six months ago I moved to Bethlehem, PA from the Pocono Mountains. My new place is on the South Side in the Arts District, a few blocks from Steel Stacks. This is the former home of Bethlehem Steel, which is now a 10 acre

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Creative / Writers Block
Computing

Rebuilding and Redesigning this site

Sometimes the best way out of a slump is to gut the project and redesigning it from the ground up … So, I’ve been a major creative slump with a lot of things going on in my personal and professional lives – as well as

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black and white image of a subway car interior at the NYC Transit Museum - Brooklyn, New York City
Photography

Brooklyn Transit Museum

A few weeks ago I visited the New York City Transit Museum to take photos of the old subway cars, machines and so many amazing vintage signs. It was a beautiful day out and one of my favorite human beings and photographers took me for

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Personal

Mother’s Day Present for Me

Happy Mother’s Day to all the moms out there! So, I don’t get into this publicly often. I lost my mother to cancer when I was just shy of ten years old, and she was 32. Like a lot of children, my mother was my

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