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It’s Official - We’re Expanding
Our occasional collaborator and co-host Dr. Nadine Robinson is now formally working with the Smartypants team to help communicators and adminstrative staff make safe and...
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The Battle of the Bots…And Best Tools for Transcripts
All of the major tech players are releasing every more powerful A.I. tools. While many freelancers just want a reliable way to create transcripts from recordings.
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AI in Everyday Life - Part 1 of 5
The first of five two-hour sessions about AI in Everyday Life. Discussions, demostrations, relevant videos and video clips, documents and some very recent news about the world...
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An Overview of AI in Everyday Life for SCANS (Senior Collage Association of Nova Scotia)
AI seems like it just arrived, when in fact it's pretty much everywhere. This hour-long overview was a pre-amble to a 10-hour course that went far and wide to find real-world...
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An A.I. Presentation for a local Rotary Club
The Halifax Harbour Rotary Club asked for a 15-minute presentation about A.I. and its impact on businesses.
Continue ReadingiPad2 - Two Years On
Product reviews are generally all about being the first out of the gate or second-wave expansions of detail and insight. But it's also worth looking at products after they have some...
Continue ReadingAn open letter to comment spammers
To the brain donors posting comment spam from the IP addresses 217.164.214.91, 110.206.98.78, and 116.54.231.5:
Would you like to know one of the best ways to get someone to dedicate...
Continue ReadingThe Need for Dark and Quiet Spaces
When I first spent a night at the beach house (mid December), it came as a surprise that the house was in a digital blank spot: neither Internet nor cellphone connectivity. Sure, I...
Continue ReadingConstant Contact IP Ranges 208.75.123.0 - 208.75.123.255
In an earlier post, I mused about finding the list of IP addresses that bulk emailer Constant Contact uses to send out their email messages. So today, I went looking.
Among the first...
Continue ReadingDigiweb Ireland Keeps Bank Phisher Online
Three days after we reported to Digiweb.ie that an apparently abandoned web site they host (AskGareth.com) is home to at least three infected directories being used in a global...
Continue ReadingRevealing Glimpse Under the Hood of a Broken Comment Spam Bot
Earlier today, the Smartypants blog received yet another "faux-praise" spam comment - one of those comments that attempt to look legit, but are still obvious spam because of how...
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