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Faster Horses and Smarter CPUs: Why True Innovation Still Bows to Convenience
April 2, 2025
It's 2025. We carry AI in our pockets, stream 8K video on demand, and talk to chatbots that can quote Shakespeare, debug code, and flirt all in the same breath. We've mapped the human genome, landed rovers on Mars, and built quantum computers in glass-walled labs. And yet, here we are, still shackled to the same CPU structure we had 20, 30, even 50 years ago.
Why? Because convenience rules.
Let's back up a second.
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On the road, again
March 10, 2025
Yes, I'm on the road, again. If you have been following my journey across and up and down South America, you might remember I wrote that I was in Paraguay and planned on staying there. Well, I've changed my mind.
This time my visit to Encarnación was during the summer months - mid-December to early February. And my word, it's hot! After seven years in Tucson, Arizona, and 9 years on the Caribbean coast of Colombia, I thought I was well acclimated to hot weather. But I certainly wasn't acclimated enough for the hot summer in Encarnación!
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Comparing Tucson, AZ, Encarnación, Paraguay, and Barranquilla, Colombia
February 25, 2025
A chat with ChatGPT
You said:
When looking at the globe on Google Earth and comparing the locations of Tucson, AZ (approx. 32 degnorth) and Encarnaction, Paraguay (approx. 27 deg south) - It's interesting comparing the climates. I've lived in bothcities and it seems Tucson is actually a more mild year-round on average climate than Encarnacion.
ChatGPT said:
That is an interesting observation! Looking purely at latitude, Tucson and Encarnación are insomewhat similar positions relative to their respective hemispheres. However, their climates are shaped by vastlydifferent factors. Comparing Climates: Tucson vs. Encarnación
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Encarnación, Paraguay Expatriat Community
January 27, 2025
Here in Encarnación there is an expat group meetup twice a month. I'm surprised by the number of expats in this small city. Many of those expatriates (expats) come from Ukraine. According to the Ukrainian World Congress, there are supposedly 40,000 Ukrainians living in Paraguay. Ukrainians first came from Argentina, just across the Paraná River from Encarnacón, in the 1920s due to the economic problems at that time. They started arriving in Argentina in the late 19th century.
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Encarnación, Paraguay
December 14, 2024
After a quite stormy afternoon and evening in Paraguarí, I arrived in Encarnación in the afternoon on the 11th.
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