As AI art has been causing no end of trouble for artists lately, I felt the need to write an article that explains just how primitive the technology actually is. Introduction First of all, we need to make a very important distinction between two terms: AI and Machine Learning (ML), which…

Some months ago, I wrote an article here explaining that the adoption of rollback in fighting games is being overrated somewhat (due to issues of fairness). This remains true, but notably I didn’t have any solutions to offer. There is a possible solution, which is more of a theoretical concept…

The context of this article is a recent tweet from Clip Studio Paint’s developers, stating that they will now be moving to a subscription model instead of their previous one-time purchase model: Some artists have been taking them apart in the quote tweets, to put it mildly, and I…

Recently, several trending art “AIs” have cropped up — from DALL·E to Midjourney to Stable Diffusion, with both plenty of social media coverage and a fear that they could replace artists for particular kinds of work. This article is to explain two things: These “AI” tools are not AI at…

This article is a review/comparison of HostGator and Amazon Lightsail webhosting; it is not sponsored or paid for by either. I recently moved from HostGator’s VPS service to Amazon Lightsail, and thought it would be helpful to write a review of both. I was until recently on Hostgator’s Snappy 2000…

As the fate of cryptocurrencies and NFTs becomes clearer — the latter have mostly died and the former is not looking too good either — there is a specific topic I would like to address: how should those who went into crypto be judged, whether they regret it or not? …

At the moment, I’m developing a website from scratch for artists to upload commission portfolios and a bunch of other things, and as part of that, I looked into React.js as something to potentially help simplify building the front end. …

To begin with, this article talks a lot about Herman Miller chairs. Nothing in this article is sponsored or paid for. I’ve mostly made this article because I find useful information about “what chair to buy” severely lacking online, and it was rather frustrating for me in the past trying…

An often-repeated quote or quotes, are: “Experience is the best teacher” “Failure is the best teacher” In a word: no. This logic is not only often wrong, but frequently leads to dangerous conclusions. Experience does not always teach Experience only teaches what you actually choose — or are able — to learn from it. There…