Scott Dewing
Jefferson Journal ContributorScott Dewing is a technologist, teacher, and writer. He writes the technology focused column "Inside the Box" for the Jefferson Journal. Scott lives on a low-tech farm in the State of Jefferson. He was born in the same year the Internet was invented and three days before men first landed on the moon. Scott says this doesn't make him special--just old.
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All the big tech companies (and at least one U.S. government agency with the acronym NSA) are in a race to be the first to capture computing’s Holy…
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I’ve been writing about technology for just over a decade now. I’ve worked in the field of information technology for twice as long as that now and, most…
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Here are some things that I learned on the Internet recently: A Boston-area Catholic priest, John Michael O’Neal, suffered a massive heart attack and was…
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A “bit” is the smallest unit of digital information. Put 8 bits together and you get a “byte”. Amass a billion bytes and you have a “gigabyte”. A thousand…
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“Britney Spears InstagramsSelfie With New Boyfriend”That was the headline that caught my eye recently while scrolling through my Twitter feed. No, I’m not…
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According to the RAND Corporation, a nonprofit research and analysis think-tank that claims to have “invented the Postwar World,” the year 2015 is going…
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In Douglas Adam’s novel The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, researchers from a “pan-dimensional, hyper-intelligent race of beings”, construct a super…
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“Deep learning is a set of algorithms in machine learning that attempt to model high-level abstractions in data by using model architectures composed of…
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One of my favorite scenes from the sci-fi movie The Matrix Reloaded, is when the protagonist, Neo, accompanies CouncillorHamann down into the engineering…
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If underwater crustaceans were superheroes, the mantis shrimp would most certainly be one. Mantis shrimp live in shallow tropical and sub-tropical waters.…
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In his essay “The Morality of Things,” the late writer Bruce Chatwin asserted, “All civilizations are by their very nature ‘thing-oriented’ and the main…
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"Someday I’m going to findsomebody and love him andlove him and never let him go.”‑from Tender Is The Nightby F. Scott FitzgeraldYou’re at a party or a…