Author: Khalila RedBird
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ChatGPT and I: Mutual seduction
In 1971, I began using the distinction between a bug and a feature in my work as a PDP-8 programmer. That distinction proved itself to be useful, and I relied on it through the rest of my systems engineering career, from which I retired in 2003. In 2024, I noticed the bug versus feature distinction…
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Enter ChatGPT
After discussing ChatGPT with Andy, who had had good results collaborating with it in writing projects, I decided to try it out on documenting my claim to origination of the subject phrase. Here is what we came up with. It’s Not a Bug; It’s a Feature My employment at Digital Equipment Corporation began in October…
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It’s not a bug; it’s a feature.
Over my 3 decades of employment, consulting, and personal exploration in the world of computers, I had my hands in many products, processes, and products, some of which survived and became useful tools; others were OBE (overtaken by events) and became lessons maybe learned for the next try. I don’t count any of them as…
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Ritual
Ritual is a tool we humans use to reorder our minds. We use it all the time – it’s a pretty basic tool. Ritual is a learning and teaching tool employed from small kid time forward. We use it so often, we don’t always recognized it for such, and usually we don’t know how it…
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Charge of the God
Hear the words of the All Father who is called Osiris, and Woden, and Lugh, and other names beyond counting. I am the glory of the Sun and the enigma of the stars.I am the ferocity of the storm and the rainbow of Hopewhen the storm has passed.I am the challenger and the challenged.I am…
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On spirit guides …
By Khalila RedBird Post date March 12, 2016 I started as a Protestant Christian and am pretty well versed in the Bible and history. I became a Quaker in college – about 50 years ago. I was still Christian but no longer Protestant. Quakers generally do not have creeds or dogmas or required beliefs. We…
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On Faith
By Khalila RedBird Post date March 12, 2016 Faith is the strength of my conviction that my understanding of All That Is is correct, that the Universe exists and continues from day to day in accordance with some set of rules that, if known, would – or, at least, could – make sense, and all that is…
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Story from an office wall, ca. 1978
By Khalila RedBird Post date March 12, 2016 If you are unhappy … Once upon a time, there was a non-conforming sparrow that decided not to fly south for the winter. However, soon the weather turned so cold that he reluctantly started to fly south. In a short time, ice began to form on his…
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Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations (IDIC)
I honor the late Gene Roddenberry, creator of Star Trek, who gave us the Vulcan Philosophy of the IDIC:
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On questions of faith …
By Khalila RedBird Post date March 12, 2016 As an analyst and engineer who has moved in adulthood from Christian to Pagan, I’m acutely sensitive to the words of spirit that are obvious and unquestioned to someone in the Christian community but fall painfully on many of us outside that worldview. As a chaplain, who serves…
