The View from Aristeia

Upshot: My EV options remain lousy, they'll probably get worse, and AI chatbots are still terrible search assistants. This post ended...

While digitizing my analog videotapes, I came across a short 1989 demo by Bill Gaver of his SonicFinder™, an interesting piece of early work...

After more than a decade storing photos and videos in iCloud, I decided to download my stuff to my PC and delete the copies at Apple. I figu...

A few years ago, I published a series on metadata in image files with a focus on old slides and photos that had been scanned. I've sinc...

It's been more than two years since I last looked into the availability of all-electric convertibles , so I thought I'd do a quick c...

For six years, I've been in the market for an electric compact SUV. I haven't yet found one with the features I want at a price I...

Finding an Old TV Episode I recently found myself wondering about a TV episode I saw decades ago. I had only the haziest memory of it, so I ...

Yesterday I published the results of my latest testing of German grammar checking systems . Unlike my first round of tests, I included LLMs,...

Update: I have since added Anthropic's Claude to my tested systems, and it outperformed every system I discuss below. Details here .  A ...

In March, I decided to move from Windows to Mac. My goal was texting on the desktop, i.e., texting via my computer. Many people insist on te...