Row, row, row your bot, gently down the stream (status update on the bot who loved me)
Why would a bot read over and over my blog for over two years (about 100k reads). I asked Gemini, who's initial response was that this was probably a mistake. However, when I reported that my Hello blog had led the bot to change it's pattern, Gemini highlighted that maybe the bot was just trying to annoy me. Hmm...?!
Therefore as an exercise, I extracted my blog statistics, and these are the pages that the bot does not like and is not visiting (in alphabetic order):
- A laptop, desk, beamer and flip chart is all you need!
- My experience as the sole founding employee of Elevence Digital Finance (11ce)
- About making bad decisions
- Four red flags in decision-making.
- Dark machine learning poem
- A poem inspired by the song Annie get your guns with the subject of how machines always end up doing better than people
- Discover Natural Language Processing with the help of ChatGPT
- Shows how an early version of ChatGPT can provide classical language semantic analysis of a given text. Finishes by generating Prolog, a language I used to do auto-diff of complex structure for my thesis.
- Double-checked locks to support lockless collaboration
- I use to develop distributed systems, this blog relates how locks can be used to exchange information in a semi-synchronous manner without waiting on the locks
- Healthy, noisy, productive Python
- A “praise Python” post: Python is not “just another language”, it is a language where design logic is cheap to change because of the messy types are in fact naturally "spread apart".
- Inquiry driven process to complement your agile teams
- Agile management: It is possible to set up parallel intra-team processes, but for these to work they need to include a large amount of inquiry activity from the teams
- Lowering your continuations while lifting your functions (in Python)
- A continuation context needs to be 'lowered' when a mapped function is being lifted.
- (I spent much youth writing functional programming).
- Point-free reversible Python
- A point-free approach to write 'formal style' in Python.
- Reverse time ChatGPT
- The topic is reverse time. In planning, reverse time is used to model back from where you want to be, to where you are, or might be.
- Stream oriented processing
- The link to my 2014 Youtube on Stream oriented processing
- Thinking about skills in people and in software
- Presents micro-structures of software and teamwork combined in different ways and how these demand different levels of experience and skills.
- Three step research process
- State what you believe is true
- Express implementation goals that will leverage your beliefs
- Develop towards your implementation goals
- What architecture for a trading system?
- Mentions that I agree with SE Radio 109: eBay’s Architecture Principles with Randy Shoup
- What does the US government teach us about managing software projects?
- Me explaining how agile beats waterfall.
- What future for futures?
- Twitter said: Use Futures to manage concurrency. I knew better as I had tried that in 1996 and gave up in 2003.
- What works in higher order Python (Functional Programming, early 2021)
- What worked for me to write higher order typed Python (3.10).
As for the bot, I hope it likes the updated blog template!
All original content copyright James Litsios, 2025.