Tony is a Geek

Found this video this morning and it made me smile.  It resonates close to my view of the world too.  Apologies upfront, if I become an old man and wander off telling you a much longer story linking into the theme so you can get context of what I'm trying to explain.  Apparently, I've hit "that age"... I recall being taught MODULA-2 , PASCAL and then C back in the 1988-1992 period of time. Maybe I just missed those classes at University in late 1992/1993 when they started to talk about C++, I didn't get it, the fact I can still remember the pain of having to try and write a shed load of code to draw a Christmas tree on the screen, with baubles (circles) and the tree structure (triangles) all doing tons of code to setup a structure for object-orientation just for the sake of it. My view, every 10 lines of code you write you introduce a bug of some sort.  You've written 100 lines for a Christmas tree in C++... I even remember getting so annoyed I re-wrot

first, you'll have nodejs already installed and npm v5.2+ installed so you have npx installed too. next, go to the following github repo to follow the instructions:   https://github.com/facebook/create-react-app on a Mac, from a terminal window type: $ mkdir CODE $ cd CODE $ npx create-react-app my-app npx: installed 91 in 108.154s Creating a new React app in /Users/tony/Documents/IBM/GBS/LAND AI/CODE/my-app . Installing packages. This might take a couple of minutes. Installing react , react-dom , and react-scripts ... yarn add v1.19.1 [1/4] 🔍   Resolving packages... [2/4] 🚚   Fetching packages... [3/4] 🔗   Linking dependencies... warning "react-scripts > @typescript-eslint/eslint-plugin > tsutils@3.17.1" has unmet peer dependency "typescript@>=2.8.0 || >= 3.2.0-dev || >= 3.3.0-dev || >= 3.4.0-dev || >= 3.5.0-dev || >= 3.6.0-dev || >= 3.6.0-beta || >= 3.7.0-dev || >= 3.7.0-beta". [4/4]

AI finds a glyph all on it's own...and it's pretty funky!  I want this as my Bluepages image to see if anyone notices :-) and here's the video.  IBM research use AI tech to scan Nazca lines in Peru and find 143 new ones (not saying they are all ancient, but pretty impressive). I was literally talking to my missus about something like this a few weeks back when we were thinking about how we could use AI to search for things.  I was thinking the surface of the moon or the oceans but hey - this is just as good!

Okay, no monarchs have died and I'm not a king nor do I work for one https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_king_is_dead,_long_live_the_king! but, I've officially moved around within IBM...again.  Well, IBM is big enough to have such a vast array of interesting things going on that you really don't need to leave it and work for other companies to get access to more interesting technologies. So what am I doing?  Well....the same as I have been for the past 5-6 years!  But this time, I'm not the geeky specialist kept in a basement ( or customers basement ) working on things that I cannot tell you about.  I'm now being brought out into the light, working for GBS ( shock!horror! as far back as anyone can remember, no Lab Services employee has EVER moved from Lab Services to GBS before, ever...I like a challenge! ).  Therefore, I'm going to have to get more exposure to the outside world and the outside world is going to get more exposure to me. Most people know