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About Rob Reiner RIP & Which Movie is Rated on a 1-11 Scale

December 15th, 2025 · No Comments

Hearing the recent news about Rob Reiner made me want to write about some of his work that has followed me since childhood. Family & influences Reiner, born in 1947 to a Jewish family in New York, was the son of Carl Reiner, an actor and director who was also a beloved figure in the […]

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Using AI to Help You Score Survey Forms (Excel or Google sheets)

December 10th, 2025 · No Comments

Scoring questionnaires can be exhausting, especially the ones that have many participants, or several scales, or reversed items, meaning you can’t just sum the scores. You can use AI to score questionnaires but as with any task you want the AI to do, you need to give AI a clear prompt (instructions). Here are my […]

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On Hyperlinks and Why They Are Blue?

December 6th, 2025 · No Comments

How many links did you click on today? probably more than you can count! Today, hyperlinks are instantly recognizable, and most of us don’t think about how we spot them. Early hyperlinks, however, did not look the way they do now. At first, hyperlinks were hard to spot, but in the very early web (early […]

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Reuters: Meta is earning a fortune from fraudulent Facebook ads, documents show

November 9th, 2025 · No Comments

A very recent and disturbing article from Reuters claims that Meta, the mother company that owns Facebook, projected (implying awareness) 10% of its 2024 revenue would come from publishing scammers ads. The social media giant internally estimates that its platforms show users 15 billion scam ads a day. Meta internally projected late last year that […]

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More Web Content is Now Created by AI Than Humans

October 22nd, 2025 · No Comments

I’ve read an interesting article that was published by Graphite – a company specializing in SEO (search engine optimization), content strategy, and AI-driven marketing. Their research aim was to find out the percentage of content generated by AI. For that, they analyzed 65,000 English-language URLs from the archives of Common Crawl (a nonprofit organization that […]

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