Slope of Hope Blog Posts

Slope initially began as a blog, so this is where most of the website’s content resides. Here we have tens of thousands of posts dating back over a decade. These are listed in reverse chronological order. Click on any category icon below to see posts tagged with that particular subject, or click on a word in the category cloud on the right side of the screen for more specific choices.

Samson Mowed Over

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I’m not sure what it is about me, but it really, really bothers me when people spew absolute crap just to get attention. I’m weird that way. Take Samson Mow (please!) who apparently is staking his entire future on crypto. When the ETFs were risibly introduced just days ago, he spouted off that BTC would be a million bucks in a matter of “days or weeks“. Well, BTC better flip around fast and go up by 25-fold in a big hurry, or else Samson Mow is going to look like a total asshole.

More ChatGPT Amaze-Balls

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Hoo boy.

OK, so in my never-ending quest to find out what in the holy hell all the excitement about AI is, I decided to dip the ladle into the waters again, so I went into the ChatGPT store. I tried to think of an interesting topic, so I typed “bitcoin” and, voila, there were a variety of ready-to-use products, the topmost of which had the intriguing product named Bitcoin Price Predictor. Since I’m in the business of predicting future prices of financial instruments, I figured this would be fascinating!

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