Author: Ken Pyle, Managing Editor
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Sleep Noise Generator – AI Experiment
A sleep noise generator based on HTML code created by Grok.
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Viodi View – 04/25/26
Umwelt – a word that German biologist Jakob von Uexküll uses to describe the perceptual world of biological organisms. It is the theme of Ed Yong’s book, An Immense World. His book explores the different ways living beings, whether plants, insects, or animals, sense, think, and act. It is no wonder that Professor Kornhauser recommended…
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Viodi View – 03/28/26
Quality of Experience – what does it mean in the context of broadband networks? Does it mean meeting certain technical specifications around attributes like speed, latency, and loss? Does it mean reliability? Or, does it mean other things that are not necessarily technical in nature, but more about basic business building blocks that are measured…
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When Broadband Speeds and Price Don’t Matter
This post could be considered an update of a 2004 article, Cable Modem vs. DSL – From the San Francisco Bay to Tampa Bay That article compared DSL to Cable Modem service provisioning in two different locations. This was the era before smart phones, ubiquitous broadband, and TR-069 for remote management of CPE. DSL was…
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Viodi View – 02/28/26
AI agents create content from the online and real-world zeitgeist. This is one of the epiphanies from a thirty-second music creation experiment. See the Korner for more details on that ViodiTV experiment. But first, we will focus on a key leader in the rural broadband industry. This leader has been prominent for the past couple…
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The Automatic Camera Cleaner for Clear Autonomous Driving
There are generally two camps when it comes to the topic of autonomous vehicle sensing: Camp Fusion believes that fusing multiple sensor types—vision, LiDAR, radar, etc.—is a prerequisite for safety. Members of this camp, such as Zoox and the current iteration of Waymo, argue that sensors like LiDAR and radar provide superhuman perception capabilities that…