Paddy Deighan Real Estate Blog

During the weekly Zoom call, we discussed, inter alia (my favorite legal term that means "among other things") energy demands from EVs, Big Data, and life in general.  Our power grid is ancient and incapable of providing what we need currently - not to mention what we WILL need as demand increase...

During our AI Zoom calls and in some blogs, we see the term "AI Agents (AIA)". Sometimes it is difficult to distinguish them from Virtual Assistants (VAs) and Digital Assistants (DAs). The term began to take hold in May 2024 when Google unveiled Astra, an AI Agent. Users can interact with audio A...

A new study by MIT physicists proposes that a mysterious force known as early dark energy could solve two of the biggest puzzles in cosmology and fill in some major gaps in our understanding of how the early universe evolved. One puzzle in question is the "Hubble tension," which refers to a misma...

Logging into apps and accounts is becoming harder and harder and yet we still are routinely hacked.  I was ecstatic when face recognition became a standard (even though it has some nefarious governmental uses)!  This SHOULD have been the end of annoying captchas and email or SMS verification. Ala...

The monthly inflation report was cheered for posting a 2.9% annualized rate, the details of the report showed a much different picture.On a monthly basis, inflation is accelerating. Plus, if you strip out the temporary phenomenon of falling used car prices, the actual rate of inflation is closer ...

Wallet Hub announced its ten best places to live today and I was very surprised at the results.  Weather means a lot to me and many of these places tend to be colder weather climates.Wallet Hub based its results on 6 criteria: Affordability, Economy, Education, health, quality of life and safety....

On the weekly Zoom call we challenged ourselves to create an image of a home with something unique in the window. The entries so far are creative, fun and appealing.  This fun and exciting challenge yielded amazing results and my image is visible here. I could not get the Samoyed in the house.......

We have been discussing various aspects of Artificial Intelligence lately...we have another Zoom call Tuesday the 16th at 02:00 PM EDT!! Lately, people have been asking me about generative BI.Generative BI is a combination of Generative (AI) and BI. BI means Business Intelligence and the term has...

There certainly isn't a lack of chatter about AI...some of it comes from me!!! It seems appropriate to discuss the uses for AI....with an emphasis on those of us on Active Rain.Every day we are bombarded by ads that tell us that AI can improve our lives. A lot of it is hype. However, there are a ...

Chuck Todd is the Chief Political Analyst for NBC news. This week, he revealed that a member of President Biden’s cabinet told him Biden was mentally unfit for office... two years ago.That’s an interesting time-line for a “journalist” to break an exclusive story about someone in the highest echel...