Dear Editor, There are so many people to thank for helping to make the fourth annual Nick Lancaster Memorial Golf Tournament the huge success that it was! This tournament would not have succeeded without the players, sponsors, volunteers and over the top golf course staff. The following businesses/individuals sponsored holes,[Read More…]
Opinion
Letters from History, No. 6 Part 1
The White River Museum has a collection of letters that Meeker founding father Thomas Baker kept for many years. There are letters from Nathan Meeker and prominent figures like Chief Ouray, ex-Indian Agents, and the violently anti-Indian Colorado Governor Pitkin, as well as various Army officers from 1874-1879. The letters[Read More…]
How AI and ChatGPT work, Part 2
RBC | Last week I gave a quick overview of ChatGPT and what it can do. In this article I will explain its underlying computational circuitry and how it is trained. I will hack through some dense thickets, try to explain with familiar analogies. The details can be daunting. I[Read More…]
Editor’s Column: What do we see?
“Cyberspace is a funhouse mirror of our own society.” Bruce Sterling During the previous century (late 1990s), when I told a friend I was moving to Meeker she flinched. She’d recently been on a cross-country flight and her seatmate turned out to be from Meeker. They’d told her the town[Read More…]
GUESS WHAT …
ED PECK PHOTO/CUTLINE These tools had very specific uses. What were they? Answers here.
Letters to the Editor: July 13, 2023
Thanks for 80th birthday celebration Dear Editor, I would like to shout a big thank you to my children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren for coming from all over the country to celebrate my 80th birthday. Thank you to all of my dear friends, loving family and my great former students that[Read More…]
Loose Ends: Reactivating the rumor mill
By DOLLY VISCARDI Special to the Herald Times The sunny weather throughout these summer months results in so many folks continuing to get together. Catching up on the all the news is the good side effect, the reactivation of the rumor mill is not. The most recent warnings of the[Read More…]
Guest Column: Artificial intelligence and you, Part 1
An alien intelligence arrived on planet Earth at the end of last year. Perhaps you didn’t notice. It made the news, and it’s been in the news in the meantime. But unless you’ve paid particular attention you might not know what it’s doing. Our schoolkids certainly know about it. They[Read More…]
Editor’s Column: ‘Should-er’s full!”
“Should is a futile word. It’s about what didn’t happen. It belongs in a parallel universe. It belongs in another dimension of space.” ~ Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin By NIKI TURNER [email protected] Years ago a friend admonished me during one of my self-deprecating diatribes about how I was failing[Read More…]
Guest Column: Paul Revere
One of the pitfalls in studying history is the lack of fact-checking. Once an action has been recorded in print, it becomes gospel. A mistake is self-perpetuating. This has been amplified a hundredfold in our age of social media, but it certainly didn’t start there. I would like to take[Read More…]
Veteran’s Corner: Write your Congressmen
In 1979 my 1st Sgt. told me, “When you have tried following the proper channels and gone up the Chain of Command then you can write your Congressman. Please feel free to copy my letter and share your thoughts with our Congresswoman, Lauren Boebert. She is first rate. My wife[Read More…]
Letter: Thank you to Meeker fire crew, PMC staff
Dear Editor, Meeker is blessed to have folks like these: Thank you to the Meeker Volunteer Fire Department. Last month they helped save my father-in law’s barn from burning down. Quick response, professional performance. Thank you to the folks at Pioneer Medical Center. Last month I had a medical emergency[Read More…]
