Colin Fraser

West Orange

Editor and Columnis at Inside Motorcycles

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Niko B - People (EP) — WORDPLAY

2 weeks ago | wordplaymagazine.com | Colin Fraser

Niko B’s People turns everyday moments into something quietly unforgettable. Niko B’s latest EP People is a short but sunny offering that captures the artist’s signature blend of observational wit and everyday charm. Across just three tracks - Hairclips, I like the way you talk looking at me, and What am I to do - he delivers breezy, optimistic music rooted in the quirks of real life. The tone is light-hearted and warm, with lyrics that feel more like conversations than performances.
California Bill Proposes A Vacancy Tax On Commercial Real Property

2 months ago | mondaq.com | Bradley R. Marsh |Cris K. O'Neall |Ruben Sislyan |Colin Fraser

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Property Tax Relief For Southern California Property Owners Affected By The Recent Palisades, Eaton, And Other Fires And Windstorm Conditions

Jan 28, 2025 | mondaq.com | Bradley R. Marsh |Cris K. O'Neall |Ruben Sislyan |Colin Fraser

Recent fires in Southern California, including the Palisades,Eaton, and Sunset fires, have collectively burned tens of thousandsof acres and devastated communities across the Greater Los Angelesarea. More than 12,000 structures have been destroyed or damaged,including homes and businesses, and initial estimates have placedthis emergency among the most destructive in California history. OnJan.
Would a Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) ever go to prison?

Aug 22, 2024 | securitybrief.co.uk | Colin Fraser

In a world where business-destroying cyber attacks happen daily, the question of who is to blame continually surfaces. Is it the employee who clicks on the fluffy cat image that turns out to be ransomware? Or is it the CISO (Chief Information Security Officer) for not doing more to arm their workforce with the cyber intel needed to identify malicious mail?
Maryland’s 175,000-person marijuana pardon is a workforce win

Jun 18, 2024 | technical.ly | Colin Fraser

Maryland Gov. Wes Moore’s momentous decision to pardon nearly 175,000 marijuana-related offenses isn’t just a step towards rectifying past injustices. It’s also a significant opportunity to redefine our workforce and community dynamics. One of the largest such acts of clemency in the US to date, the sweeping move is expected to affect the records of up to 100,000 individuals.
Hallucinations, Errors, and Dreams

Apr 17, 2024 | medium.com | Colin Fraser

In the old days before all this generative stuff, most AI was concerned with the problem of making very specific guesses about narrow classes of outcomes. Will this user click on this link? What kind of object is depicted in this picture? How much will this stock be worth tomorrow? Each of these questions would be answered by a discrete computer program whose only job is to answer the question it was built to answer. How do we build a computer program to solve one of those problems?
Generative AI is a hammer and no one knows what is and isn't a nail

Feb 22, 2024 | medium.com | Colin Fraser

You may have already gotten this, but I suggest that the release of ChatGPT was a little bit like the allegorical release of the hammer. Huge generative AI models like ChatGPT, Stable Diffusion, Sora, and so on, are a new and surprising subcategory of AI technology with a wide and rapidly expanding range of potential uses.
California Court of Appeal Landmark Opinion Expands Intangible Asset Exemption from Property Tax Assessment

Nov 20, 2023 | natlawreview.com | Colin Fraser

On April 7, 2023, the Second District of the California Court of Appeal published a landmark opinion on California property tax law that expands the tax-exempt status of intangible assets, holding that transient occupancy tax reimbursements and key money payments are intangible assets and that the “Rushmore Method” of removing intangibles from assessment is legally invalid. See Olympic and Georgia Partners, LLC v.
FIRST PERSON | I loved being a medic but I couldn't accept the dysfunction in our system | CBC News

Aug 6, 2023 | cbc.ca | Colin Fraser

This First Person column was written by Colin Fraser, a former paramedic who lives in Calgary. For more information about CBC's First Person stories, please see the FAQ. I saw my partner at the triage desk shake his head and roll his eyes. We were finally at Calgary's Foothills intensive care unit with a patient who had bounced all the way down Highway 2 from central Alberta with multiple drip infusions and on a ventilator.