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LLMs are great at pattern detection. Use them long enough, and you get good at it too. Smoking guns, being absolutely right, it's not X but Y. They tend to be cute at first, but then these AI-isms become bad jokes after only a few...
Terry Cowan, Predestinated America: Greed has ever been with us, in all places and all times; but this hunger for money had always been called for what it was: avarice. Calvinism, combined with Luther’s concept of a calling in life,...
If it's not one thing, it's another..., EPROM reading, Update?
As a lover girl through and through, I can’t help but look back at all the stupid stuff I did whenever I had a crush on someone. At a young age, I’ve always just thought of crushes as someone you like and never meant to have. Probably...
Generally, I regard FIFA with indifference or vague ill will. I am not into sportsball, the organization is widely regarded as corrupt, it paid fealty to Trump to by awarding him a nonsensical “peace prize” which meant so much to him...
I spent a week in London in a heatwave and I don’t recommend it. London in a heatwave is like the southeastern US in an ice storm. Everything closes, you’re unable to travel anywhere, and it’s too uncomfortable to spend much time...
On Thursday, August 21, 1980, Phil Nelson, a technical support representative at DRI’s headquarters in Pacific Grove, CA, answered a phone call. It was Bill Gates, asking about the status of the CP/M port to the Intel 8086 processor....
Interesting tutorial by Jonas Hietala on designing a personal Pebble watchface. I like the idea of using a watchface to display personal information, and this tutorial provides a good starting point for creating one.
Welcome back. Toe update: two weeks after stubbing my toe it’s still a little painful but gradually less so each day. It was definitely more than a standard stubbing. I’ve been trying not to put too much weight on it, and avoiding any...
“Faced with the choice between changing one’s mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.” John Kenneth GalbraithWhen trying to resist evidence offered for contrarian claims, many invoke the...
All the way into my early forties I was a pretty athletic, fit person. Most of my exercise came from cycling, primarily mountain biking. I had a network of single track directly across from my house for training and then Saturday was...
I had two classic ‘behind the beat‘ moments this week. The first involved taking the reigns in relation to a runaway situation. The second involved seeing something happen and letting it happen (temporarily). My two Deputy Directors were...
I recently acquired an incredible collection of publicity photos and slides from my favorite David Lynch film, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me. These images were released by Spelling Films International in 1992 for markets outside the...
Joan Westenberg: A normal life has room for contradiction. You can care about nutrition and eat cake at a birthday party. You can care about sleep and stay up late sometimes. You can care about politics and have friends who don’t share...
There was not a whole lot going over the last week, besides trying to keep from melting under the obsessive heat that we seem to be under these days. Yesterdays was pretty good, despite getting off to something of a rough start. Came...