Jan 19 – Feb 6, 2025
https://www.liberalpatriot.com/p/the-presidency-has-become-too-powerful not sure I endorse this post.
when in doubt, dig deeper
In The News: << Democrats accuse DOGE of going after NOAA https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/5128418-democrats-accuse-musk-doge-noaa/ well, actually, "provide weather forecasts" isn't in the Constitution. but maybe it should be.
i have about 2 free hours before lunch to try more LLM features for Atacama.
I asked the machine to talk about register.
a line, from earlier, possibly true: << the average person spends less than 1 hour per week doing elective reading .
You either die a rebel, or live long enough to understand the reasons for the system.
there is a balance between << the machine should be generating camera-ready output and << the machine should not be generating camera-ready output .
in a market where "independent" providers are a market for lemons, a single trust-worthy entity will out-compete them.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42934447
half of all lawyer-ing is organizing documents.
the search for jobs is not yet bearing fruit.
when I ask the machine to make a worksheet, it comes out with something that looks terrible.
The monthly Hacker News << Who is Hiring? thread is up.
I asked the machine to summarize some of my thoughts about the relationship with Linaja. It is directionally correct, but misses a few points.
the news is too filled with lies. i cannot repeat any of it.
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what does it mean to think with voice? it means to breathe with the words, pausing when necessary, but remaining in normal form.
time check 1620Central.
now with less politics.
this morning's exercise: sixteen different "colors" for comments. as far as << the taxonomy becoming too large to be sorted by color ... yes? That is a problem we will solve later.
https://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/documents/rc_ddf_doc_20250128_antiqua-et-nova_en.html
levy rozman tries to understand the machine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHq4EKMg7fI
clearly my timing is off this week.
the Outstanding Question is: << why do people feel so much better about the machine when it phrases its answer in a way that makes them feel smart ? when you phrase it that way, the answer is kind-of obvious
I find myself wanting to block Reddit, etc. on the router level. There is nothing worth reading there.
yesterday was a day for "rough drafts" (written elsewhere) and job applications. a rough draft of my future!
When looking at historical chess matches, it is interesting to note that neither player would have had (or understood) computer analysis of positions.
https://www.chess.com/news/view/being-a-chess-professional-in-europe-sucks-blohberger
yesterday:
the new "lexer"-based parser has crossed the hump of possibility.
things done on Atacama yesterday:
other than "get Claude to write a regression test", my attention was on projects other than Atacama yesterday.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsI3pThlmXs << WATCH: U.S. Naval Academy Glee Club performs ‘Battle Hymn of the Republic’ | Trump 2025 Inauguration
An idea just spitballing: what if you got one point for each "doink" when the bank hits the uprights of the field goal post on a field goal attempt?
I appear to be heading south from Alberta.