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we are even further north in North Dakota. for a short week.

i flew back in on Friday, and leave again on Thursday. 🔥 ( boy are my arms tired!) 💡 ( that feels like almost a normal week? but it will seem short.)

for the week:

• process the ~20 links from last week, currently in browser tabs on the phone
• do some tests of Claude 3.7 . the first test is can it implement a lexer/parser based on a BNF representation.
• in part 2, determine additional programming/education tasks for the week
• some "gardening prep" work. 💡 ( I don't want to do indoor starters until I return from the next trip. but, the weather tomorrow should be good for some raking/digging outside)

I'm not sure yet what evaluations I want to do for Claude 3.7 and/or ChatGPT 4.5.

Some questions I have been pondering asking it to evaluate:

• write the short-story novelization of chess. 💡 ( the stories generated by the current models have all been fairly similar. two kingdoms, one of ebony and one of ivory. rather than fight a war, they use magical powers. the explanations for why each piece moves the way it does are entirely post-hoc.)
• answer some questions about High Physics. 💡 ( Does it even make sense to talk about "the inside" of a black hole, considering it would take an infinite amount of time to reach it?)
• write a lexer/parser based on a BNF spec. 💡 ( these continue to have a few issues)
• improve the graphic design of this website

One of the difficulties is that a truly "frontier" task cannot be effectively graded by the machine, or indeed by non-experts in the field.

education thoughts for the week:

• "reader" texts. designed to train elocution. 🔥 ( unique new york. how now brown cow.)
• is reading "comprehension" different from short-term memory?
• the differences between primary education and secondary education. roughly: secondary ⚙️ ( middle school and high school) students should be expected to do a certain amount of "independent learning". students who cannot do so, should be in an alternative program. 🔥 ( the "Least Restrictive Environment" clause of the IDEA was unavailable for comment.)
• using "word lists" to generate grade level texts; also, a better terminology than grade level

other tasks will be minimal. it is a short week; I fly out very early on Thursday.