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city of corpus christi, part 3
hopefully it is working now.
city of corpus christi, part 2
part two.
not sure if city, or ship.
A key distinction in language learning is between ambiguity that exists at the word level versus information that simply isn't encoded in the source language at all. Many words appear ambiguous in isolation but become clear in actual sentences through grammar and context. For example, "lay" might…
two news topics today.
the goal for this afternoon is to finish the "lake andes" chain of emails.
tasks for the next 24 hours:
In Lithuanian, the term for "Lithuanian language" is << Lietuvių kalba , for "Lithuanian man" is << lietuvis , and for "Lithuanian woman" is << lietuvė .
Lake Andes is located in southern South Dakota, part of the Yankton Sioux reservation.
yesterday was mostly unexciting tasks, such as:
regarding the last feature list:
Three of the Trakaido fixes are done: the << hover issues, the << multiple-choice answer count issues, and the forgotten last dispatch, but also important << improved word selection algorithm issues.
Monango, North Dakota is a small rural town located in Dickey County, in the southeastern part of the state. With a population of under 50 residents, it's one of the least populous communities in North Dakota. The town is surrounded by wide stretches of farmland and prairie, reflecting its strong…
the Trakaido project continues.
Another round of desired feature requests.
An early version is available at https://earlyversion.com/trakaido .
Širvintos is a small town in eastern Lithuania, serving as the administrative center of the Širvintos District Municipality within Vilnius County. It lies approximately 50 km northwest of Vilnius, the capital, and is part of the ethnographic region of Aukštaitija.
Huggingface had approximately one open-source model that supported Lithuanian TTS.
Faulkton SD is along US 212, west of Watertown.
the tool of the day is Replit.
The second "LLM coding app" tried was Windsurf.
This week's primary goal is to test some new LLM-powered coding tools. well, actually, maybe the primary goal is the code they are writing?
pembina, part 5: the human touch
there are a few issues with this project that the machine hasn't quite picked up on ...
pembina, part 4: casino madness
Nearby to the Osceola AMTRAK station, is the Lakeside Casino.
The machine works on a business plan:
After many, many rounds of telling it to "check its work" and asking if it was correct, the system came up with a rough service outline. It is still not great. But, it is good enough to present as a rough draft.
according to ChatGPT, there is a bus factory in Pembina, North Dakota.
lidgerwood, part 4: feeding the machine
Through sheer desperation, I have stumbled onto the << concatenate all 20 source files into a single file approach of preparing the key files in a Git repo for Gemini. Or ChatGPT.
lidgerwood, part 3: checksums and magic
The base magic is that, when a "checksum" is included, there is a link to the referenced content.
lidgerwood, part 2: account-a-rama
what does the << LLM-powered accounting system look like?
Lidgerwood is a small city located in Richland County, North Dakota, with a population of approximately 591 as of 2024 . Founded in 1886, it is part of the Wahpeton, ND–MN Micropolitan Statistical Area .
Last night, Claude wrote some code for the << qualification metrics. which might now be called exemplar tasks. The metric is "respond to one prompt". to some degree, the goal is to test "changes in context" as much as "changes in model"
A notable city in South Dakota associated with artisanal wheat farming is Newell. Located in the Belle Fourche River Valley of western South Dakota, Newell is home to Belle Valley Ancient Grains, an organic farm and flour mill specializing in ancient and heirloom wheat varieties such as einkorn,…
so far today: running the "proficiency" benchmarks against GPT-4-1 and Gemini-2.5-flash.
Edgeley, North Dakota, is a small rural town in LaMoure County, located in the southeastern part of the state. With a population hovering around 500 people, it's one of many prairie towns that exemplify the broader character of the upper Great Plains—quiet, sparsely populated, and closely tied to…
5/5
This system does demonstrate the flaws of some of the smaller models. Gemma3:4b, when I asked it to define << artillery , said that one definition was an alternative for << artilegia , a (non-existent) word for "fingers or toes".
the project has been at the << liminal point between "interesting" and "we already have dictionaries".
This seems to be "evolving" into a dictionary. Somewhat by accident; the machine wrote a command-line frontend for me (without my asking) that looks a lot like a dictionary.
Jamestown, North Dakota, is located along I-94 in the eastern half of the state.
Another round of "chainsaw coding" with Claude. the generators now use generators! Previously, Claude's approach was to just make one question without history. But we do want history. Use all the canned questions from text files (once), then generate files from local data (without repeating), then…
yesterday:
today: https://spaceship.computer/greenland/model_summary.html
for today:
yesterday:
the RSS feed has issues. It is doing a quick "remove the HTML" pass. What is needed, instead, is a separate "xml_generator.py" file.
The biggest change was allowing MLQ blocks to have color. You'll see what that looks like soon enough.
Tioga, North Dakota, is a small city in the northwest part of the state, located in Williams County. It has a population of roughly 1,200–1,500 people and is known primarily for its role in the Bakken oil boom. Tioga was established in the early 20th century as a railroad town but saw significant…
right now the plan looks like:
I'm not sure yet what evaluations I want to do for Claude 3.7 and/or ChatGPT 4.5.
we are even further north in North Dakota. for a short week.
With vacation starting tonight, we will keep << glendive going.
it has been a quiet week.
the room was toasty. toasty like bread.
the new "article" code is committed.
yesterday:
Glendive, Montana, is a small town in eastern Montana, near the North Dakota border. It is the county seat of Dawson County and has a population of around 5,000 people. The town sits along the Yellowstone River and is surrounded by badlands terrain, making it a scenic spot with a rugged, natural…
phone booth solution trip planning for Nebraska write emails (both actual emails, and posts here) laundry plan for next week
i have about 2 free hours before lunch to try more LLM features for Atacama.
the search for jobs is not yet bearing fruit.
the news is too filled with lies. i cannot repeat any of it.
Bozeman, Montana, is a vibrant city nestled in the Rocky Mountains, known for its stunning natural scenery, outdoor recreation, and strong connection to Montana State University. Surrounded by the Bridger, Gallatin, and Madison mountain ranges, it offers year-round activities like hiking, skiing,…
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.
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!
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.
I appear to be heading south from Alberta.
the new "channels" system is complete. the CSS is not; after wondering why several attempted fixes did nothing I found a syntax error in the CSS file. now they have all been applied and it looks bad the emphasis fix took 5 minutes
partial progress on most fronts.
yesterday was apart from the aforementioned "fix email server I broke last week" almost completely unproductive.
the two new channels were added. that took an entirety of two minutes
on the one hand, today was a largely unproductive day.
Red Deer is about halfway between Calgary and Edmonton.
at some point during the day, I decided that the "channel" feature was the most important. because nobody likes sorting through content on so many different topics
the socializing last night was good. but, the alcohol gets to me more at this age. when i woke up (not counting the 430AM wake-up) i was ready to stop drinking. again.
i barely got anything done today.
well, most of the print-view changes are done.
after some time arguing with the machine (and a tarot reading), I determined that a database migration was not a good use of time or effort. choosing between MySQL, Postgres, and Firebase was also not a good use of time or effort.
surely one of the USB drives around here has a Linux install drive on it?
"save message when the browser restarts" is not currently a feature.
the machine succeeded at none of the more-complicated tasks I had planned for yesterday afternoon.
approximately all of the tasks in 3/12 are done. at the end, I hit Claude's "please come back in a few hours" threshold, with a paid account.
well, actually, i can't do "one line per bugfix" here. there is too much interference.
There are 26 things on the Atacama to-do list I wrote today. That doesn't count the "multi-player features" that have been asked for.
Fort McKay is located about 500 miles north of Calgary.
an infuriating read for the morning: [[Reform of the date of Easter
Most of the Atacama things are done.
things to-do today, Atacama department:
the snow-clearing was easy. 3 inches is what the snowblower can easily handle.
the tasks for today are going well. the menorah is clean, the lamb is cooking, and 4 of the 6 Atacama tasks are done. the snow has almost stopped; I should be able to start shoveling very soon.
Medicine Hat, a vibrant city in southeast Alberta, Canada, blends natural beauty, cultural heritage, and modern convenience. Known as "The Gas City" for its rich natural gas reserves, the city enjoys over 330 days of sunshine annually, making it one of Canada's sunniest destinations. Nestled along…
the town of Earling, Iowa is located near Panama, Westphalia, and Defiance. i had never heard of any of those towns.