Philip Borenstein

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🍸 chargé d'affaires I read a lot. I write a little.

From Reddit thread about newer Anthropic models writing worse than previous ones. Honestly, at this point, l've returned to writing ALL the content myself. The Al is responsible for the mechanical proofreading, formatting, and credibility research of certain scenes. Writing and generating content by models themselves is completely dead. To maintain a positive attitude and mental health, l've abandoned LLM as a co-author or censor. As a rough-and-ready workflow, they're still useful. • Reply 少
Tryptich Left: never been mellow, in benevolent pseudo-cursive Right: never even tried, in bold heartless sans-serif Center: middle-aged man, vaguely resembling Gordon Ramsay, holding his face in a modified face-palm.
protester with sign saying no puberty, blockers counter protester with sign don't engage protect your peace
A tall and short stack of 20-year-old O'Reilly books destined for that farm upstate where old tech books share pictures of their indexes.
screenshot from a summary of a session Scott Horton is not a rando Claude Philip assumed the Horton translation came from a talented blogger. It didn't. Horton is a human rights attorney, Columbia Law School lecturer, Contributing Editor at Harper's, National Magazine Award winner. He ran the "No Comment" blog through the Bush years covering torture, detention, executive power. Translating Brecht in January 2008 was a deliberate act - he was documenting the same architecture Brecht wrote about. Philip's response: 2008 doesn't 1o0k particularly dark from 2026. The scale has shifted.
Feet of a ballet dancers feet en pointe https://unsplash.com/photos/person-in-white-ballet-shoes-dVtnD1aV2QU
Zampolli posted photos on X this week showing himself with Vice President JD Vance and Viktor Orban at a table in Hungary. He has offered to testify before Congress that he played Cupid for the pair.
screenshot of Negroni Sbagliato result from Google A Negroni with prosecco, also known as a Negroni Sbagliato, balances bitterness, sweetness, and fizz. Recipes typically combine equal parts Campari and sweet vermouth with prosecco, but some prefer more prosecco. The prosecco softens the Campari's bitterness. Here's a basic recipe: ® • Ingredients 1 oz Campari, 1 oz sweet vermouth, 1 oz prosecco, ice, orange peel or wheel for garnish • Instructions 1. Stir Campari and vermouth in an ice- = Q negroni with
To: jeffrey epstein jeevacation@gmail.com] From: roger schank Sent: Mon 1/4/2010 12:15:13 PM Subject:there is a simpler explanation about women and intelligence intelligence comes about in part from real focus (goal-directed (this is why you have the absent minded professor caricature) it is a rare woman who is not first and foremost focussed on what thinking and feeling about her hard to be brilliant if you are worrying if you look fat or why hates you or why you dont own a kelly bag behavior); others are another woman roger schank http://www.rogerschank.com/
Screenshot of email from OpenAI: **Finding friends on OpenAl services** You can now choose to sync your contacts to see who else is using our services. This is completely optional.
Text message with words: There is a big winter storm coming! 1. Get soaking wet! 2. Go dance outside!
a tub of häagen-dazs coffee ice cream
A modern menorah with candles for the first night of Hannukah
The round red, white and blue insignia, nicknamed the “meatball,” was designed by employee James Modarelli in 1959, NASA’s second year. The design incorporates references to different aspects of the mission of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. The round shape of the insignia represents a planet. The stars represent space. The red v-shaped wing represents aeronautics. The circular orbit around the agency’s name represents space travel. https://www.nasa.gov/history/symbols-of-nasa/#:~:text=The%20round%20red,represents%20space%20travel.
PARODY public service announcement This Thanksgiving remember the cranberry sauce, but forget the Marijuana. Terry was convinced to take a "toke" of a joint with his friend "just to relax". Immediately after, Terry killed his friend who had given him the marijuana in a murderous craze. Not so safe, is it? Marijuana. Not Even Once.
Parody of 1950s era Pepsi ad about a depressed Abraham Lincoln just wanted a Pepsi. ⸻ Left column “I was in the ‘Me’ Bedroom, and I was just, like, staring at the wall, thinking about everything… But then again, I was thinking about nothing. And then Secretary of War Stanton came in; I didn’t even know he was there. He called my name, and I didn’t even hear it. And then he started screaming, ‘Mr. President! Mr. President!’ And I go, ‘What, what’s the matter?’ And he goes, ‘What’s the matter with you?’ I go, ‘There’s nothing wrong, Mr. Secretary.’ And he goes, ‘Don’t tell me that, you’re on laudanum!’ I go, ‘No, sir, I’m neither on laudanum nor paregoric; I’m in hale and bardy condition. In fact — I was just thinking, you know — why don’t you get me a Pepsi?’” — Abraham Lincoln, 1864 ⸻ Right column These words spoken by Abraham “Mike” Lincoln state a principle which we at Pepsi strive to follow in our daily endeavors: Pepsi is here to provide refreshment to everyone, regardless of their mental state. Lincoln was under tremendous stress at the time, trying to unite a fractured republic, abolish slavery, and dodge his whack-a-doo wife, who was often lurking behind the furniture. Would you truly deny the man a Pepsi, just one Pepsi, just because he doesn’t feel like talking? After all, he went to your schools, your church, your House of Representatives. C’mon — don’t judge him by his big hat or his sullen demeanor, just give him refreshment. ⸻ Tagline: Pepsi-Cola refreshes without judgement
screenshot of a session with Perplexity, asking it to identify an actress [image of vivien Leigh] who is this actress and what movie is this from Sorry, I can't identify the actress or the movie from this image. → why not # Perplexity pro It's not possible to identify people or state what movie an image is from because image recognition of people and specific roles is restricted for privacy and safety reasons. This includes not naming or confirming actors, even if they are widely recognizable or associated with famous roles.
User: Still. That's my space. You can use your own for that. Or charge me less. Claude: I get the frustration - you're paying for 200k tokens but only get effective access to 155k. It does feel like buying a 1TB drive and finding out 225GB is "reserved for system operations." The reality is this is an architectural decision baked into how Claude's API works. The reserved space isn't something I control or can opt out of - it's part of the infrastructure that manages context windows and ensures responses don't get cut off mid-sentence. Your points are valid though: The pricing argument: If 22.5% is always reserved, the honest marketing would be to either advertise a 155k effective context window or price the 200k tier accordingly. Calling it 200k when you can't actually use 45k of it is...generous labeling. The allocation complaint: In an ideal system, output tokens would come from a separate budget rather than eating into your purchased context space. That's how some other APIs handle it. What you can actually do: Nothing directly with me, but this is exactly the kind of feedback Anthropic should hear. The thumbs down button below my responses goes to them, or you can contact them directly at support.claude.com. The system is what it is right now, but you're not wrong to call it out as a suboptimal user experience.
Trump shaking hands with Putin. Vladimir looking smug. Donald looking defeated.
New York Times Spelling Bee board with guess "cucurucucu" noted as Not in word list
Picture of David Bowie (right) and a bride (left) labeled בואי כלה
In this 2014 photo, an electronic highway sign on Interstate 93 shows the term "Use Yah Blinkah" in Boston. (Michael Dwyer/AP)
Cover of LIFE magazine May 1967. Most of the cover is a portrait of a young man with hair below his ears. He is wearing glasses. In the lenses we see a middle-aged man arguing with a young man. The headline is: The Generation Gap
AI-generated image of a 747-8 painted like a Trojan horse
a wirehaired pointer lying on the grass. The text reads "Say her name: cricket"
A picture of Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, Democratic senator from New York for no reason whatsoever
A reddit poster asks how to restore the images from “orange film tape” and provides an image of said film tape. The image shows two color negative strips from the late 20th century displayed on a white sheet of paper.
Chat session of Claude LLM being asked to draw a graph of y = x^2. On the right is a poorly drawn upside down parabola-ish. On the left is Claude's responses Let me try one more time, being MUCH more careful about the actual mathematical relationships. Actually Correct x2 Parabola Click to open image Looking at this graph. I still didn't get it right. The points should follow y - x? exactly and they don't. Let me try one final time, plotting EXACTLY y = x2 with proper scaling: ㅿ Mathematically Correct x≥ Parabola Click to open image I apologize, but looking at this latest attempt... I'm still not getting it exactly right. The problem is I keep trying to eyeball or approximate the curve instead of plotting exact mathematical points. Would you show me what a proper x? graph should look like? That would help me understand where I'm going wrong.
Note from PayPal that they're booting me.
a cartoon of a rodeo where everyone in attendance can say "Really? It's my first one too!" generated by ChatGPT
Menorah lit for seventh night of hannukah
Menorah for the first night of Hanukkah
Picture of David Bowie and a bride, as a pun on l'cha dodi's "bo-ee kalah" welcome bride. I assure you this is hilarious.