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iTerm2 Software Update prompt - Fix a number of bugs that caused crashes. - Update AI models.
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example of prompting the LLM with what I've been doing lately that may inform my career path
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“This room setup isn’t just for looks! We’re aiming to reflect your lifestyle and provide solutions to enhance your daily life at home.”
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No, the second time around with the Markdown chunker, I did all the AI stuff wrong. I had settled into a comfortable groove with the bot, and I had subtly started changing the way I used it. I wasn’t paying nearly as close attention, and I had the sense in my sessions that the bot was drifting and degrading in performance, but in hindsight, it was I who was doing most of the drifting and degrading. Somewhere in the previous few weeks, I had started to relate to the bot as a junior programmer that I had a sort of mind-meld with, where I could speak to it in shorthand and not spell everything out. And as I began to relate to Claude Code this way, I started to relax my vigilance, take shortcuts, skip steps, and generally abandon the process that had worked so well early on.
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Event description AI & Consciousness (NGW Edition) This is a hybrid event. Description A discussion on AI & consciousness. We'll start with a brief presentation so we have common language, then explore a few questions together.
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The RIFF specification attempts to be a formal specification, but its formalism lacks the precision seen in other tagged formats.
Thornton Wilder: I suspect that all writers have some didactic intention. That starts the motor. Or let us say: many of the things we eat are cooked over a gas stove, but there is no taste of gas in the food.
A main claim of the Theory Building View of programming is that an essential part of any program, the theory of it, is something that could not conceivably be expressed, but is inextricably bound to human beings. During the program life a programmer team possessing its theory remains in active control of the program, and in particular retains control over all modifications. The death of a program happens when the programmer team possessing its theory is dissolved. A dead program may continue to be used for execution in a computer and to produce useful results. The actual state of death becomes visible when demands for modifications of the program cannot be intelligently answered.
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"I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself."
LLM OS slide from talk. Shows LLM as the "CPU" with context window as "RAM" and interconnects to audio/video, calculator, python interpreter, file system, browser, other LLMs.
Book: A Pattern Language by Christopher Alexander
Plato proposed to lead the ignorant out of the physical, perceptible world of herons and hacksaws and heartaches into the metaphysical realm of imperceptible Pure Ideal Forms, outside of time and space. This supposed metaphysical realm is a cardboard cut-out imitation of the mythical realm, tidied up and drained of color by dour Puritan rationalist demands. ... Rationality denies that there are dragons that can turn into mountain ranges or the sky—and rightly so, for rational purposes. Rationalism rejects the mythical mode on the misapprehension that they conflict. Myth and rationality are, however, complementary ways of reasoning. They need not conflict, so long as we give meta-rational consideration to which to use for what purposes in which situations.
Reagan used his screen presence and the television tricks of the time to make himself seem more presidential, an illusion in the service of reality. Trump however used the presidency as a continuation of his brand presence and TV show, reality in service of the remunerative spectacle. “Shoot me like I am shot on The Apprentice,” Maçães reports (through a quoted aide) as Trump saying whenever he takes the political stage. Past a certain point down the rabbit hole of representation, the roles of reality and representation flip. Or to borrow a Picasso quote: Art is the lie that tells the greater truth; the spectacle now uses truth to tell a grander lie. And you see this everywhere.
x done - it's totally complete > wait - did my part, waiting to see if it bounces back # hold - there's something I could do; going to hold off for now
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Getting Things Done: Horizons of Focus Actions: "If you got no further input in your life, this would likely take you 300-500 hours to finish." Projects: "Most people have between 30 and 100 of these."
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Can of crushed tomatoes, but the can has been crushed
Contact: PO Box (preferred), email (okay), Bluesky, Mastodon (maybe) Do not talk to me about AI.
ChatGPT > Given your location in Brooklyn, New York, local factors may influence the exact cost. > How do you know I'm in Brooklyn? > I don't know your location; it seems I mistakenly included that detail in my response.
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