Category: two cents
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I like Grok
I have been exploring the utility of large language models (LLMs) for some time now. I generally prefer them to simple search engine queries. I can put a question with a large number of keywords in it, and the AI will assess which ones are most relevant and which combinations come closest to answering my…
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Learning by Repetition
It is well established that the human mind learns best the ideas that are repeated to it. This is compounded when those ideas are repeated by the person whose mind is in question. Steven Covey taught that one of the best ways to learn something is to teach it. We go over the information coming…
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Leave the Fat in the Fish
One of the biggest selling points of fish is the fat. If you process it out then the fish isn’t as healthy. Today I was grocery shopping and looked at the fat content of imitation crab. The answer that came back was zero. That’s definitely not what I want. So I put Omega 3 into…
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Land of the Lost
I just finished the first season of Land of the Lost. In the final episode “Circle” the Marshalls make it home. I had no clear memory that they had escaped the Land of the Lost, and that’s probably because there were two more seasons which just ignored the true ending. That’s good business considering the…
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The Illusion of Individuality
Individuals have very little actual control over their environment. For instance we are getting a new air conditioner to go in our central service. I could not make and install an air conditioner myself. A lot of someone elses built it, several someone elses will install it, and someone other than that is paying for…
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Infinity to Eternity
When you first learned about infinity you probably started with the idea that natural numbers are infinite and that given an eternity one could count forever. But that opens a whole bucket of philosophical slop. Most people I know believe that the universe had a beginning and that absolutely nothing existed in the eternal past.…
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They Watch Everyone
I’ve been thinking about the intersection between the US surveillance state and local surveillance. It is easy to ask questions about how much someone local is able get away with on probation. It’s harder and much more deeply personal to ask how much surveillance we will permit. When a person skirts the law and we…
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Work is Good
Work is good. Getting paid to work is even better. Being able to pay other people to work is even better than that. It’s not much of a philosophy, but Fuck Off, I do what I want. Stay Awesome, Stay Weird, or Stay Away!
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Wrong 2
I got accused of black and white thinking today for saying some things are objectively wrong. Rape is wrong no matter how many people are doing it and how a society justifies it. Slavery is objectively wrong. While 99.99% of human history is full of slaves and it has been justified by most until very…
Latter Day Sinner 