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Category: TD/GDMBR 2024
Generative AI as a metaphor for consciousness
Tl;dr: What if we think of GenAI as an immature black box consciousness? Generative AI goes by lots of names these days: ChatGPT, LLM, AI, Chatbot. I’ll be using GenAI from here on out. The field overall contains a lot of interesting and distinct things (Machine Learning, advanced statistics, large and small language models). What’s…
Mountain Turtle is my spirit animal
Tl;Dr: Kent Peterson is one of my bicycle heros, maybe the primary hero Sometime back in 2010 or so I first heard about the Tour Divide. It wasn’t long after that I learned about a rider from Seattle: Kent Peterson. Kent not only rode the Tour Divide, he did it twice – once on a…
Why do actors get involved in politics?
Tl;Dr: Actors get sucked into leadership vaccumes I’m sure there’s a longer, better thought out explanation for this, but why in the world do we end up paying attention to actors in times of political crisis? For example, Jane Fonda posted on Instagram earlier this week ‘Wake up folks and ride up…‘. Don’t get me…
Random musical thought
Maybe a big part of music is making you feel as if you know what’s coming (predictable rhythm), while also engaging novelty.
Feeling resigned
Tl;Dr: Feels like (our political situation) can’t be helped, maybe it’s time to just lay back and take it I’ve been making the analogy that Trump is like a heart attack – urgent action (like CPR) is needed to help the patient survive the event. Looking at what our urgent action has accomplished so far,…
Focus, people
Tl;Dr: Please pick the most urgent & important political issues and focus on those, let the rest go til later. Today I saw a post by somebody wondering what had happened to the Ban on TickTock. Not to put too fine a point it: who fucking cares? Remember Gish Gallop? It’s a rhetorical tactic to…
Protesting disappointment
Tl;Dr: the resistance seems disorganized. Update: here’s a good list, nation wide I am pretty sure there were some protests today, but I really struggled to find one. I looked in the normal places, but they seem to be in pretty bad disarray. TroubleMakers doesn’t have a call to action or calendar on their front…
Big old Bag of Bay
Tl;Dr: Found free bay leaves on our walk, here’s how to preserve them There is nothing that smells so much like Spring as fresh Bay leaves. We found a huge pile of free bay Laurel branches on our walk last night and carried a few home. Having fresh Bay is nice, but how do you…
Health Benefits of Raw Garlic
Tl;Dr: Raw garlic is good for you, here’s some Science to back that up. Garlic is good for you. Eating it raw, shortly after smashing it (or cutting) appears to be best. An active agent in Garlic starts transforming almost immediately after you cut it. Adding vinegar (lowering pH) preserves the active agent. More later,…
Running a (dropship) store
Tl;Dr: A simple store is easy and cheap, making it real costs at least lots of time I setup a quick Printify Dropship shop called 3rdtime.printify.me to sell Impeachment related shirts to help spread the word, and to maybe benefit one of my Kids a little bit financially. The idea was: use our current situation…