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I Sobbed Tears of Joy, Which Hasn't Happened in a Long Time

Penn, in his 4th year of the 5-year arch program at Arkansas, attended this earlier this summer, and described it as life-changing....

Copy of an Email from Mike Riddell, 2003

What I do know something about is constant suffering which you are forced to live with...

Helping Define This Thing We Feel Lacking in LLM Responses

Your value lies in your ability to leverage those work primitives, [the things that AI can produce], in ways that reflect your taste, in ways that reflect your expertise.

A Scene from the Bike Racing Post-apocalypse

Milo raced in the state championship road race in 2023 and last year, both times at Fort Cavazos and run by the same organizers...

New Short Fiction Section

I added a section to /writing: Short Fiction on the Blog. These are all the posts tagged #fiction, and some of my favorite posts here...

Why Are We Seeing Different Findings About AI?

Well, we haven't gotten specific enough about our questions, or we're using the wrong language or format for how we ask about it.

Intraducing Mastrodon

On May 25th I used Claude Code for the first time. I’ve used GitHub Copilot for some time, but I’d never used a “coding agent” with any success...

My Eyes

A long meander about a normal if premature eye surgery

I've Got a Fever, and the Only Prescription Is More Archiving

This was more than just a scholarly tendency to hoard footnotes or to lovingly alphabetise newspaper clippings. Derrida’s mal d’archive was more deeply affecting than that.

Weekly Roundup

In which I just [mostly] just compile things I posted about elsewhere…...

She Don't Mind the Late Night Radio

One of the most delightful things I've found on the internet recently

AI Chatbots and the Humans Who Love Them

As a “oh, it is already happening” follow up to the philosophical section of my Overview of the GenAI Landscape post, where I quote Todd McGowan and Ryan Engley...

I Guess You Are Afraid of What Everyone Is Made of

Hey, what are you looking at? Who the hell do you think I am?

Overview of the GenAI Landscape

Word salad on a few weeks' worth of thinking about this stuff from a few different perspectives

Computing Machinery and Intelligence

Future of Coding 76 – Computing Machinery and Intelligence by Alan Turing...