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Yesterday it was in the mid 60s, now it’s snowing
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Why isn’t there a “natural” programming language? Is that what this exercise is AI is all about?
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The Purrfect Crime
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Social media and the reliance on truth
I was thinking about how the model for social media requires faith that the users are telling the truth. If the source of revenue for social media is the data that users provide about themselves, then you are relying on your users to be telling the truth about themselves. This
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Excitement yesterday when I discovered Spotlight works on Violet. That will be a game changer. I like the invocation of the control panel, but it’s a little fiddly to get to the apps, and using the Digital Crown feels like cheating somehow. Being able to just type to an
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I’ve started moving again, and it feels really good. I feel like I’ve been ready to move for a while, but wasn’t sure where to go. What to do. What did she mean when she said go do something constructive? Even when I asked her, the answer
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Trying to get the MacBook to give the Vision the keyboard took some finagling but I figured it out. The trick is similar to using the keyboard with the iPad, you have to pointer onto it first, select it and then the keyboard will start working.
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The Rationality of Imposter’s Syndrome
So, will I ever be free of imposter syndrome? No, I sincerely doubt it. Even if I were to feel the mad desire to get an official diagnosis and could overlook my distrust of doctors and the systematic faults with it. Even if I could crush all my niggling fears
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FARK.com: (8147761) A pig like that, you don’t eat all at once
A travelling[sic] salesman drove past a farm one day and noticed a pig with one wooden leg. He didn’t think much of it until a week later, driving by the same farm, the pig had two wooden legs. The third week, the pig had three wooden legs, and
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I reached over for my faux beer and accidentally poked the close button for Scrivener, gotta be more careful about where I put the windows
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A Fascinating World
(Meanwhile, Wikipedia relates that when Adam and Eve were exiled from the Garden, the stone came burning out of the sky to show them where to build the first temple. This is a beautiful story and also very useful for my general argument, so I wish it were genuine, but
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Historia Augusta
The most influential source for Avitus is the Historia Augusta, a very comprehensive collection of imperial biographies written by six different authors around the year 300. The Historia Augusta is a very interesting book. Unlike most Roman histories, it’s dense with primary sources: extracts from letters, speeches, pronouncements. It’