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A little while ago I was wondering just how many words I’ve written on my blog. I was inspired by Wouter over at Brain Baking . Now, I use a static site generator for my blog, the upshot of which is that the whole thing is just a big folder full of files. So counting up all the words is really easy with a simple shell command: wc --total=only -w content/blog/*/*.md 55198 That’s 55,198 total words as of the time of this writing. Well that’s neat. With a little bit of awk you can get the average…

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I don’t really want to make another post about LLMs. I would love for blogging about LLMs to become as gauche as blogging about blogging. But this is the idea I have right now. I don’t want to talk to chatbots. There is one simple reason: I am not chatty. I am not talkative. I find it difficult to think of things to say. It takes me quite a bit of time and effort to think of things to say. It’s hard! And so, if I am going to spend all that time and effort, I want to spend it on actual people. I…

I love to go for long walks . That is my first choice for getting places. I love being able to walk places. It is a privilege. It is a privilege to have a body that can do it without pain. It is a privilege to have places close enough to walk to. It is a privilege to have a climate and landscape amenable to it. None of these are guarantees. Sometimes they are short walks. There is a bakery a few blocks from where I live. Every now and then, when I have a bit of time in the morning, I indulge in…

First up is a pair: Nostalgic for past futures by Tracy Durnell and Nostalgia Always Includes a Temporal Context by Brain Baking. Both posts, as the titles suggest, are about nostalgia. In It’s Pie day for me JTR shares a picture of some delicious looking pizza. I’m a very big fan of pizza. Two more from Tracy Durnell: Bookshelves as mental constructs with some philosophizing on bookshelves. And a recipe for Chickpeas and pasta with rosemary oil —sounds yummy! Aaron Hertzmann wrote an essay…

I have noticed an interesting phenomenon with LLMs. There is something I have never quite understood. From what I have gathered from people talking about LLMs in comments, and blog posts, and chat rooms, and Youtube videos, etc. One of the most common uses for them is looking up information. And I don’t get it. I do try to avoid using LLMs where I can, but this particular case is not aversion or resistance for me. It is categorization. I simply that I don’t associate them with finding…