{"id":2039,"date":"2023-09-03T20:49:14","date_gmt":"2023-09-04T01:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/?p=2039"},"modified":"2023-09-03T20:49:14","modified_gmt":"2023-09-04T01:49:14","slug":"weeknote-for-9-3-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/2023\/09\/03\/weeknote-for-9-3-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Weeknote for 9\/3\/2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Math<\/h2>\n<p>\ud83d\ude10<\/p>\n<p><strong>I tracked down my notes from earlier generations of this project.<\/strong> That&#8217;s about all I gave myself time to do. This week I\u2019ll make any flashcards I\u2019m missing from prealgebra.<\/p>\n<h2>AI<\/h2>\n<p>\ud83d\ude44<\/p>\n<p><strong>I spent too much of my week struggling with chatbots on my computer.<\/strong> At any given moment I was either failing to prompt my way past Llama 2 chat\u2019s confusions and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lesswrong.com\/posts\/rhdAAFLgLBHLtGcNT\/llama-we-doing-this-again\">false refusals<\/a> or failing to compile the necessary llama-cpp-python package to install an unrestricted version, among other models. Maybe it&#8217;s a sign I should wait until I&#8217;ve gotten somewhere on math!<\/p>\n<h2>Nature<\/h2>\n<p>\ud83d\ude0e<\/p>\n<p><strong>I took advantage of the cooler weather to explore more new parks.<\/strong> One of them was a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.monarchwatch.org\/waystations\/\">Monarch Waystation<\/a>, a field with plants monarchs need for food and breeding while they\u2019re migrating. 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That&#8217;s about all I gave myself time to do. This week I\u2019ll make any flashcards I\u2019m missing from prealgebra. AI \ud83d\ude44 I spent too much of my &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/2023\/09\/03\/weeknote-for-9-3-2023\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[168,99,195,167],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ai","category-math","category-nature","category-weeknotes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2039"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2041,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2039\/revisions\/2041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}