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I continued taking memory palace photos, choosing number names, and exploring resources for creating more mnemonic tools.<\/strong> I picked up a pair of symbolism dictionaries by Steven Olderr to help me think about visualizing abstract concepts. For ideas on number symbolism and archetypal characters, I picked up a Humble Bundle<\/a> with books on tarot, numerology, and astrology. And for ideas on assigning stories to everyday objects, I listened to The Rural Setting Thesaurus<\/em> from the terrific Writers Helping Writers series, though I\u2019ll need to study it to really glean what I\u2019m looking for.<\/p>\n \ud83d\ude0e<\/p>\n A project at work gave me the opportunity to dip my toe into several AI technologies I’ve been curious about.<\/strong> I looked into the tool chain frameworks LangChain and Llama Index, the ReAct framework for autonomous agents, retrieval augmented generation (RAG) to let the language model query a document library, and multimodal models to include computer vision in my queries. I concluded that these techniques weren\u2019t a good fit for the project, but exploring them gave me back the feeling I was performing informational alchemy using these models.<\/p>\n \ud83d\ude0e<\/p>\n Saturday I spent the afternoon making a custom Google map of all my walking spots, plus a few I still need to visit.<\/strong> I ended up with about 50 pins. I used the hiking icon to show which places I\u2019ve already walked and the icon color to represent the surface type so I can pick a less muddy trail after it’s rained. The map is way better for picking a nearby spot than the spreadsheet I was going to make.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Learning \ud83d\ude0e I continued taking memory palace photos, choosing number names, and exploring resources for creating more mnemonic tools. I picked up a pair of symbolism dictionaries by Steven Olderr to help me think about visualizing abstract concepts. For ideas … Continue reading AI<\/h2>\n
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