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I brushed up on my techniques for efficient programming.<\/strong> It was crunch time at work again, another chance to ponder the age-old question, how do you manage risk under uncertainty? Namely, how do you manage the risk of blowing the deadline while making a digital mess under the uncertainty of how long it’ll take to solve the chain of problems you\u2019ll progressively uncover? I settled on taking the most direct route I could easily think of and then consulting with my boss as soon as I hit a major snag. That worked out pretty well.<\/p>\n \ud83d\ude03<\/p>\n The chatbots both inspired and humbled me with their fictional weeknotes.<\/strong> On a whim during a walk I asked a few LLMs for a blog post each to see what ideas I could pick up on format and content. I was not prepared for their charm. Enjoy these entries from ChatGPT<\/a>, Claude<\/a>, Gemini<\/a>, and OLMo<\/a>. Maybe once I have my blogging schedule under control, I can put more effort into style.<\/p>\n \ud83d\ude0e<\/p>\n I warmed up to poetry with Norton\u2019s expansive anthology World Poetry<\/em>.<\/strong> Inspired by the childhood reading habits of Katharine S. White, I picked up this anthology I\u2019d bought over Christmas. (I\u2019d started listening to White\u2019s biography the week before, The World She Edited<\/em> by Amy Reading. The ECPA conference had inspired picking up that one.) To make my way through the poetry I followed the pattern of my Bible reading plan and divided the book into seven sections, and each day I read about five pages of that day\u2019s section. I’ve never been a big fan of poetry, but I found myself looking forward to the readings. A lot of it was just readable enough that making sense of the language was a fun puzzle, and the readings had an interesting variety of styles and subjects and moods.<\/p>\n \ud83e\uddd0<\/p>\n Memento<\/em> showcased a clever technique for representing short term memory loss.<\/strong> Inspired by looking into Saporta\u2019s Composition No. 1<\/em>, I decided to watch this nonlinear movie that, like most things, had been on my list for decades. It struck a nice balance between experiment and understandability, and it left enough mystery that fans are still discussing it.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Productivity \ud83d\ude2c I brushed up on my techniques for efficient programming. It was crunch time at work again, another chance to ponder the age-old question, how do you manage risk under uncertainty? Namely, how do you manage the risk of … Continue reading AI<\/h2>\n
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