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Setting aside the tech, which looks like an asynchronous await across a network, the interesting question is why Mistral would patent this in the US. Simple, because the patent is …

I agree. Camus' work was a larger project. One he sadly never finished. His works (essays, short stories, plays, etc.) build on one another, gradually unfolding an argument: first …

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> Notice that Camus doesn't say HOW to imagine Sisyphus happy. How do you? The gods controlled the ascent, but they forgot to regulate the walk back down. In those brief, unburdene…

Okay, here's who popped into my head right away: Rod Serling. I know, most people meet Homer on the page and think of him as a poet. But for the people who first heard him, he was …

I understand what you are saying, but inside the repo, I'm making it explicit. I'm not trying to hide the problem, just offering a solution that people may find useful, or curiousl…

Here is a sample I am using for testing on a personal project (I'm also working on using SpeechActs to do prompting, so yes, the repo is all AI-generated). https://f.mek.cc/gombasi…

> The way the LLMs write (Claude perhaps?) With short phrases separated by colons, commas, or full stops, is so poor and frustrating. This is exactly why I keep a WRITING.md file a…

I don't know about that but thanks. I tend to think of myself as a baseball enthusiast with a philosophy problem.

And encoding context, governance, and intent. I hate guessing that but too often I must.

I've spent a surprising amount of time reading philosophy of language, and it's probably done more for my AI prompting than most of the "prompt engineering" articles I've read. Spe…

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Wow, I'd completely forgotten Peterson's book existed. Thanks for the link. My long-running quarrel with WordPerfect was always the keybindings. I can still tear through WordStar, …

Yes, and most of them were lawyers or worked for law firms.

I still like to start the first draft of anything substantial by moving to a single screen, opening FreeDOS, maximizing the window, and typing in Wordstar as if it were 1987. Hell,…

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Sorry I didn't reply sooner. I let Nick and the team know (Nick has dubbed me the Official Historian for PL), and they certainly are impressed. This is some really great stuff.

My local library doesn't have a sewing machine, but it does lend out projectors, game consoles, a telescope, musical instruments, and bicycles. You can even check out a banjo, whic…

This is really, really awesome. I'm going to let the folks at Pitcher List know about it!

Whenever I read something about Bill Watterson, I end up thinking about how, during the '80s and early '90s, Watterson, Tom Batiuk, and Harvey Pekar were all producing some of thei…

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When this first happened, I wondered, since we had trained these models on decades of forums, issue trackers, and people treating closed pull requests as human rights violations. O…

I'm too much of a baseball fan, I see this as Whitey Herzog and think two things: a) He passed away in 2024, and b) Why would he talk to Paul Cronin? Then, I think it would have be…

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