Damian’s notes

After elaborately setting up my development environment so I can run the server in the debugger I go to place a breakpoint on the implementation of the non-working service and discover the method consists of nothing but a TODO comment.

jq is a command-line tool for extracting information from (streams of) JSON objects using a pretty simple filter syntax. Useful tidying up the output of messy APIs or extracting info from them in scripts.

So far as we can tell the new version of GPT was taught to write ‘literary’ English through adversarial training with other LLMs. The result is bizarrely plausible looking gnomic utterances which on closer examination are just gibberish—but which are convincingly impressive to other LLMs.

Renderings by David Romero of one of Frank Lloyd Wright’s unbuilt buildings, the Call Building (1912).

This abacus has an electronic calculator built in to it for some reason.

Micro.blog, a micro-blogging site with lots of interop with other platforms now has free hosting for teachers and nurses. If you know a teacher or nurse who might enjoy Micro.blog, let them know!

#IndieWeb #Micro.blog

Here is a fun, short video of people from around the world beings asked for the most popular tongue-twister in their country.

Here’s a neat idea (for people using Unix-like systems): add the venerable Fortune program to your login, bit replace its database of epigrams with reminders to yourself of useful command-line tools you have installed.

AI is not going to save media companies, and forcing journalists to use AI is not a business model. Editorial from 404 Media arguing that journalism not written by humans is not worth the e it is printed on.