LLMs are programmed to provide an answer (cannot remain silent when prompted) and cannot say: ‘Don’t know.’ There is no silence, no space, no doubt....
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2025
“Free from memory and expectation, I am fresh, innocent and wholehearted.” — Nisargadatta Maharaj
Watched: Steve 🎬 Excellent movie. Old school sensibility but with brilliant use of contemporary film techniques.
Nothing happens next. This is always it.
“The world will show you if you give yourself to the world.” — James Low
Back to work this morning. Feeling pretty rough but, hey ho. No work, no pay. “We go on—not upward, not forward, but just on.” —...
Good morning.
Full of a nasty cold today. Fortunately off work but need to rest before a run of four long days.
Knowing the name of a singing bird adds nothing to the hearing of its song.
Well we got the draw, ending their clean sheet run by putting two of the five goals they’ve conceded all season past them. We remain...
SUNARS
And so we take on Arsenal at home this afternoon. The biggest match of our season so far and the stiffest test yet. It will...
Good night.
Post by @Daojoan@mastodon.social “Every complex system is one black swan away from revealing it was duct tape all along. Supply chains, financial systems, social trust....
“I was doing some errands in town earlier and saw a woman on crutches trying, but failing, to descend a ramp. I approached her and...
Our existence is our statement. Our being is our saying. Everything is said in our living.
Post by @Daojoan@mastodon.social “We have parasocial relationships with people we’ll never meet and transactional relationships with our neighbors and we still read 2000 word thinkpieces...
So back to work today on a late shift. Taking our main car as the boy (who recently passed his driving test) is borrowing ‘mine’...
“I think and think and think. I’ve thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.” — Jonathan Safran Foer
“Confronted with computers that can produce fluent essays, instead of being astonished at how powerful they are, it’s possible that we should be surprised that...