The word “hydrogen” is Greek for water-former. Hydro-gen. Never once have I noticed the obvious etymology.

Now I wonder how many other obvious things I am missing. Many rabbit holes to explore. (But then, my name is Warren. What do you expect?)

Weird GPT-4 behavior for the specific string “ davidjl” (twitter.com)

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Sky people, I need your help.
We’re headed out on a road trip early tomorrow. Need Disney-ish rocket theme to play as we leave. Suggestions?

May not be efficient, but it is cozy.

“Cargo Cult AI” by Edlyn V. Levine is a good review of the current strengths and weaknesses. I don’t agree that AGI must be possible. But this is a good place to get up to speed. https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?ref=rss&id=3595860

Working in Lilac country for two weeks. How I’ve missed the smell of childhood, the perfect little flowers.

So… web development, relearning splines, editing the intro essay, thinking through the “History of Science” as myth to illustrate the next essay, writing the next, next project in Haskell. I think I’m having fun. Hard to tell.

Need to reopen Spline for the graphics. Not looking forward to that, but the Practice Rationality logo image just won’t let go of my imagination.

It has been so long since I coded for the web, I’m hand coding my exploratory site when I have a minute. WarrenYoder.net Minimum viable so far.