Category: daily drivel
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a couple of farts
While cleaning up a mess in the basement recently, I found a box of photos I had lost track of for quite a while. I was even a little afraid the photos may have been accidentally tosses with the trash a while back, but no! They were not! And I am so happy about that.… Read.
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pick your nose
When I lost my key ring while I was out hiking on Tuesday, unlocking my bicycle from the sign post was not the only problem I had to figure out how to fix. One of the other keys on that key ring was a key that would open the lock that prevented any random person… Read.
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wildflowers on parade
A few wildflowers I saw while hiking through the UW-Madison Arboretum: Read.
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fallen
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dumb and dumber
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Chatbots / AI / LLM
“Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all. “When a chatbot gets something wrong,… Read.
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Vicious Head Cold from Planet Death
I am just getting over a vicious head cold that came all the way from Planet Death to murder me, but I fought it off with over-the-counter pain killers and my one superpower, naps. I’m pretty sure I caught it from somebody on the ferry coming back from Isle Royale. It’s a three and a… Read.
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morning walk 4-26-2025
It was a good day for a morning walk through the UW-Madison arboretum. It started out cold, with temps in the forties, but a clear, sunny sky quickly warmed everything and by the time I left, about two hours after I arrived, temps were in the fifties. Very pleasant weather for a long, slow stroll… Read.
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first thing
First thing I had to do this morning, after getting out of bed and getting dressed, was hop in the car and drive to the office building where I work. Nothing unusual about that, ordinarily, except that I was scheduled to work from home this Friday. So why was I driving to work? Because my… Read.
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red to green
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