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  • Jul 27
    Bookmark Em dashes are fucking amazing

    Bookmarked: Em dashes are fucking amazing Working with AI helped me actually learn punctuation because clarity makes better prompts. Reading em-dashes in text helped me understand em-dashes. Now I use …

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  • Jul 26
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    In the age of AI, evolutionary theory will become a critical cultural and business theory. This is because evolution is concerned with observed life. Life is essentially information that folds upon itself and stories play out on that manifold. AI makes it important not so much to be first in culture or technology, but …

  • Jul 26
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    Contraptions Book Club # August book is Darwin’s Dangerous Idea — Evolution, and the Meanings of Life by Daniel C. Dennett Starting the August book, past 2 months have been software development and my non-fiction reading cratered. At least I read Ortega before the encyclopedia so I can count that as the July reading. …

  • Jul 26
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    Had Chitale pedas after what feels like years. Is there a more perfect Indian sweet? I say not.

  • Jul 26
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    It is a strange happiness to really grasp the differences between the words prediction and anticipation. That there is a difference at all. When I sought to understand the difference I anticipated this joy but could not predict it. Prediction assumes that everything knowable is known and failure is a matter of chance …