2023

links, etc Perennial rice: Plant once, harvest again and again : Short Wave : NPR this feels like a deeply underrated development. kind of like norman borlaug’s wheat.

links, etc Traffic Altercation - SNL - YouTube one of the best skits i’ve seen in ages. saving here for ref.

fedifetcher a link to this landed in my mastodon feed the other day and i spent a little bit of time installing it and tweaking for my setup. running as a container via cron it fits the bill beautifully for filling in the missing bits of replies that are associated with a post in your feed. FediFetcher for Mastodon - blog.thms.uk

links, etc Prompt Engineering | Lil’Log this is a great introduction into prompt engineering. there’s a lot to unpack here. candidly, i have been mostly skeptical of much of the recent announcements and activity associated with AI. not that it doesn’t work for the vast majority of language oriented use cases, but that the behaviors and the outputs would still require that we confirm the results and that we’ve unleashed infinite bullshit generators upon the world....