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I have never been a fast runner. I starting running seriously in high school after joining the cross country team. Cross country races are 5 kilometer races held on courses that, well, cross some country (or in very small countries, all the way across). I loved the training and the racing, but was never good…
Today I noticed that Gmail will help with composing an email, or edit/rewrite an email after it is written. I tried the rewrite feature and it wasn’t terrible. The AI preferred “reach out” to my preference of “contact” (e.g., I’m contacting you regarding…) in typical business correspondence. It also added some enthusiasm that I didn’t…
I have never been a long-term life planner, especially in my professional life. In college I studied topics that interested me; mindful of post-schooling employment but not overly focused on getting a job after college. My first adventures in graduate school were to study mathematics because I liked the subject. My second round of graduate…
I like this one.
This video explains one aspect of AI (generative AI mostly) that keeps me from worrying too much that the “robots will take our jobs”. The contrast the Dickerson draws is between knowing and understanding: AI will never understand anything. In statistics, an AI tool could someday perform a thorough data analysis. Maybe even perform it…
I really liked this one.
The #7syllablesentence writing prompt is just like it sounds. Write a seven syllable sentence using the prompt (or based on the prompt). I liked this one, but others did not.
I’m not sure if this AI trend will last or not, but vibe coding is coding (writing a computer program) by simply prompting a large language model (an LLM, e.g., ChatGPT) to write the code. Software developers are concerned that LLMs are coming for their jobs, and vibe coding is understandably a serious concern if…