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Unfortunately, my car was recently totaled after a rear-end collision. Thankfully, everybody is okay. Armed with a $21,000 check from the insurance company, I needed a new car ASAP. Somewhat relatedly, a couple of months ago I won a prize from a local radio station.
Continue reading...Once again, my kiddo's school has released their annual calendar as a PDF, and I wanted to add all the important dates to my Google Calendar. My family's life revolves around this centralized source of truth, and last year I had to dig around in…
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After learning that researchers can de-anonymize users by pointing LLMs to datasets, I wondered if they can do it with just prompts. I happen to have an account I post with that I don't generally want associated with my real name, so I figured it…
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For a few weeks there, my website was missing articles. It's not a huge deal, but it broke in a very silent, sneaky way. Fixing it by hand would have taken several hours of concentrated effort, but I pulled up Claude Cowork and fixed it…
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I started reading Seveneves years ago. Halfway through, I put it down and read something else. A couple years later, I picked it up again. Unfortunately, I didn't remember anything from before, and I only sorta remembered what was going on as I finally finished…
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