goer.org

A year or two back, I started noodling on a homegrown personal wiki. It’s ugly and missing a lot of features, but at this point I actually do have some documents in it that I kinda sorta care about. This December I had some time on my hands, so six days...

Having hit a new milestone birthday, I’ve been reflecting on the previous decades, and asking, “After all this time, have I really learned anything?”
I think I have, and that thing is: the truth is underrated.
My scattered thoughts follow.

I’ve had some really nice successes using GPT-4 for coding, both in generating boilerplate code, and summarizing and explaining existing documentation. A few days ago, I decided to push things a little further, and see what kind of “understanding” stock...

This is the story as we have always told it, for over two thousand years. Not a word has been changed.
There once was a village that decided to task a young boy with guarding his village’s sheep. It was a crushingly boring task. The sheep essentially minded themselves, and as the day wore on, the child became desperate for attention....