Angie Wang’s sketch in the New Yorker, “Is My Toddler a Stochastic Parrot?”, is a lovely meditation on language, AI, and life:
The world is racing to develop ever more sophisticated large language models while a small language model unfurls itself in my home.
Seriously, just find a large screen and read it. It’s such a delight.
Currently reading: The Fifth Season by (ISBN 9780316229302)
1. San Diego can have little a fall, as a treat.
2. They took an hour from us but at least I can still enjoy this.
★★★☆☆Live Wire by
The plot was kind of average and the reveal at the end seemed far-fetched, but overall an enjoyable read. I picked this one up from a neighborhood Little Free Library because I had read one of Coben’s other books and enjoyed it. I didn’t realize it was part of a series, but it worked alright as a standalone read.
Finished reading: Live Wire by (ISBN 9780525952060)
Joe brought CSS Battle to my attention today. I enjoy CSS but most of my daily work with it is routine stuff like forms, nothing too fancy or creative. I decided to try it out and in true indieweb fashion, I wanted to post the results on my site.
The 2023-11-14 Daily Target seemed like a good chance to brush up on CSS Grid. I got my solution down to 342 characters when minified. I must say it hurt a little to remove the quotation marks on HTML attributes. :]
It looks like the daily target switches over at midnight UTC, so I was too late to submit this today. Still a fun exercise and looking forward to more.