Windmills Become Giants
A quick exploration. Anna Summarize, very briefly, Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. ChatGPT-4: Don Quixote is a novel about a delusional Spanish nobleman who, inspired by chivalric romances, becomes a knight-errant to pursue adventures and right wrongs, accompanied by his loyal and pragmatic squire, Sancho Panza. Then, for some reason, inspired. I thought…
Amidst the Thorns, a Rose
An exploration ChatGPT-4. Originally I started searching for how to find poems in the public domain and ended up looking at Grimms’ Fairy Tales by Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm. You might recognize the below story, named Briar Rose in the collection. Seen in modern story telling as Sleeping Beauty. Anna: Summarize this story, then…
Thinking about Thoreau
And talking with ChatGPT-4. I was looking through old quotes and collections and came across a connection maybe, that I left for myself. Sisyphus and something, I thought I read, that Henry David Thoreau wrote about throwing stones over a wall and most men being offended if they were offered employment throwing stones over a…
Life’s Intricate, Ever-Changing Tapestry
An exploration, through poetry and ChatGPT-4. Another poem by Caitlin Van Horn, is shared below. Another one I had stashed away (much like in this post) because I thought it might be lost to the abyss before I wanted to let it go. This one dated July 23rd, no year. Love by Another Name You…
The Ebbs and Flows of Perception’s Vessel
A poem by Caitlin Van Horn, is shared below. I had saved this poem, with the date June 24th (no year) in my personal notes on Google Drive many moons ago. I copied it directly from her old website. I had this feeling at the time, that it wouldn’t exist on the internet forever for…
Why all the posts?
I guess I’m just excited to be exploring old ideas with new tools. ChatGPT has really given me a lot of inspiration for introspection. Likely more to come. But that’s why. In case anyone wondered. Just poking at things that interest me. 🙂
Lamenta Scriptum
I posted a slideshow of some of my art, a flash talk I never did for work. In that flash talk, I had a slide for this project. A group art installation that Liz Szabo, Lisa Cross, LuDel Walter, and I collaborated on, sponsored by Dale Mueller Smith. And for some time, I think I’ve…
Panning Wisdom’s Gold
Earlier today, Chett and I were working on sorting out the old food from Grocery Outlet for the animals. I made some comment, that of course I can’t remember now, and laughed about how funny I am. And Chett said, “Yeah, funny like a flat tire on the way to the hospital.” Now that was…
Nevermind, Redefined.
I’ve finally given into watching season two of True Detective. I loved season one and vaguely heard that season two wasn’t as good. So I went in with low expectations, and I’ve been marginally enjoying it as a background story to other activities (like writing here – it’s on now, another screen, episode 6). I…
Why is fire?
This question came from a three year old, many years ago, when Charles and I used to blacksmith at Hillside Gardens. Well… he used to blacksmith and I was a shitty apprentice. Yes, we cursed, we also drank while we worked. We were blacksmiths. This kiddo had been coming to these outdoor concerts, gardens, and…
And that has made all the difference.
Early this morning I asked ChatGPT-4 to: Rewrite and retitle Robert Frost’s The Road Not Taken, forging a new path a new road that didn’t exist, in the poem, keeping the same style and feeling as the original. Here was the creation:
Quote: Leaving Behind; Explored with ChatGPT-3.5
“You get a strange feeling when you’re about to leave a place, I told him, like you’ll not only miss the people you love but you’ll miss the person you are now at this time and this place, because you’ll never be this way ever again.” Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in…
Discovering a New Species of Unicorn
I’ve been running experiments and tests with new AI language models as they come out. Starting with work excitement and ideas to improve how fast I can work and how much is possible to get done in a day, I’ve grown excited for my own reasons. A friend of mine, Dean, said maybe it’s because…
Copilot Like Program for Genetic Engineering
Recently I started a conversation with a few friends and coworkers about the idea of a Copilot like program for genetic engineering. Hoping that someone would have some ideas or theories that might test my understanding of what AI tech can do currently and what it might do in the future. GitHub’s Copilot uses the…
Do Bees Take Breaks?
Do bees take breaks? Or are they just constantly working? Is flying back to the hive like a break or a walk after work? Is that when they think about other things? What do bees think about? Maybe these are silly questions, but what’s wrong with that! Why does it seem like kids are the…
Education and Learning Systems
I’ve been thinking a lot about education, from how we teach our youth to how we teach ourselves. My favorite way to learn is by doing. By getting my hands dirty, performing experiments, testing to see what happens, and making note (maybe only mentally) of what I learn, I seem to both retain better, and…
Bring Back the Pure Patron
Lets forget about crowd sourcing, twitch streaming, and things like Patreon for a time. How did the idea of a patron of the arts come to be? Why did it exist? And should we try to bring it back? patron (n.) “a lord-master, a protector,” c. 1300, from Old French patron “patron, protector, patron saint”…
Quote: Longing
If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people together to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the sea.Antoine De Saint-Exupery I’m not sure why this quote stuck with me. My mom used to read The Little Prince by Antoine De Saint-Exupery, to…
Made Up Words
The word sonder has crossed my path a few times. It’s not an officially recognized word by Webster’s standards… yet. But you might say, ain’t it just a matter of time? (Depending on your age and/or knowledge of linguistic history you might get that “ain’t” wasn’t recognized as a word by Webster even after being…
Earth Day Turns 50 with a Massive Livestream Event
Exciting to see this post come together. I’ll be watching the livestream where I can between work tasks! Hope you can participate too.
Blogging Thoughts
Okay, I work for WordPress.com, full disclosure, I have a lot of blogs. Some I use for testing, some for fun, some for ramblings that I never share, the list goes on for the reasons I have so many. But I’ve been starting to wonder why. Why do I have blogs for all these different…
The Concept of Beauty
There are a whole lot of ways to be perfect, and not one of them is attained through punishment. From the Essay Dogs, Cats, and Dancers, Thoughts about Beauty, by Ursula K. Le Guin In this essay, Usula not only talks about the concept of perfection, but also about society’s expectations of beauty, and how…
Ammonite Fossil Earrings, But Why?
I don’t often wear earrings anymore. I feel like I hardly ever leave the house anymore and when I do, it just doesn’t occur to me to put some on before I head out. I remember when I first got my ears pierced, in college, after I was 18, it was a big deal. I was…
Book Thoughts: Einstein’s Dreams
I recently reread Einsteins’ Dreams by Alan Lightman. I just can’t help but come back to it when I get to contemplating time and reality. It’s a fictional story, or set of short stories really, about what Einstein might have been dreaming about when he was working the patent office in Switzerland and developing his theory…
Book Thoughts: How to Change Your Mind
Not too long ago I finished Michael Pollan’s How to Change your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence. And it was awesome. I don’t have a better word for it. It really was great, fun to read, full of interesting info and stories. It was just…
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