Tinta Viva – The Logic of the Absurd
This time we imagine we are talking to Time, but not in an abstract way, as a character.
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Agent Skills – Install is the Easy Half
The skills CLI gives agent tooling package-manager ergonomics in a single line, and it is very good at it. Removal is another matter. Deleting the folder by hand does not do what you think, and… Read More »Agent Skills – Install is the Easy Half
Tinta Viva – Psychology and Disillusionment
This week, we talked about Flaubert and Mme Bovary. The task this time was to “reveal a character’s psychology and disillusionment through the contrast between their expectations and their reality”
Four models shipped – news is elsewhere
Four frontier models shipped in nine days and none of them was the story. The week’s real news was a licence clause, a terminated contract, a turbine blade queue and a memory store an attacker… Read More »Four models shipped – news is elsewhere
Tinta Viva – Monologue
Here we go, first task for the Tinta Viva workshop . Take one of the phrases taken from the Odyssey and use it to create a monologue.
Tinta Viva: Writing Between Two Languages
Tinta Viva: Writing Between Two Languages. A writing workshop to explore language(s).
The Box Arrived – Advanced Data Science and Analytics is here
A box I did not order, containing a book I did write. The second edition of “Advanced Data Science and Analytics with Python” landed yesterday. Rebuilt, not reprinted. Code generation is nearly free; judgement is… Read More »The Box Arrived – Advanced Data Science and Analytics is here
Now Reading: Proof
Mathematical monsters, Gödel’s constitutional loophole, and modelling a pandemic with the clock running. Kucharski’s Proof is about the gap between being right and being believed.
What Does It Take to Fly? – A Children’s Book
On writing for children, the four forces of flight, and why understanding something never makes it smaller. My book “What Does It Take to Fly?” is out now on Apple Books in English and Spanish… Read More »What Does It Take to Fly? – A Children’s Book
GenAI and On the Well-Posedness of Prompts
The prompt-engineering economy sold the wrong lesson. A model is not limited by the cleverness of your questions but by the completeness of your instructions. On Hadamard well-posedness, Deep Thought’s entirely correct and entirely useless… Read More »GenAI and On the Well-Posedness of Prompts