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Below is text that AI generated. And I don’t like it. It’s not what I write, it’s not how I sound. So, this isn’t helping me. Well, that’s not really true. It is not good enough yet, but it does show promise. However, this is not the part I should outsorce to AI. My ideas is what defines me, I would think. So, then what can AI do for me? ...

I didn’t start exploring AI because it looked trendy or cool. I started because I had two thoughts that wouldn’t let go: This is going to change everything. I don’t want to miss this wave. No dramatic epiphany. No Silicon Valley-style revelation. Just a quiet, stubborn conviction: I don’t want to be an observer of the future — I want to participate in it. 🧱 A familiar pattern Every major shift in technology rewards the people who experiment early: ...

📚 Glossary 🧠 General Terms LLM (Large Language Model) A machine learning model trained on vast amounts of text data to understand and generate human-like language. Examples include ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Mistral. Token A unit of text (word, part of a word, or symbol) used by LLMs for processing language. Prompt A textual input given to an LLM to instruct or query it. Context Window The amount of text (in tokens) an LLM can consider at once. ...

I am doing a little experiment and at the moment of writing, I don’t know the outcome yet. First, I ask ChatGPT 4 the follwing (quite elaborate) question: I know there are a million different fitness apps out there and hardly any on eof them actually “works” in the sense that it automagically gets people to work out. So before even considering building something, we need to analyze what an app’s actual job is. ...

(And Not Lose My Mind in the Process) Let’s be honest. I’m not a monk meditating on a mountaintop. I’m not waking up at 5 a.m. for cold plunges and journaling. (Okay, I tried journaling once. Lost the notebook. Still looking for it.) What I am doing is trying to figure out something that’s been bugging me for a while: 👉 How can I use AI to lead a happier life? Because, if you’re anything like me, life can feel like a never-ending ping-pong game where you’re both players, the ball, and somehow also the table. ...

On this website, I have a bookcollection. All the books I have on my Kindle, are displayed here. Showing the cover, a summary, key takeaways. In addition to that, I have added tags to each book, so I can filter the collection and only show the books with that specific tag. However, these pages with books per tag are a lot more boring than the general collection of books, where we are showing all the covers. So, showing the books with covers on the filtered pages would be nice. But, when thinking about that, it seems that having the content for the book-information in a csv or a JSON is a lot more practical: easier to maintain and update, faster to display and filter. ...

Seizoen 2021. Een virtuele veiling. Op afstand, van achter de computer, een ploeg bij elkaar rapen. Ach, niet zo’n probleem, we zien elkaar allemaal later in het jaar wel weer. Misschien kunnen we wel met z’n allen naar een koers, dat hebben we in al die jaren eigenlijk nog nooit gedaan. Zometeen wordt het zomer, dan kunnen we met elkaar afspreken, elkaar weer zien. Het loopt anders. Waar we al jaren morbide grappen over maken, gebeurt plotseling echt. We zijn niet meer met vijftien. We missen iemand. Hij staat dan wel fier bovenaan, maar we horen niet dat hij met z’n gezondheid tobt. ...

Why not create shortcuts/shell scripts to open a project, similar to the script to create a new post? I could make it so that if I want to open a project, I cd into the directory belonging to the project, activate the environment and start up a server. I could even make it so that all projects start a server on their own port, so multiple projects could have a simultaneously running server. ...