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If writing amounted to, as Walter Ong once put it, the technologizing of the word (and print its mechanization), then large language models amount to the mathematization of the word.
Language Under Digital Conditions: Power and Action
Language Under Digital Conditions: Power and Action
L. M. Sacasas
The skill of self-reflection has three main components: the awareness of how I am supported by others, the awareness of the balance (or imbalance) between my giving and receiving, and the awareness of how I impact on the world around me.
A Natural Approach to Mental Wellness
Gregg Krech
One thing that is important about the exercise is that it is focused on the current day. If you just list three things you are grateful for in general, then every day you will have the same list. For example, one person who took me up on the challenge posted “My health, my husband, my kids” every day. By making it specific to today, you force your brain to reflect on all the positives that you have recently experienced, putting activity into the left side of your prefrontal cortex. And this is the whole point.
The Art of Taking It Easy
Brian King
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