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If you're on your phone before bed, you're in a state of hypnosis. You're being told how to think. [..] We read books before bed to prime our brains for better sleep. As our brain transforms words into images, we approach a state of meditation.
Read Before Bed
Tom Sachs
Everyone is talking about Retrieval Augmented Generation, but most companies don't actually *have* any internal documentation worth retrieving. Fix. Your. Shit.
I Will Fucking Piledrive You if You Mention AI Again
mataroa.blog
Interlace is “the device of interweaving of a number of different themes … all distinct and yet inseparable.” The device is thought to have originated with Ovid. Denis Feeny in his introduction to Ovid’s Metamorphoses, notes that the “haphazard chain of association is entertaining, but it also reinforces the Ovidian theme of the very contingency of connectedness.”
Crossing the Sunshine Skyway
Robin Sloan
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