{"id":5356,"date":"2025-03-17T18:19:47","date_gmt":"2025-03-18T01:19:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/?p=5356"},"modified":"2025-03-17T18:19:47","modified_gmt":"2025-03-18T01:19:47","slug":"odd-lots-355","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/?p=5356","title":{"rendered":"Odd Lots"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Stumbled on this by accident: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@essensbooksummaries\" target=\"_blank\">A YouTube group that offers audio book summaries\/reviews<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=L-w1iWlrPRY\" target=\"_blank\">doing their thing on my x64 assembly book<\/a>. Short listen (2:40), and not a bad summary for such a short clip.<\/li>\n<li>And while we\u2019re talking YouTube, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vENGNNqRKqE\" target=\"_blank\">here\u2019s a podcast interview with me now on YouTube<\/a>, during which I talk about all kinds of things with Jim Lawless.<\/li>\n<li>I recently discovered British classical composer Doreen Carwithen 1922-2003, and on the eve of St. Patrick\u2019s Day, allow me to suggest the third movement of her Suffolk Suite, composed in 1964. Although nominally a tune for Morris dancers, Suffolk Suite III has a decidedly Irish air about it. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=QughemUiCSA\" target=\"_blank\">It\u2019s on YouTube<\/a>, as are the other movements of the suite if you\u2019re interested.<\/li>\n<li>Carol and I attend St. Patrick\u2019s parish here in Scottsdale, and every Friday during Lent they have a fish fry in the parish hall. The fish was excellent, and I allowed myself to eat the fries that came with it, carbs though they be. (Once a week won\u2019t kill me.) One of the parish volunteers wore a green T-shirt with \u201cPat on the back\u201d printed in front, and an old portrait of St. Patrick himself reproduced (in white) on the back. Clever enough for a giggle or two. Again, the food was great and we sat at a table with friends, talking about all sorts of things.<\/li>\n<li>Michael Covington sent me a link to <a href=\"https:\/\/writings.stephenwolfram.com\/2023\/02\/what-is-chatgpt-doing-and-why-does-it-work\/\" target=\"_blank\">an article by Stephen Wolfram<\/a> in which he explains what ChatGPT is doing and how it works. It\u2019s not cutting-edge, having been published in early 2023, but it\u2019s a good place to start if you want to know what\u2019s inside the concept of large language models (LLMs).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stumbled on this by accident: A YouTube group that offers audio book summaries\/reviews, doing their thing on my x64 assembly book. Short listen (2:40), and not a bad summary for such a short clip. And while we\u2019re talking YouTube, here\u2019s a podcast interview with me now on YouTube, during which I talk about all kinds [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-noneoftheabove"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5356"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5357,"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5356\/revisions\/5357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}