Musings on Dance, Food, Geek Stuff
Some friends last night were complaining about all the outrageous things that this administration is doing that feel like an accelerating slide toward fascism. “I just want to just hide and play with my phone and pretend it isn’t happening,” one friend said. “That’s how they win,” I argued. “Yeah, but how do you stay…
I got the results back from an MRI scan I had done a couple of weeks ago at UCSF, as part of a long COVID study I’m participating in. I don’t have the knowledge to interpret the findings, but the scans of my brain are pretty fascinating to look at. It’s hard to believe that…
The year 2025 was a year of sad endings, but also some exciting new beginnings. Let’s start with the good stuff. Relationship Status Change! In the “wins” column, I started seeing someone in August! In the midst of all the hits I took this year, finding a kind, fun, beautiful girlfriend is the big boost…
I used the LLM Claude to “vibe code” a simple game using basic prompts. Here is the result. Quick Thoughts: The larger issue is that while this kind of works, it is a terrible game, and I don’t know enough about coding to be able fix or improve it. So while this LLM can produce…
I prompted Claude AI to build this for me. Let’s see if it works. This version is hosted on Claude itself. Here’s another version I hosted on Netlify.
I enjoyed more than I expected Dr. Fei-Fei Li’s book The Worlds I See, a chronicle of one scientist’s research into the emergent field of artificial intelligence. The most moving sections for me were Dr. Fei-fei’s personal story as a young Chinese immigrant, trying to navigate through American society with her family. There was a…
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From Call of the Bone Ships by R.J. Barker She looked down at the white boards of the deck. “Maybe that is the true nature of prophecy – we can only change what is within our reach. So do not worry about the gullaime, do not worry about their prophecy. Hold close those you care…
Full Disclosure: I work for a news organization and I don’t actively follow the news. I am a media literacy educator at the local public media station KQED. I love my job and I’m proud of our hard working journalists covering the stories that matter for the Bay Area and beyond. But when I’m not…
For the past two years I have been trying to get up the courage to do the legendary San Francisco Friday Night Skate. Last night I finally did it… and I didn’t die! (I did fall a couple of times.) It was the 69th birthday of my friend and FNS organizer Lainie that got me…